Skip to main content

HFMEA-Fuzzy Model for Lean Waste Assessment in Health Care Units: Proposal and Utilization Cases

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems (APMS 2021)

Abstract

The management of risks and failures in health systems is considered one of the most efficient solutions for providing care to patients. In practice, this activity also makes it possible to join new corporate opportunities, because it allows preventive measures resulting from social, scientific, and technological developments to be constantly evolving throughout the organization. The aim of the article is to present an application of the failure modes and their health effects analysis model (HFMEA) integrated with Fuzzy logic in three Emergency Care Units (UPAs) in Brazil. This mapping model analyzes and analyzes how failures occurred in the supply chain of UPAs. The methodology used included dividing the study into 4 stages, which were used to prepare the proposed model through the evaluation of failure modes integrated with Fuzzy logic. This work reports as one of the roots of the problems in the studied UPAs: the predominance of processing and creativity waste. These, associated with the factor Management and Leadership for a Lean environment, demonstrate that failures in leadership are linked to the dissatisfaction of management support professionals. In addition, a hierarchical analysis of the failure probabilities and evaluation of the eight Lean wastes found in the UPAs was presented.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. DeRosier, J., Stalhandske, E., Bagian, J.P., Nudell, T.: Using health care failure mode and effect analysisTM: the VA national centre for patient safety’s prospective risk analysis system. J. Qual. Improv. 28(5), 248–267 (2002)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Lobo, C.V.F., Calado, R.C., Conceição, D.P.R.: Evaluation of value stream mapping (VSM) applicability to the oil and gas chain processes. Int. J. Lean Six Sigma (2018). https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlss-05-2018-0049

  3. Helman, H., Andery, P.R.P.: Análise de falhas (aplicação dos métodos de FMEA – FTA). Belo Horizonte: Fundação Christiano Ottoni (1995)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Boole, G.: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. Dover Publications, New York (1951)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Zadeh, L.A.: Fuzzy sets. In: Information and Control, vol. 8, pp. 338–353 (1965)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Federal Fluminense University and the Fundação Euclides da Cunha, which made the research project funded by the Ministry of Health of Brazil viable; TED 125/2019, Number: 25000191682201908.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Olavo Neto or Robisom Calado .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2021 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

About this paper

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this paper

Cosenza, H., Silva, N., Neto, O., Torres, L., Calado, R. (2021). HFMEA-Fuzzy Model for Lean Waste Assessment in Health Care Units: Proposal and Utilization Cases. In: Dolgui, A., Bernard, A., Lemoine, D., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems. APMS 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85902-2_28

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85902-2_28

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-85901-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-85902-2

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics