ABSTRACT
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) has been applied in a large series of cases from different sectors, such as automotive, electronics, construction and services, and has become a standard procedure in many companies for quality control and for the design of new products. FMEA has also a great following in the scientific community as testified by the vast multitude of related documents from scientific and patent literature; to date, more than 3,600 papers in Scopus Database (DB) and 146 patents in Espacenet DB come up by just searching for FMEA without synonyms, with a trend of constant growth over the years. The chapter proposes a semi-automatic semantic analysis about documents related to FMEA modifications and the subsequent manual review for reassuming each of them through a simple sentence made by a causal chain including the declaration of the goals, the followed strategies, and integrations with methods/tools.
