Failure Mode and Effect Analysis using an integrated approach of clustering and MCDM under pythagorean fuzzy environment |
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Institution: | 1. School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, PR China;2. Management School, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, PR China;1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur: 721302, West Bengal, India;2. CoE in Safety Engineering and Analytics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur: 721302, West Bengal, India;3. Thiagarajar School of Management (TSM) Madurai, Madurai: 625005, Tamil Nadu, India |
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Abstract: | Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is an effective risk analysis and failure avoidance approach in the design, process, services, and system. With all its benefits, FMEA has three limitations: failure mode risk assessment and prioritization, complex FMEA worksheets, and difficult application of FMEA tables. This paper seeks to overcome the shortcomings of FMEA using an integrated approach based on a developed Pythagorean fuzzy (PF) k-means clustering algorithm and a popular MCDM method called PF-VIKOR. In the first step, Pythagorean fuzzy numbers (PFNs) were used to collect Severity (S), Occurrence (O), and Detection (D) factors for failure modes to incorporate uncertainty and fuzziness into subjective judgments. Afterward, failure modes were clustered by developing a novel k-means clustering algorithm that accepts PFNs as input. Finally, the PF-VIKOR approach was used to analyze the ordering of cluster risks. The proposed approach was implemented in the dehydration unit of an Iranian gas refinery and the results were compared with the traditional FMEA. The findings showed the flexibility and applicability of the proposed approach in addressing real-world problems. This research provides two key contributions: (1) designing a PFN-based k-means clustering algorithm that tackles FMEA limitations and (2) using the PF-VIKOR method for prioritizing and evaluating failure mode clusters. |
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Keywords: | Failure mode and effect analysis Pythagorean fuzzy numbers Clustering algorithm PF-VIKOR Gas refinery |
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