Abstract: Fault analysis activity is very important for a flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) in the development phase. Fault tree analysis (FTA) and fault mode and effects analysis (FMEA) are widely used for fault analysis. However, they are time-consuming and expensive when fully implemented. In this paper, we propose an improving hybrid multilevel FTA-FMEA method that is the combination of the above two methods. The proposed method has a clear three-layer analysis structure. In the first layer, a system FTA of the FMC is performed to determine the funct...
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Reliability engineering