Fuzzy risk evaluation in failure mode and effects analysis using a D numbers based multi-sensor information fusion method

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Abstract

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a useful tool to define, identify, and eliminate potential failures or errors so as to improve the reliability of systems, designs, and products. Risk evaluation is an important issue in FMEA to determine the risk priorities of failure modes. There are some shortcomings in the traditional risk priority number (RPN) approach for risk evaluation in FMEA, and fuzzy risk evaluation has become an important research direction that attracts increasing attention. In this paper, the fuzzy risk evaluation in FMEA is studied from a perspective of multi-sensor information fusion. By considering the non-exclusiveness between the evaluations of fuzzy linguistic variables to failure modes, a novel model called D numbers is used to model the non-exclusive fuzzy evaluations. A D numbers based multi-sensor information fusion method is proposed to establish a new model for fuzzy risk evaluation in FMEA. An illustrative example is provided and examined using the proposed model and other existing method to show the effectiveness of the proposed model.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2086
JournalSensors
Volume17
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Sep 2017

Keywords

  • D numbers
  • Dempster-shafer evidence theory
  • Failure mode and effects analysis
  • Fuzzy risk evaluation
  • Fuzzy uncertainty
  • Multi-sensor information fusion

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