The Function-Failure Design Method

Stone, Robert B.; Tumer, Irem Y.; Wie, Michael Van

doi:10.1115/1.1862678

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“…Table 1 summarizes the likelihood and consequence calculations of the RED theory. These formulae are significant extensions of the function failure design method (FFDM) [19] shown by Eq. 1.…”

Section: The Risk In Early Design Methods (Red)mentioning

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Failure Prevention in Design Through Effective Catalogue Utilization of Historical Failure Events

Lough

Stone

Tumer

2008

J Fail. Anal. and Preven.

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The science of failure prevention relies heavily on the experience of personnel on a project. As the nation is about to face a tremendous decline in the experienced workforce due to the baby boomer generation's retirement, it is critical to begin focusing on capturing their knowledge. Cataloging and communicating the knowledge of potential failures is critical to prevent engineering disasters. Many companies have adopted failure-reporting systems that allow them to record their engineering failures to promote failure prevention. While recording this information is vital to learning from past mistakes, often the information is not stored so that engineers and designers can easily recall this valuable linguistic information and use it to improve designs. Therefore, more effective systems for cataloging and utilizing corporate memory of recorded failure events are needed. This article presents the design of a computational linguistic database to support the failure prevention tool, the risk in early design (RED) method. RED promotes failure prevention by identifying failure risks as early as the conceptual phase of product design, where impacts of failure prevention are greatest. It uses a database populated by historical failure event information to present specific areas that are at risk of failure in a product.

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Section: The Risk In Early Design Methods (Red)mentioning

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Failure Prevention in Design Through Effective Catalogue Utilization of Historical Failure Events

Lough

Stone

Tumer

2008

J Fail. Anal. and Preven.

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“…The purpose is to collect failure occurrences observed during the product life cycle and to take them into account during design stages of similar products. Joint to the key characteristics approach (Thornton, 1999), the FFD Method (Stone, Tumer, & Van Wie, 2005) and RED (Lough et al, 2006a) help designers to update their knowledge of functions and part failures . These works present a taxonomy of failures to bring to the attention of designers .…”

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The management of process control deployment using interactions in risks analyses

Bassetto

Siadat

Tollenaere

2011

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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“…System Engineering methods for functional allocation can be used to perform this step (INCOSE 2015). Functional Modeling method (Stone and Wood 2000;Hutcheson et al 2007) has the advantage of identifying possible failure modes (Tumer and Stone 2003;Stone et al 2005) that can also be used as a basis for analysis of the impact of disruptions with SODA.…”

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Supporting design via the System Operational Dependency Analysis methodology

Guariniello

DeLaurentis

2016

Res Eng Design

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In this paper, we introduce the system operational dependency analysis methodology. Its purpose is to assess the effect of dependencies between components in a monolithic complex system, or between systems in a system-of-systems, and to support design decision making. We propose a parametric model of the behavior of the system. This approach results in a simple, intuitive model, whose parameters give a direct insight into the causes of observed, and possibly emergent, behavior. Using the proposed method, designers, and decision makers can quickly analyze and explore the behavior of complex systems and evaluate different architecture under various working conditions. Thus, the system operational dependency analysis method supports educated decision making both in the design and in the update process of systems architecture, without the need to execute extensive simulations. In particular, in the phase of concept generation and selection, the information given by the method can be used to identify promising architectures to be further tested and improved, while discarding architectures that do not show the required level of global features. Application of the proposed method to a small example is used to demonstrate both the validation of the parametric model, and the capabilities of the method for system analysis, design and architecture.

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The Function-Failure Design Method

Cited by 142 publications

References 14 publications

Failure Prevention in Design Through Effective Catalogue Utilization of Historical Failure Events

Failure Prevention in Design Through Effective Catalogue Utilization of Historical Failure Events

The management of process control deployment using interactions in risks analyses

Supporting design via the System Operational Dependency Analysis methodology

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