Reduce risks to your business with Failure Mode Effects Analysis
Problems and faults are expensive they can add significant cost and delays to schedules so it is always better to 'design in' quality and reliability. FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) is a qualitative and systematic tool that will help you anticipate what might go wrong with an item, product or process. It's one of the best ways of analysing potential reliability problems early in the development cycle – making it easier to take quick action and mitigate failure:
- Identify how things might fail (i.e. failure modes),
- The effects or results of the failures,
- The possible causes of failures and
- The likelihood of failures being detected before occurrence.
The benefits of FMEA
Because 'anything that can go wrong will go wrong' it's good practice to brainstorm, a well thought out FMEA analysis has many benefits including:
- Improved product or service reliability and quality
- Identification and prioritisation of potential problems
- Prevention of late changes and additional costs
- Increased customer satisfaction
- Documentary evidence of risk management
- Better teamwork between departments
What Altremis can do for you
At Altremis we work with businesses to successfully implement FMEA tools. FMEA uses three criteria to assess a problem and you need to set a ranking of 1 and 10 for the severity .likelihood of detection and probability of occurrence of the failure modes. We will help you create the right assessment criteria so when you're ranking severity, detection and occurrence you will be able to calculate a true Risk Priority Number. It's important to have an accurate RPN score as it indicates the level of risk and priority the failure poses.
We'll also work with you to implement an effective corrective action plan, assign responsibility and set target completion dates.
Consultancy & Training
- Overview of FMEA
- Designing assessment criteria & calculating risk
- Designing assessment criteria & calculating risk
