Application of Fuzzy Decision-Making Theory and Conflict-Resolution Method to Failure Mode and Effect Analysis of Industrial Valve

It is not objective to rate the decision-making factors in the traditional failure mode and effect analysis,so fuzzy semantic theory is used in this paper.Six fuzzy semantic scales and their corresponding semantics are summarized,and a defuzzification method is studied to obtain the fuzzy value table of the six fuzzy semantic scales.For the conflicts between experts in the traditional failure mode and effects analysis,a conflict-resolution algorithm is studied to obtain the failure risk order.Finally,a certain type of industrial valve is used as an example to prove the validity of the theory proposed in this paper.

Effect of Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis on Reducing Error Risk of Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition Solution Dispensing

[Objectives]To investigate the effect of healthcare failure mode and effect analysis(HFMEA)on reducing error risk of neonatal parenteral nutrition solution dispensing.[Methods]A research team was established to identify the failure mode(FM)in each link of the formulation process of neonatal parenteral nutrition solution by HFMEA,quantify the severity(S),occurrence(O)and detection(D)of FM,and evaluate FM by risk priority number(RPN).For FM with the values of RPN>16,failure cause analysis was conducted,and corresponding improvement measures were formulated.The weight coefficient and random consistency ratio(CR)of deployment process were calculated in Matlab R2018a by compiling the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)program.Six months after the implementation of improvement measures,the implementation effect was evaluated by comparing the changes of the values of RPN which was evaluated comprehensively and the rate of dispensing errors before and after the implementation of HFMEA.[Results]In the preparation process of neonatal parenteral nutrition solution,a total of 13 FMs with medium and above risk were found,the weight coefficient of medical order review,dosing and mixing was 0.2703,the weight coefficient of drug dispensing check and review was 0.1432,the weight coefficient of print label was 0.1015,the weight coefficient of distribution was 0.0716,and CR=0.0491<0.1.After six months of intervention,the total RPN value decreased by 64.81%from 127.8 to 45.0.The deployment error rates were significantly lower after the implementation,and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).[Conclusions]HFMEA can effectively reduce the error risk in preparation of neonatal parenteral nutrition solution,improve the quality of dispensing and promote the safety of neonatal medication.

Establishing simulation model for optimizing efficiency of CNC machine using reliability-centered maintenance approach

The objective of this work was to enhance the product’s quality by concentrating on the machine’s optimized efficiency.In order to increase the machine’s reliability,the basis of reliability-centered maintenance approach was utilized.The purpose was to establish a planned preventive maintenance strategy to identify the machine’s critical components having a noteworthy effect on the product’s quality.The critical components were prioritized using failure mode and effect analysis(FMEA).The goal of the study was to decrease the ppm time interval for a CNC machine by simulating the projected preventive maintenance time interval.For this purpose,the simulation software ProModel 7.5 was implemented for the current preventive maintenance procedure to choose the best ppm time interval which contributed better norms.Five dissimilar optimization approaches were applied,however,the first approach yielded the prominent total system cost and the shorter ppm interval.The results of the study revealed that there was an increase of USD 1878 as a result of an increase in total system cost from USD 78,365 to USD 80,243.Preventive maintenance costs were reduced from USD 4196 to USD 2248(46%).The costs associated with good parts increased from USD 8259 to USD 8294(0.4%)and the costs associated with defective parts reduced from USD 171 to USD 3(98.25%),respectively.

Fatigue Analysis of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cylinders for Safety Risk Assessment

With the widespread application of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG),the safety of LPG cylinder has received more and more attention.For the safety of LPG cylinder,we conduct a safety risk assessment of cylinder using the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) method.Taking the most influential inflatable fatigue under normal conditions as the research object,we use FE-safe software to analyze the fatigue failure.The risk compliance coefficients of various failure modes are calculated and classified according to the risk level.In this way,the service life of the LPG cylinder weld is determined.The presented method improves the safety risk assessment process of LPG cylinder and provides a good theoretical and practical basis for similar pressure vessel risk assessment.

An information fusion FMEA method to assess the risk of healthcare waste

Healthcare waste(HCW)management plays a vital role in the development of modern society.In HCW management,failure mode and effects analysis(FMEA)is a popular method to implement risk management for improving the quality of healthcare.However,the shortcomings of the traditional FMEA method have been widely discussed in literatures.This paper proposes an information fusion FMEA method based on 2-tuple linguistic information and interval probability.The 2-tuple linguistic set theory is adopted to change the heterogeneous information into interval numbers.Meanwhile,the interval probability comparison method is applied to analyze failure modes.Finally,a case study is presented to verify the reliability and effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing different FMEA methods.