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The FTOPSIS method to support FMECA analyses

Silvia CarpitellaA. CertaG. GalanteJ. IzquierdoC. M. La Fata

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Safety-critical analysis FMECA FTOPSIS AHP

description

This paper proposes an approach based on multi-criteria decisional methods to manage the results derived from reliability analyses. In detail, this paper proposes ranking the failure modes of a system when analyzed with failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) using the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solutions (TOPSIS). To better manage the uncertainty of evaluations made under the differing criteria, the TOPSIS method is applied in its fuzzy version (FTOPSIS). When the method is applied to a case study, the results highlight the main possible critical faults and supply fundamental information to take into account during the scheduling of maintenance actions

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