An FMEA analysis using grey theory and grey rough sets

Article history: Received February 16, 2013 Received in revised format 6 May 2013 Accepted May 7 2013 Available online May 8 2013 This paper presents a hybrid method for detecting the most important failure items as well as the most effective alternative strategy to cope with possible events. The proposed model of this paper uses grey technique to rank various alternatives and FMEA technique to find important faults. The implementation of the proposed method has been illustrated for an existing example on the literature. The results of this method show that the proposed model has been capable of detecting the most trouble making problems with fuzzy logic and finds the most important solution strategy using FMEA technique. © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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