Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis(FMEA)

Overview
This seminar is designed to provide employees with the skills and knowledge to identify and prevent potential failures through the use of Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). Participants work on actual products and processes for exercises throughout the session.

Participants
Engineers and managers who are responsible for product or process development and testing.

Seminar Objectives
To enable participants to conduct Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to prevent failures. Specific topics and skills covered include:

• Why do FMEA?
• Understanding of FMEA
• Understanding of how FMEA fits into a quality system
• Understanding of the “do’s” and “don’ts” or common mistakes of FMEA
• Ability to develop a Design FMEA
• Ability to develop a Process FMEA

Time
One day

Basic Outline

• Introduction
• Quality failures
• Quality systems and FMEA
• Design FMEA
• Process FMEA
• FMEA implementation questions