"Your Guide for FMEA Information"
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FMEA / FMECA - General Benefits:
- Prevention Planning
- Identifies change requirements
- Cost reduction
- Increased throughput
- Decreased waste
- Decreased warranty costs
- Reduce non-value added operations
Concept FMEA:
- Helps select the optimum concept alternatives, or determine changes
to design specifications
- Identifies potential failure modes caused by interactions within the
concept
- Increases the likelihood all potential effects of a proposed concept’s
failure modes are considered.
- Identifies system level testing requirements
- Helps determine if hardware system redundancy may be required
within a design proposal
Design FMEA:
- Aids in the objective evaluation of design requirements and design
alternatives
- Aids in the initial design for manufacturing and assembly requirements
- Increases the probability that potential failure modes and their effects
have been considered in the design/development process
- Provides additional information to help plan thorough and efficient
test programs.
- Develops a list of potential failure modes ranked according to their
effect on the customer. Establishes a priority system for design
improvements.
- Provides an open issue format for recommending and tracking risk
reducing actions.
- Provides future reference to aid in analyzing field concerns.
Process FMEA:
- Identifies potential product related process failure modes.
- Assesses the potential customer effects of the failures.
- Identifies the potential manufacturing or assembly process causes
and identifies process variables on which to focus controls or
monitoring.
- Develops a ranked list of potential failure modes, establishing a
priority system for corrective action considerations.
- Documents the results of the manufacturing or assembly process.
- Identifies process deficiencies
- Identifies confirmed critical characteristics and/or significant
characteristics
- Identifies operator safety concerns
- Feeds information on design changes required and manufacturing
feasibility back to the designers.
This page describes some of the benefits that can be derived by performing
various types of FMEA / FMECA.
