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Failure mode and effects analysis(FMEA) is popular approach applied to examine potential failures in equipment designs and maintenance of equipments. Risk Priority Number(RPN) is used as an index for the criticality of fault modes in FMEA and RCM(reliability centered maintenance). Traditional RPN approach does not have much credit as a index for the criticality because it does not reflect their experience and the governing logic is apart from their knowledge. Multiple Criteria Decision Method(MCDM) is a proven approach applied to evaluate multiple conflicting criteria in decision making. MCDM can be applied as a tool for RPN evaluation. This study was carried out to investigate application of Analytical Hierarchy Process(AHP) in evaluating RPN.

This study analyzed a 3kW UPS, used in a laboratory, by presenting three assemblies—an AC-DC rectifier, a DC-AC inverter, and sensors/cooling fans—and 13 constituent components. For each component, potential failure modes were derived, with their causes and effects described at the component level. Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Risk Priority Numbers (RPNs) were calculated. The RPN analysis identified two capacitors, one IGBT, one battery, and three cooling fans as key problematic components. Capacitors and cooling fans were prioritized for immediate improvement. Specifically, current aluminum electrolytic capacitors required replacement with film capacitors due to their longer lifespan and more stable performance. For cooling fans, voltage-controlled DC fans, often problematic at low speeds, necessitated replacement with PWM fans, which offer stable rotation and easy speed control. The remaining IGBT and battery components were decided to be retained as they were difficult to replace. This study's findings are broadly applicable to ensuring the safety of daily necessities, preventing industrial accidents, and enhancing school safety.

Purpose: This study was done to apply failure mode & effect analysis (FMEA) to chemotherapy in order to reduce prescribing, dispensing and administering errors related to treatment and provide patients with a safe medical environment. Methods: A one group pre-post test design was used to verify the effects using the tool for FMEA in chemotherapy. Results: There was a statistically significant decrease in prescribing errors from 11.47% to 3.18%; administering errors decreased but they were not statistically significant. In a addition, there was no change in dispensing errors. Conclusion: The results show that FMEA removed risk factors that might occur during the process of chemotherapy and that it was an effective tool for prevention of negligent accident occurring in actual patients.

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to provide patients with safe preoperative preparatory procedures by removing any risk factors from the preparatory procedures by using failure mode and effects analysis, which is a prospective risk-managing tool. Methods: This was a research design in which before and after conditions of a single group were studied, Failure mode and effects analysis were applied for the preparatory procedures done before operations. Results: The preparation omission rate before the operation decreased from 2.70% to 0.04%, and operation cancellation rate decreased from 0.48% to 0.08%. Conclusion: Failure mode and effects analysis which remove any risk factors for patients in advance of the operation is effective in preventing any negligent accidents.

This paper elaborates the significance of scenario planning in risk management, and presents an integrated approach which takes into account the 'Risk Events' derived from scenario planning for risk prioritisation. This research integrates scenario planning with Risk Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (RFMEA) through examples from construction litigations of project schedule and cost overrun cases as a simplified approach to project risk management. The proposed methodology incorporates scenarios developed from realistic events of dispute and arbitration cases from construction projects, and thereby increasing potential to foresee risks and their effects well in advance. The results from this methodology shall be validated against outcome of survey study conducted by KPMG-PMI (2013) on project schedule and cost overruns that was based on Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) Project Monitoring data for 2012-13.

