Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a safety and reliability analysis tool widely used for the identification of system/process potential failures, their causes and consequences. When aimed at the failure modes prioritization, FMEA is named Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). In the latter case, failure modes are commonly prioritized by means of the Risk Priority Number (RPN) that has been widely criticized to have several shortcomings. Firstly, in the presence of multiple experts supplying different and uncertain judgments on risk parameters, RPN is not able to deal with such a kind of information. Therefore, the present paper proposes the Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) of evidence as a proper mathematical framework to deal with the epistemic uncertainty often affecting the input evaluations on risk parameters. In particular, such evaluations are supposed to be elicited from experts in an interval or crisp form, and then opportunely propagated to obtain a multiple-values characterization of the RPN associated with each analyzed failure mode. In order to synthesize the available information and make them useful for failure mode's prioritization aims, Belief and Plausibility distributions are used. The methodology is finally applied to the propulsion system of a fishing vessel operating in Sicily.
Certa, A., Hopps, F., Inghilleri, R., La Fata, C. (2017). A Dempster-Shafer Theory-based approach to the Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) under epistemic uncertainty: application to the propulsion system of a fishing vessel. RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY, 159, 69-79 [10.1016/j.ress.2016.10.018].
A Dempster-Shafer Theory-based approach to the Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) under epistemic uncertainty: application to the propulsion system of a fishing vessel
CERTA, Antonella;HOPPS, Fabrizio;INGHILLERI, Roberta;LA FATA, Concetta Manuela
2017-01-01
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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a safety and reliability analysis tool widely used for the identification of system/process potential failures, their causes and consequences. When aimed at the failure modes prioritization, FMEA is named Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). In the latter case, failure modes are commonly prioritized by means of the Risk Priority Number (RPN) that has been widely criticized to have several shortcomings. Firstly, in the presence of multiple experts supplying different and uncertain judgments on risk parameters, RPN is not able to deal with such a kind of information. Therefore, the present paper proposes the Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) of evidence as a proper mathematical framework to deal with the epistemic uncertainty often affecting the input evaluations on risk parameters. In particular, such evaluations are supposed to be elicited from experts in an interval or crisp form, and then opportunely propagated to obtain a multiple-values characterization of the RPN associated with each analyzed failure mode. In order to synthesize the available information and make them useful for failure mode's prioritization aims, Belief and Plausibility distributions are used. The methodology is finally applied to the propulsion system of a fishing vessel operating in Sicily.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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