Title: A state of the art review of fuzzy approaches used in the failure modes and effects analysis: a call for research

Authors: Samuel Chrysostom; Ravi Kumar Dwivedi

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, MANIT, Bhopal, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, MANIT, Bhopal, India

Abstract: Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a methodology to evaluate a system, design or process or service for possible ways in which failures can occur. The conventional risk priority number (RPN) method has been criticised to have many deficiencies and many researchers have proposed many methods to overcome this problem. Various reviews have been done on the FMEA procedures and also the models proposed. The extensive reviews have narrowed down to the fuzzy logic used in the FMEA process. The reviews have finally concluded that fuzzy models are the most common methods that help in overcoming the drawbacks that are caused by traditional processes. Hence in this paper only the fuzzy methods used in failure modes and effects analysis have been reviewed. After this review the authors conclude that fuzzy TLBO can be used in decision making, which has previously not been used in this process.

Keywords: failure mode and effects analysis; FMEA; decision making; fuzzy TLBO; teaching learning based optimisation; fuzzy methods; fuzzy logic; failures; fuzzy modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2016.076868

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2016 Vol.23 No.3, pp.351 - 369

Received: 18 Jun 2014
Accepted: 03 Jul 2014
Published online: 05 Jun 2016 *

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