Abstract: Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used risk assessment tool for defining, identifying, and eliminating potential failures or problems in products, process, designs, and services. In traditional FMEA, the risk priorities of failure modes are determined by using risk priority numbers (RPNs), which can be obtained by multiplying the scores of risk factors like occurrence (O), severity (S), and detection (D). However, the crisp RPN method has been criticized to have several deficiencies. In this paper, linguistic variables, expre...
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Topics: 
Reliability engineering
Risk analysis (engineering)
Data mining