FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS (FMEA)

Course Objectives

• The benefits of a proper FMEA effort.
• The different types of FMEA’s (System, Design, & Process).
• When FMEA’s should be started and completed.
• How to construct an effective FMEA team.
• A working definition of the “terms” in FMEA.
• Specific step by step “How to’s” in completing an effective and efficient FMEA.
• Application, installation and functional failure modes strategies.
• Strategies to determine root causes.
• How to understand and quantitatively assess risk in design and manufacturing.
• What severity, occurrence, and detection mean and how to estimate them.
• Common pitfalls and keys to successful implementation of FMEAs.

Target Audience

Process Engineers, R & D Engineers/Scientist, and other technical based individual, working on process Improvement

Methodology

Classroom lecture, activity, and practical activity using Minitab software

Course Modules

Module 1: Introduction and Voice of the Customer (VOC)
Module 2: FMEA Process Overview
Module 3: FMEA Development Methodology
Module 4: Links Between Design and Process FMEA
Module 5: Workshop 1 – Review Product and Processes To Be Performed
Module 6: Practical Application of the Design FMEA Technique
Module 7: Workshop 2 – Construct Boundary / Block Diagrams and Parameter Diagrams
Module 8: FMEA Development Methodology – Three Path Model
Module 9: FTA Fundamentals
Module 10: Workshop – FTA
Module 11: Process FMEA Pre-Work
Module 12: Keys to Success and Efficient FMEA Development
Module 13: Other Tools and Techniques Used or Related to FMEA