A New Two-Stage Fuzzy Inference System-Based Approach to Prioritize Failures in Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 869-877

  Jee, Tze Ling ^a   Tay, Kai Meng ^a   Lim, Chee Peng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Failure mode and effect analysis; fuzzy inference system; Fuzzy rule reduction; monotonicity property; similarity reasoning

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAILURE MODES; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; FUZZY RULE REDUCTION; MONOTONICITY PROPERTY; SIMILARITY REASONING;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 85027942684     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2015.2420300     Document Type: Article

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