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FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) : Definition/Purpose

FMEA is a systematic method to evaluate processes and identify potential failures, their causes and effects. It involves reviewing process steps, possible failure modes at each step, failure causes, failure effects, and calculating a Risk Priority Number. This allows teams to prioritize failures most urgently needing prevention. The goal is to prevent issues by understanding what might go wrong and its potential impacts.

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FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) : Definition/Purpose

FMEA is a systematic method to evaluate processes and identify potential failures, their causes and effects. It involves reviewing process steps, possible failure modes at each step, failure causes, failure effects, and calculating a Risk Priority Number. This allows teams to prioritize failures most urgently needing prevention. The goal is to prevent issues by understanding what might go wrong and its potential impacts.

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FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)

Definition/Purpose:

FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) is a systematic, proactive method for evaluating a
process to identify where and how it may fail and to assess the relative impact of different
failures, in order to identify parts that are most in need of change. Typically, the purpose of
FMEA is to identify specific ways a product, process or service might fail. It is designed to
prevent tragedy by identifying potential failures. FMEA is useful in the Improve phase. FMEA
includes review of the following:
· Steps in the process
· Failure Modes (What could go wrong?)
· Failure Causes (Why would the failure happen?)
· Failure effects (What would be the consequences of each failure?)

Definitions:

· Potential Failure Mode – What could go wrong? The four main types of process failure
modes are too much, too little, missing, or wrong.
· Effects – What could be the consequences of each failure?
· Severity – How serious would the impact be if the potential failure were to occur?
· Potential Causes – What are the drivers of this failure?
· Occurrence – How likely is the cause and failure mode to occur?
· Current Controls – What safeguards are currently in place?
· Detection – How difficult is the cause and failure mode to detect prior to occurrence?
· Risk Priority Number (RPN) – Use to prioritize potential failure modes.
▪ RPN = (Occurrence) x (Severity) x (Detection)

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1. Select a process.
2. Assemble a multi-disciplinary team who knows the process.
3. The team lists all steps in the process.
4. Identify high risk process steps.
5. List the failure modes and effects.
6. Define occurrence, severity and detection and calculate the RPN score.
7. Evaluate the results.
Capturing FMEA Information

FMEA Analysis

      Team:       Original Date:  

Revised Date:  

Respons
Potential “After”
or Potential Potential Current Recomm and
Effect(s) of S* O* D* R* Action S* O
Step Failure Mode Cause(s) Controls Action Target
Failure Taken
Date

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

                                                                    

Written 6/05
Revised 6/06
Risk Priority Number =       “After” Risk Priority Number =

· S = Severity, O = Occurrence, D = Detection, R = RPN

Written 6/05
Revised 6/06

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