with research streams examining its conceptualizations, manifestations, and consequences. Researchers started by taking foreignness to be a liability, then later considered the possibility of its being an asset.
The new approach also dispenses with the risk priority number (RPN), which is the product of three ordinal numbers: the severity, occurrence, and detection ratings.2Suppose we have two failure modes, both of which have RPNs of 240. The first has S = 10, O = 8, and D = 3, and t...