Design FMEA – the Key to product reliability

Course Topic: Product development methodologies – Failure mode & Effect Analysis

Target Audience:

• Designers
• Research & Development
• Portfolio Managers
• Production Planners
• Program Managers
• Project Managers and Project Leaders
• Number of participants: 4 - 10

Duration:

• 8 hours:
• 2 sessions (4 hours each)

Language:

• English

Training Outcomes:

• Use this effective methodology as a tool for anticipating risks and mistakes during product development preventing problems in the life cycle
• Apply the Design FMEA tool in the correct context

Training Contents:

• F.M.E.A. as a prevention tool
• Formalize information to prevent
• Impact on quality and reliability
• Analysis of possible failures
• Identification/Classification of the corrective actions
• Living document: real-time design change risk management
• Preparing for analysis
• Defining the problem
• Function Analysis
• Creating the Failure Modes List
• The documentation required for the development of F.M.E.A. works
• F.M.E.A. Indices: Probability, Severity, Detectability
• Index evaluation criteria (P, S, D)
• R.P.N. index calculation (Risk Priority Number) in comparison with the new AIAG VDA approach
• How to classify the RISK level
• When to take corrective action
• Impact of DFMEA on validation activities and the production process

• FMEA exercises step by step
• Use your own product for exercises
• Analysis and discussion on cases