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FMEA in design for service

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posted on 2017-09-21, 15:20 authored by Keith Case, Amin Nor
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is discussed as a tool to share diagnostic knowledge between Engineering and Field Service, as a possible means of implementing Design for Service. Designers are assisted in developing diagnostic service tools alongside the design early in the design process rather than this being a post-production activity. Additional benefits are gained from improved accuracy of the FMEA and the maintenance of up-to-date product knowledge. An object-oriented FMEA model has been expanded to generate the FMEA elements and diagnostic FMEA. The use of an object-oriented FMEA environment and FMEA object libraries promotes the reuse of existing information and has increased data availability for the diagnostic tool development. The Diagnostic Service Tool (DST) is an extended application from the automated FMEA generation. Existing failure mode data is used to determine further characteristics of part failures. As a result, a prototype tool in the form of diagnostic software was created and evaluated in a field service application using four automatic transmission problem cases. The results showed that there was significant difference in repair times between the conventional repair manuals and DST. The research has demonstrated that the prototype software is successful in providing effective field service centered tools and in turn a method of providing feedback to the designer. This knowledge sharing between Engineering and Field Service provides a significant improvement in product development.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Twenty-fourth International Manufacturing Conference, IMC24 'Manufacturing: Focus on the Future', the Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Manufacturing Conference, IMC24

Volume

2

Pages

687 - 694

Citation

CASE, K. and NOR, A., 2007. FMEA in design for service. IN: Proceedings of 2007 24th International Manufacturing Conference (IMC24): manufacturing: focus on the future, Waterford, Ireland, 20-30 August 2007, vol. 2, pp.687-694.

Publisher

Waterford Institute of Technology

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2007

ISBN

0955646804;9780955646805

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Language

  • en

Location

Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

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