Title: Development of software support for process FMEA: a case study

Authors: S. Karthik Bharathi; S. Vinodh; N. Gopi

Addresses: Department of Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli-620 015, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli-620 015, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli-620 015, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: The goal of this article is to present a study in which process failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is applied to analyse weld failures and a software support is developed for process FMEA. Process FMEA is concerned with prioritising failure mode of the process. In order to enable effective computation and analysis with process FMEA, a software support has been developed. The developed software support has been illustrated for weld failure analysis. The developed software support would enable the systematic computation and analysis of process related failure modes. The practical validity of the developed software support has been tested. The developed software support systematically prioritises and analyses the causes associated with weld failures.

Keywords: failure mode and effect analysis; FMEA; process FMEA; software support; failure modes; risk priority number; RPN; total quality management; TQM; weld failure.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2018.096164

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2018 Vol.31 No.4, pp.415 - 432

Received: 29 Feb 2016
Accepted: 16 Dec 2016
Published online: 15 Nov 2018 *

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