Risk assessment using FMEA to identify potential risks of positive displacement pump failure in aluminum industry: A case study

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Authors

Hamid Ahmadi¹ , Meysam Esmaeilzadeh² , Abolfazl Sedghi²

1. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
2. Iran Alumina Complex, Jajarm, Iran

Conference / event

16th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, October 2023 (Seville, Spain)

Poster summary

In this study, in order to identify, evaluate and provide appropriate measures to reduce and eliminate potential risks associated with the use, repair and maintenance of the piston-diaphragm pump, failure mode and effect analysis has been practised. The presented study carefully studied the documents and interviewed the experts to determine the main components of the pump and carefully reviewed the processes and then using the standard FMEA worksheet, has identified potential failure modes and their effects, and risk priority number. Then the identified risks were analysed and corrective actions were recommended and they were evaluated and prioritized by using Analytical Hierarchy Process method. In total, 42 cases of potential risk condition related to the pump were identified and corresponding actions proposed.

Keywords

Filure mode and effect analysis, Analytical hierarchy process, Risk proirity number, Asset management

Research areas

Mechanical Engineering

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2023 Ahmadi et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.