Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
This class is an introduction to the FMEA process within an APQP system, its planning, strategy and benefits. Learn the structure and information sources for effective use of FMEA and its correlation to the rest of the AIAG core tools.
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
This program provides a fundamental and practical review of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. FMEA is an excellent quality tool to use with any quality system. While the benefits of Process FMEA are similar to those of Design FMEA, the specific benefit of this FMEA training is that you will learn to use powerful tools to improve processes in your organization.
Course Objectives
- Gain a fundamental understanding of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Learn to apply FMEA as a quality improvement tool within any quality system
- Understand the differences and benefits of Process FMEA and Design FMEA
- Develop skills to effectively identify and mitigate potential process failures
- Improve organizational processes using FMEA methodologies
Target Audience
- Calibration Technicians
- Quality Managers
- Engineers
- Quality Technicians
- Other users of uncertainty budgets
Agenda
- Introduction to FMEA
- The FMEA process within an APQP system
- FMEA and Continuous Improvement strategies
- System, Design and Process FMEA
- Quality function deployment and FMEA (Process and Design)
- The benefits of FMEA
- The FMEA Process
- FMEA: a team effort
- Information sources for use with Design and Process FMEA
- Failure mode brainstorming and evaluation
- Cause and effect diagrams to analyze failure modes
- Identification of current controls
- Estimating the:
- Severity of the potential effects
- Occurrence rate of cause/failure mode mechanism
- Capability of controls to detect the failure mode
- Calculating the RPN (Risk Priority Number)
- Documenting the FMEA
- Using FMEA to Improve the Design and Process
- Prioritizing failure modes
- Developing recommended actions
- Using Design and Process FMEA to drive product design changes, manufacturing process changes and control plans
- Linking the Corrective and Preventive Action Reports to FMEAs
- The Design and Process FMEAs as a living documents
- Writing Control Plans from FMEAs
- Relationships between causes of process failure modes, process parameters and product characteristics
- Using the QFD process planning matrix
- The control plan as a living document
- Writing Action Plans
- Graphic-based reaction plans with a process and product control focus and as a data collection tool.
Course Delivery
- In-Person Training
- Online Self-Paced
- Training for Teams
- Virtual Live Training
Prerequisites
- None
