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A new application of an evolving tree to failure mode and effect analysis methodology
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a popular safety and reliability analysis methodology for examining potential failure modes of products, process, designs, or services, in a wide range of industries. Despite its popularity, there are a number of limitations of FMEA, and two highlighted issues are the bulky FMEA form and its intricacy of use. To overcome these shortcomings, we introduce the idea of visualisation pertaining to the failure modes or control actions in FMEA. A visualisation model with an incremental learning feature, i.e., the evolving tree (ETree), is adopted to allow the failure modes or control actions in FMEA to be clustered and visualized. The failure modes or control actions are grouped and visualized with consideration of their Severity, Occurrence, and Detection scores. Our proposed approach allows the failure modes or control actions to be mapped into a tree structure for visualisation. The devised approach is evaluated with a benchmark problem. The experiments show that the control actions of FMEA can be visualised through the tree structure, which provides a quick and easily understandable platform of the FMEA spreadsheet to facilitate decision making tasks.
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Neural information processing : 21st International Conference ICONIP 2014 Kuching, Malaysia, November 3-6, 2014 Proceedings, Part IIIVolume
8836Series
Lecture notes in computer scienceChapter number
51Pagination
415 - 422Publisher
Springer VerlagPlace of publication
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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0302-9743eISSN
1611-3349ISBN-13
9783319126425Language
engPublication classification
B Book chapter; B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2014, Springer VerlagExtent
83Editor/Contributor(s)
K Loo, K Yap, K Wong, A Teoh, K HuangUsage metrics
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