Demonstrates How To Perform FMEAs Step-by-Step
Originally designed to address safety concerns, Failure Mode and Effect
Analysis (FMEA) is now used throughout the industry to prevent a wide
range of process and product problems. Useful in both product design and
manufacturing, FMEA can identify improvements early when product and
process changes are relatively easy and inexpensive to make.
Updated to include changes reflected in ISO/TX-16949:2002 standards and
2008 AIAG guidelines, The Basics of FMEA, Second Edition continues
to provide the expert advice needed to help shorten the learning curve
for FMEA teams to conduct effective and efficient FMEAs, even if it is
their very first one.
Includes Ready-to-Use Worksheet Templates
Using a manufacturing case study, readers learn step-by-step how to use
FMEAs to assess, evaluate, and prioritize areas of risk, and then to
implement the actions needed to reduce risks to an acceptable level. It
shows the steps needed to ferret out potential problems and prevent
making inferior products that could endanger public and worker safety
and compromise profits as well as the future of all stakeholders.
Although engineers have typically analyzed processes and products for
potential failures, the FMEA process standardizes the approach and
establishes a common language that nontechnical as well as technical
employees can use at all levels. Unlike other improvement tools, FMEA
does not require complicated statistics. However, they require a full
commitment to quality and a willingness to take a team approach that
involves all stakeholders.
