Table 11 A comparison of RPN values.

From: Managing uncertainty of expert’s assessment in FMEA with the belief divergence measure

Item

Zhou et al.’s RPN

MVRPN

Improved MVRPN

GERPN

Proposed method

\(FM_1\)

46.4875

42.56

42.56

3.4910

1.6858

\(FM_2\)

64.7921

64.00

64.05

3.9994

2.3881

\(FM_3\)

30.0000

30.00

30.00

3.1069

1.1111

\(FM_4\)

17.5822

18.00

17.97

2.6205

0.6293

\(FM_5\)

3.6671

4.17

3.14

1.6095

0.1554

\(FM_6\)

60.0000

60.00

60.00

3.9143

2.2222

\(FM_7\)

21.0000

21.00

21.00

2.7586

0.7778

\(FM_8\)

16.2000

15.00

15.00

2.4660

0.5896

\(FM_9\)

70.5947

78.92

79.57

4.2881

2.8293

\(FM_{10}\)

60.0000

60.00

60.00

3.9143

2.2222

\(FM_{11}\)

50.0000

50.00

50.00

3.6836

1.8519

\(FM_{12}\)

53.8039

50.00

50.00

3.6836

2.0279

\(FM_{13}\)

49.3333

50.00

50.00

3.6836

1.8370

\(FM_{14}\)

60.6337

60.00

60.04

3.9143

2.2370

\(FM_{15}\)

41.9161

42.00

42.09

3.4756

1.5280

\(FM_{16}\)

21.2967

23.88

23.86

2.8794

0.6983

\(FM_{17}\)

31.2810

30.05

30.05

3.1089

1.2224