A Fuzzy Hybrid Approach for Fuzzy Process FMEA: An Application to a Spindle Manufacturing Process

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10.1080/18756891.2012.718104How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Fuzzy Process FMEA, Fuzzy AHP, Fuzzy TOPSIS, Manufacturing process

Abstract

Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) concept, has been developed based on the success of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to include a broader analysis team for the realization of a comprehensive analysis in a short time. The most common use of the PFMEA involves manufacturing processes as they are required to be closely examined against any unnatural deviation in the state of the process for producing products with consistent quality. In a typical FMEA, for each failure modes, three risk factors; severity (), occurrence (), and detectability () are evaluated and their multiplication derives the risk priority number (RPN). However there are many shortcomings of this classical crisp RPN calculation. This study introduces a fuzzy hybrid approach that allows experts to use linguistic variables for determining , , and for PFMEA by applying fuzzy ‘technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution’ (TOPSIS) and fuzzy ‘analytical hierarchy process’ (AHP). An application to a spindle manufacturing process expresses the relevance of the fuzzy hybrid model in PFMEA.

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mehmet Ekmekçioğlu
AU  - Ahmet Can Kutlu
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012/08/01
TI  - A Fuzzy Hybrid Approach for Fuzzy Process FMEA: An Application to a Spindle Manufacturing Process
JO  - International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
SP  - 611
EP  - 626
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
SN  - 1875-6883
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/18756891.2012.718104
DO  - 10.1080/18756891.2012.718104
ID  - Ekmekçioğlu2012
ER  -