An Improved Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Model for Automatic Transmission Risk Assessment Considering the Risk Interaction

Abstract

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a powerful tool for reliability management that has been widely applied in a variety of areas. The interaction relationship exists in the whole process of FMEA risk assessment, and has an important impact on it. However, few scholars consider the interaction among experts, risk factors, and failure modes in the FMEA framework. Therefore, we propose an improved FMEA method, which comprehensively considers the interaction between each part. First, the Choquet integral is used to improve the incomplete part of the social trust network, then the importance of experts is determined. Second, the Shapley-LINMAP linear programming method based on cloud model is proposed to calculate the weight of risk factors. Finally, the improved decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory method based on cloud model is used to rank the failure modes. By applying the method proposed in this article to the case of automatic transmission (AMT) of new energy vehicles, the effectiveness and superiority can be verified from the comparison analysis with other methods, which enriches the theoretical research of the FMEA method and improves the reliability of risk assessment of AMT.