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What Is An FMEA?

A tool used to evaluate - potential failure modes and their causes.

• Prioritizes Potential Failures according to their Risk and drives actions to eliminate or reduce their likelihood of occurrence.

• Provides a discipline/methodology for documenting this analysis for future use and continuous process improvement.

• By its self, an FMEA is NOT a problem solver. It is used in combination with other problem solving tools. �The FMEA presents the opportunity but does not solve the problem.�

FMEA and Control Plans Forum Discussions

	The. Deming PDCA Cycle	QMS Implementation	FMEA Information	APQP Information
Auditing Information	8-D Problem Solving	Statistics	Error Proofing (Poka Yoke)	Brainstorming
Identifying Waste	Pull Systems	Lead Time Reduction	Planned Maintenance	Quick Setup
Discovering Change	Process Capability - Cp vs. Cpk	Histogram. Animation	Process Loop Animation	Taguchi Loss Function
		Fishbone / Cause and Effects Animation

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