UNIT IV

REPAIR METHODS FOR BASIC

MACHINE ELEMENTS

FAILURE
Failure may be defined as
Any loss that interrupts the continuity
of production.
A deviation from the status quo.
Not meeting the target expectation.
The unavailability of equipment.

FAILURE ANALYSIS
Failure analysis is the process by
which information about failure
occurring
in
equipments
are
collected and are analyzed to find
the root cause of failures and the
causes are addressed to prevent
recurrence of failures

FAILURE MODELS
The causes of failures may be
predictable and sometimes may not
be possible.
So the failures are classified as either
predictable or unpredictable
Failures follows any one of the failure
models or patterns.

 This failure inducing mechanism

will give rise to a measured
distribution of time to failure
which approximately closer to
probability distribution function.
Such
function
follow
some
mathematical models which could
be used to make appropriate
maintenance decision.

PREDICTABLE FAILURE MODEL

(AGE DEPENDENT FAILURES)
Time dependent failures are called
age dependent failures.
The
chances
of
failures
of
components increases as the time to - failures of a large no. of such
components would be distributed.

UNPREDICTABLE FAILURE MODEL

(PURELY RANDOMFAILURES)
Experience that most of the components would
reach a point of worn out failure at the time of
its old age, which is quite common
phenomenon.
Sometimes the components may fail within a
week time or a month after installation.
In this case the probability of failure is constant
and independent of running time.
Inspite of all the working conditions maintained
at same level the cause failure will be random in
nature.

FAILURE ANALYSIS

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS (FTA)

EVENT TREE ANALYIS (ETA)
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS (RCA)
ROOT CAUSE FAILURE ANALYSIS
(RCFA)
FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT
ANALYSIS (FMEA)