국내 알루미늄 산업에서 압출공정은 생산량 기준 40% 이상의 비중을 차지하고 있는 주요 공정이다. 국내 알루미늄 압출업체 대부분이 30년 이상 된 노후 설비를 이용하여 생산하고 있기 때문에 제품 정밀도 및 품질 저하, 낮은 생산성 등의 문제를 격고 있다. 압출 설비는 한번 도입하면 주요 부품의 마모 또는 파손 발생 전에는 설비를 교체하지 않는 구조로 신규 설비에 비해 생산성 감소 및 불량률이 증가하기 때문에 설비의 유지 관리가 중요하다. 노후 압출기는 부품의 도면이 소실된 경우가 많아 현장에서 적절한 보수가 어렵고 유지 관리를 위한 기술력 부재로 인해 재제조에 어려움을 겪고 있기 때문에 해체 단계에서부터 체계적인 재제조 방안이 고안되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 노후 압출설비의 재제조를 위해 재제조 고장모드 영향분석 방법을 고안하였다. 부품에 대한 재제조 대상 부품의 파손에 대한 심각도, 압출 공정 중 고장/파손에 따른 수명 그리고 재제조에 따른 자원순환의 가치를 고려하여 위험우선순위를 산정하고 재제조 대상을 선정하였다. 노후 압출기의 재제조 공정의 표준화 정립을 위해 노후 압출기의 구조에 따른 모듈 및 부품에 대한 분석 등을 통해 재제조 고장모드 영향분석을 수행하였으며 부품별 우선순위를 선정하여 자원순환의 효율성 및 제품 품질 안정화를 위한 재제조 연구를 수행하였다.

In the domestic aluminum industry, the extrusion process is a major process accounting for more than 40% of the total production. However, most domestic aluminum extrusion companies produce aluminum using old equipment that is more than 30 years old. Extrusion press is when the equipment is not replaced before the wear and breakage of major parts occur, reducing productivity and increasing the defect rate compared to new equipment. The old extrusion press often loses part drawings, so it is difficult to repair them properly on-site and to remanufacture them due to the lack of technical skills for maintenance. Therefore, a systematic remanufacturing plan must be designed from dismantling the equipment. In this study, remanufacturing FMEA was devised to remanufacture old extrusion press. The risk priority was analyzed by considering the degree of damage to the recycled parts, the cycle due to breakage/damage during the extrusion process, and the value of recycling resources due to remanufacturing. To standardize the remanufacturing process, remanufactured FMEA was performed through part analysis according to the structural analysis of the extrusion press. In addition, remanufacturing priorities were selected for each part, while remanufacturing itself was studied for efficiency of resource circulation and product quality stabilization.

근접방사선치료는 일반적으로 외부방사선치료와 병행하여 수행되고 치료단계가 매우 복잡하며 이로 인해 방사선 사고가 발생될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 이를 해결하기 위해 근접방사선치료에 사고유형과 영향 분석(Failure mode and effects analysis, FMEA) 방법을 적용하여 프로세스 맵을 구성하고 이를 기반으로 각 치료단계에 대한 위해도를 산출하였다. 프로세스 맵은 "외래 및 진료"와 "근접방사선 모의치료", "CT 모의 치료", "근접방사선치료계획", "방사선치료"로 총 5단계로 구성하였으며, 각 치료단계를 세분화하여 세부단계를 작성하였다. 위해도를 산출하기 위해 의사와 의학물리사, 선량설계사, 방사선사, 간호사가 참여하여 세부단계마다 발생빈도와 심각도, 불검출도를 평가하였다. 전반적으로 프로세스 맵은 각 치료단계마다 환자 신원 확인 절차가 우선적으로 수행되며, 이는 다른 환자로 오인하여 서로 다른 치료계획이 수립되어 방사선사고가 발생될 우려가 있다. 프로세스 맵을 기반으로 작성한 세부단계에 대해 위해도를 평가한 결과, 전반적으로 "외래 및 진료"와 "근접방사선치료계획" 과정이 높은 위해도로 평가되었다. 직종마다 평가한 위해도는 서로 다른 경향을 보였으며, 간호사는 방사선치료를 제외한 모든 과정이 55점 이상의 위해도를 보였으며, "근접방사선 모의치료" 과정이 88.8점으로 가장 높았다. 방사선치료를 수행하는 의료기관마다 치료단계가 다소 차이가 있으므로 해당 기관에 대한 프로세스 맵을 작성하고 위해도를 산출하여 중점관리 항목을 집중적으로 리스크 관리가 수행되어야 할 것으로 생각된다.

