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Detergent Packets Poison FMEA

Children seem to like the look of laundry detergent packets, so they eat them and go to the emergency room.

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is designed to ferret out these kinds of problems in advance.

Failure Mode: Someone (adult or child) mistakes them for candy and eats one.

Effects: Vomiting and even death

Could this simple analysis have prevented this problem before it got to market? Maybe.

Learn more at www.qimacros.com/lean-six-sigma-articles/fmea/

 

Posted by Jay Arthur in QI Macros, Six Sigma.