Failure Mode Analysis for a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber

고압산소 치료기에 대한 고장모드 분석

  • 전태보 (강원대학교 산업공학과) ;
  • 박성빈 (강원대학교 산업공학과)
  • Published : 2013.02.28

Abstract

Reliability plays a pivotal role in the development of medical instruments. A hyperbaric oxygen chamber, as a medical/health device, is known to help medical therapy for diversity of diseases through provision of high purity oxygen. The use of hyperbaric oxygen chamber is expected to increase in the future and study to examine reliability and safety is needed. We have performed reliability assessment for a newly developed hyperbaric oxygen chamber in this study. We first briefly discussed the system structure and mechanism. We then performed FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) for the chamber. We drew major failure modes affecting the system performance and performed in depth analysis for measuring the expected effects.

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