A Correlation Model Based Failure Mode Analysis Method for Mechatronics Systems

Abstract:

Failure mode analysis formechatronics systems has many problems in real applications in terms of excessivedependency on experience, lack of uniform description and tedious analysis work. In order to increaseits effectiveness, an automatic failure modes analysis framework is constructedand an extended fuzzy cognitive map is used as a reasoning technique toanalysis the effect of the failures. A function-failure correlation model witha standard description is adopted to describe the relationship between failuremodes and functions, so that designers and engineers from different fields cancomprehend and communicate within the same framework. Functional flows andfailure modes are defined as basic concepts in the fuzzy cognitive map, whichprovides an easy way to carry out an automatic cause and effect reasoning.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 727-728)
• Pages: 637-640
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.727-728.637
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Ying Liu*, Zheng Hu, Shi Gang Zhang
• Keywords: Automatic FMEA, Failure Mode Analysis, Function-Failure Correlation Model, Mechatronics Systems

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