FMEA - Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

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Preventing Disaster with FMEA

The tool you use to analyze and prevent disasters is the FMEA - Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (a template in the QI Macros). You can use it to analyze a product (car, x-ray, MRI), part (car door), or process (part stamping process or elective surgery).

• Designing a product or part uses a DFMEA.
• Analyzing a process uses a PFMEA.

When you've got a product or a process that can affect human life (e.g., radiology or amputation in a hospital), you want to anticipate all of the ways that the product or process could go wrong and affect your customer. The automobile and airline industries do this routinely to mitigate and prevent potential problems.

Save yourself time and money by analyzing the potential causes of failure using the FMEA.

FMEA Example

FMEA template

The FMEA template is just one of the tools included in the QI Macros for Excel SPC Software for Excel.

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