Abstract
The current huge investments in engineering systems have created a renewed concern about their reliability and safety among scholars and practitioners. This article bridges the knowledge gap in the evaluation of reliability and safety concerns in engineering systems. It uses a literature review and qualitative content analysis method to identify the underlying factors that cause reliability and safety issues in engineering systems. The identified factors are organizational, environmental, and physical and mechanical factors. An extended Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method was used to determine rank these factors criticality to accidents occurrence in engineering systems. FAHP’s applicability was demonstrated using cranes as a case study. Based on the analysis of three experts’ evaluations, the environmental factor is the most critical accidents in engineering systems. On the other hand, the organizational factor is the least critical factor to accidents in engineering systems. The study will be beneficial to product development/manufacturing companies. Its findings could provide practitioners and scholars with sound knowledge of the implications of reliability and safety issues on engineering systems accidents.
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