FMEA in Practice - Who should be responsible for making FMEAs

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trainerbob

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I also agree that the team is the best way to go. I have seen too many instances where others were saddled with decisions made by "the engineers" and the product was difficult to actually produce the way it was designed. I believe that the correct approach is to have representation from every part of the organization that has any stake in the production and handling of the product. In that way everyone gains from everyone elses experience for both the current situation as well any future work. Teams also mean better buy-in.
 
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Jsipilai

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OK thanks JaxQC.
I thought that in Design FMEA we should think that failures mean that we design the product wrong. That is we select to use poor material, not use it by accident. I thought that this way we could estimate which materials are most critical for the product. This is a little confusing!
I have a lot of literature concerning FMEA but it's still quite challenging to apply it to our company.
 
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Jsipilai

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About that AIAG FMEA "blue book". It's told in AIAG webpage that it is a reference manual to be used with American car manufacturers. But we have a customer from European automotive industry. The ISO/TS 16949 standard is international but are there still some differences between European and American industry requirements concerning FMEA. I mean that is this book relevant for us Europeans?
I have not very much experience in automotive indusrty. Is AIAG really a global organization or is it mainly working in the USA?
 

Jim Wynne

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About that AIAG FMEA "blue book". It's told in AIAG webpage that it is a reference manual to be used with American car manufacturers. But we have a customer from European automotive industry. The ISO/TS 16949 standard is international but are there still some differences between European and American industry requirements concerning FMEA. I mean that is this book relevant for us Europeans?
I have not very much experience in automotive indusrty. Is AIAG really a global organization or is it mainly working in the USA?
Whether or not a standard method is relevant depends on what your customers require, even in the U.S.
 
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Richard Pike

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The answer seems quite straight forward. Whoever is responsible for the design of the process being evaluated is responsible for the risk analysis of that process. If the risk is high they would consider changing the design of their process. They have to provide a sound robust process and that can only be achieved if the risks of things going wrong is evaluated. That having been said one would hope that the designer of the process does not do this in isolation. Hopefully they talk to the other people involved. Production & Maintenance come to mind as being invaluable resources for information as to how the process could fail.

That having been said, there are still companies that operate a separate "quality control" department which are responsible for how Failure Modes are Detected. This infers that the Process Engineer cannot be solely responsible!

Who is responsible is irrelevant, who is involved is everything!
 
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