Brachytherapy is generally performed in conjunction with external radiation therapy, and the treatment course is very complicated, which can lead to radiation accidents. In order to solve this problem, we designed the process map by applying the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) method to the Brachytherapy and scored the risk priority number (RPN) for each treatment course based on this process map. The process map consisted of five steps, Patient consulting", "Brachytherapy simulation", "CT simulation", "Brachytherapy treatment planning" and "Treatment". In order to calculate the RPN, doctor, medical physicist, dose planners, therapist, and nurse participated in the study and evaluated occurrence, severity, and lack of detectability at each detail step. Overall, the process map is preceded by a patient identification procedure at each treatment stage, which can be mistaken for another patient, and a different treatment plan may be established to cause a radiation accident. As a result of evaluating the RPN for the detailed steps based on the process map, overall "Patient consulting" and "Brachytherapy treatment planning" step were evaluated as high risk. The nurses showed a tendency to be different from each other, and the nurses had a risk of 55 points or more for all the procedures except "Treatment", and the "Brachytherapy simulation" step was the highest with 88.8 points. Since the treatment stage differs somewhat for each medical institution performing radiotherapy, it is thought that the risk management should be performed intensively by preparing the process map for each institution and calculating the risk RPN.

산업체에서 이미 보편화되어 온 FMEA기법의 목적은 발생가능성이 있는 하자형태를 파악하고, 고객에게 미칠 고장 발생 요인을 우선 순위별로 사전에 제거하도록 이행하는 예방조치의 한 수단이다. FMEA는 초기 단계(Design 개념 설정시)에서 작성하는 Design FMEA와 양산되기 전에 시기 적절하게 작성하는 Process FMEA의 두 종류가 있다. (설계기능이 없는 공급자에게는 Process FMEA만 해당) 본 연구에서는 Process FMEA를 건설업의 시공분야에 적용하여 품질향상의 신뢰성을 높이고 Life Cycle Analysis, Risk Analysis 등의 기초자료로 활용이 가능한 기본자료(DATA)를 축적할 수 있는 방안을 연구하였다.

The aim of FMEA method which is already generalized in the industry engineering is to grasp a possibility that defect forms will appear. And it is a means of prevention step to let person remove obstacles which have an influence on customers beforehand in order. The two parts of FMEA are Design FMEA which we prepare in an early stage and Process FMEA which we prepare in time previous to mass production. This Study apply Process FMEA to execution fields of the construction industry.

현대 과학기술의 발달과 더불어 생산되는 제품들은 점차 고도화·복잡화되고, 제품의 결함 또는 제품으로 인한 사고 원인을 소비자 스스로 밝혀내는 것이 거의 불가능하게 되었다. 따라서 제조물의 안전에 대한 우선적인 입증책임을 기업에게 요구하는 제조물책임법이 선진국에서 시행되었고, 최근 소비자의 권익 보호제도 확충으로 제조물에 대한 책임이 엄격화, 광범위화 되었으며, 유럽연합과 일본의 제조물책임법을 근간으로 제정한 국내의 제조물책임법이 2002년 7월 시행되었다.(중략)

본 연구에서는 고체 로켓 추진 기관의 신뢰성 분석을 위해 준-정량적 FMECA를 수행하였다. 준-정량적 FMECA는 고장모드 및 영향 분석(FMEA)과 치명도 분석(CA)를 포함하는 분석 기법으로서, FMECA 수행을 위해서 FMEA는 고체 로켓 추진 기관을 43개의 부품으로 나누어 각 부품에 대하여 도출된 총 137개의 고장모드에 대해 수행하였다. 또한 일부 고장모드의 고장률 데이터를 이용하여 치명도 분석을 수행하였다. 준-정량적 FMECA 수행을 통하여 고체 로켓 추진 기관의 각 부품에서 발생 할 수 있는 잠재적 고장모드와 고장원인 및 영향을 분석, 정리할 수 있었으며, 우선적인 개선 조치가 필요한 중요 고장모드를 확인할 수 있었다.

In this study, semiquantitative failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA) for the reliability analysis of a solid rocket propulsion system is performed. The semiquantitative FMECA is composed of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and criticality analysis (CA). To perform FMECA, the structure of the solid rocket propulsion system is divided into 43 parts down to the component level, and FMEA is conducted at the design stage considering 137 potential failure modes. CA is then conducted for each failure mode, during which the criticality number is estimated using the failure rate databases. The results demonstrate the relationship between potential failure modes, causes, and effects, and their risk priorities are evaluated qualitatively. Additionally, several failure modes with higher criticality and severity values are selected for high-priority improvement.