Innovation, Uncertainty, and FMEA-MIC and FCP-MIC

Abstract The main target of any failure modes, effects, causes, and analysis (FMEA) is (or must be) to understand the way(s) by which the failure has happened and the mechanisms involved. Why we bother to do that? Obviously because, we do not want the same thing to happen again and failures repeat themselves over and over again. It is by following this path of reasoning that it will make sense to focus upon the issues we will very briefly just touch in this abstract. The concepts to be discussed in this chapter are not of the kinds we have covered so far. In this chapter, we will talk about what is needed by research and engineering community members to completely understand the present and future of FMEA and measures to control or prevent failures in which microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) plays an integral, cardinal role. In this chapter, we will talk about the algorithm of innovation and invention, the uncertainties involved in MIC and how they can be addressed in a mathematical way, the role that human factors in addition to technical factors can play in control and prevention of MIC-induced failures and how the issue of environmental impacts of MIC can be managed by copying from fashion industry, and adaption of it into MIC treatment strategies as well as the role that must be taken over by all industrialists and researchers alike to emphasize upon the impacts by which MIC treatments are highly potential to do harm to the environment. In addition, we want to examine how future looks like for FMEA where we will present a Future studies model to accommodate corrosion in a management grand-plan and then with the use of research done on particular cases related to the future of MIC research and treatment as well as understanding the involved mechanisms, we will answer to the question if what is to be done for the future of FMEA will be a move of paradigm shift nature such as exploring a new city or rather a “sightseeing” approach where much effort is given to explore the corners and places of an already explored city.