Integrating a consensus-reaching mechanism with bounded confidences into failure mode and effect analysis under incomplete context

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is one of the most powerful pre-accident risk management techniques and has been extensively used in various fields. Nevertheless, consensus issues and incomplete assessment information are rarely investigated in the current FMEA method. This paper integrates a consensus-reaching mechanism into the FMEA framework and adopts incomplete linguistic distribution assessments to represent risk assessment...