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Failure mode and effects analysis using intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid TOPSIS approach

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Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is an effective reliability analysis technique used to identify and evaluate potential failures in systems, products, processes, and/or designs. In traditional FMEA, prioritization of failure modes is carried out by utilizing risk priority numbers (RPNs), which can be acquired by the multiplication of three risk factors: occurrence (O), severity (S) and detection (D). However, there are some inherent deficiencies in the conventional RPN method, which affect its effectiveness and thus limit its applications. In response, this paper introduces a new modified TOPSIS method, named intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid TOPSIS approach, to determine the risk priorities of failure modes identified in FMEA. Moreover, both the subjective and objective weights of risk factors are taken into consideration in the process of risk and failure analysis. A product example of the color super twisted nematic is presented at last to demonstrate the potential applications of the proposed approach, and the merits are highlighted by comparing with some existing methods.

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The authors sincerely thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their insights and helpful comments and suggestions which are very helpful in improving the quality of the paper. This work was supported by the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71101087).

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of China

    Hu-Chen Liu, Jian-Xin You & Lu-Ning Shao

  2. School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, People’s Republic of China

    Hu-Chen Liu, Jian-Xin You & Meng-Meng Shan

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Liu, HC., You, JX., Shan, MM. et al. Failure mode and effects analysis using intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid TOPSIS approach. Soft Comput 19, 1085–1098 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1321-x

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