Risk Prioritization in FMEA
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Carl and Fred discuss a question from a reader about risk prioritization in FMEA procedure.
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SOR 1162 Risk Prioritization in FMEA
About Carl S. Carlson
FMEA Quality Objective 14: TIME USAGE
Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
Achieving high-quality FMEAs requires support from the right FMEA team. Getting the team to show up and participate to the fullest extent is critical to success.
SOR 1161 Our Unique Role in Reliability
Our Unique Role in Reliability
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Carl and Fred discuss the ongoing challenge between doing reliability work ourselves and enabling others to accomplish the work. And what is the future human role in the field of reliability, given the advancements in AI?
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FMEA Quality Objective 13: LINKAGE
None of us is a smart as all of us. – Ken Blanchard
FMEAs have great potential value to improve product designs and manufacturing processes. That value increases significantly when FMEA is properly linked and connected to other analyses.
How can FMEA be linked to other analyses to increase value?
1. Design FMEA can be linked to Process FMEA.
- Causes in the DFMEA become inputs to identification of failure modes in the PFMEA.
- Effects in the DFMEA become inputs to identification of product-related effects in the PFMEA.
- DFMEA can recommend Special Product Characteristics that are input to PFMEA.
- Product designs must be able to be manufactured and assembled, and this can be supported by the DFMEA team considering design improvements that help ensure the design can easily be manufactured without failures.
SOR 1148 Effective Leadership
Effective Leadership
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Carl and Fred share their experiences and advices about leadership, and why it is essential to accomplishing reliability objectives.
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SOR 1147 Writing Skills
Writing Skills
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Carl and Fred discuss the role of writing skills in conveying information to others and influencing the reliability of products and processes.
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FMEA Quality Objective 12: TIMING
“Innovation has a lot to do with timing.” — Steve Jobs
When FMEAs are done is just as important as how they are done. In this article, I’ll share evaluation criteria for the FMEA Quality Objective regarding timing.
In FMEAs, what is meant by timing?
FMEAs need to be completed through Recommended Actions, Actions Taken, and risk reduced to an acceptable level by certain dates. Meeting the timing objectives of FMEAs means they were started and completed by the required dates. [Read more…]
SOR 1141 Presenting Skills
Presenting Skills
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Carl and Fred share their experiences in presenting, what they have learned, what is most important in achieving excellent presentations.
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SOR 1140 Getting and Giving Feedback
Getting and Giving Feedback
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Carl and Fred discuss the role of receiving feedback in improving one’s ability to implement the various reliability tasks and methods. They also cover how to give feedback to others, so it is most meaningful.
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FMEA Quality Objective 11: ADDRESS HIGH-RISK FAILURES
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein
There is no more important outcome from an FMEA than identifying and addressing high-risk issues. In this article, I will outline how to evaluate an FMEA against the FMEA Quality Objective for addressing high-risk failures.
What is meant by “address high-risk failures”?
The level of risk in an FMEA is identified in the Risk Priority column. For each failure mode and corresponding effect and cause, the FMEA team designates the level of risk, such as “high” or “medium” or “low.” High-risk failures are those that the FMEA teams assigns the highest level of risk, based on appropriate FMEA standard or company policy.
“Address” means “to deal with, handle, or give attention to a problem, issue, or topic in a deliberate and effective way.”
In an FMEA, each of the high-risk failure modes must be addressed by effective actions that reduce risk to an acceptable level. [Read more…]
FMEA Quality Objective 10: TEST IMPROVEMENTS
“Evaluate what you want – because what gets measured, gets produced.” James A. Belasco
Years ago, many FMEAs did not recommend actions to improve product designs or testing. They identified risk, which is important; but missed opportunities to actually improve product designs and test plans. In this article, I will outline how to evaluate an individual Design FMEA or Process FMEA against the FMEA Quality Objective for test improvements.
What is meant by “test improvement”?
The concept is to take specific action to add new tests and/or revise current tests, in order to address high detection risk. [Read more…]
SOR 1127 Understanding Assumptions
Understanding Assumptions
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Carl and Fred discuss why it essential for reliability engineers to understand the assumptions that go into any reliability activity.
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SOR 1126 Good and Bad Meetings
Good and Bad Meetings
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Carl and Fred discuss what makes some meetings really useful and others a waste of time.
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SOR 1121 The Role of Stories
The Role of Stories
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Carl and Fred discuss the role of stories in conveying principles to others. At first, it may not come easily; but it is an essential part of good communication, and well worth the effort.
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SOR 1120 Asking Questions
Asking Questions
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Carl and Fred discuss another of the communication skills: how to use questions in your reliability practice.
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