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Understanding and Implementing FMEA

Establish the foundation to avoid Murphy's Law; things that could go wrong don't have to when you learn to use FMEAs successfully. This course will teach you the skills to understand and use FMEAs and the concept of risk reduction and defect prevention. Turn your quality control around when you discover the impact of failure and how you can reduce the risk with FMEAs. Then, take your skills and knowledge beyond the concepts by learning the specifics of successfully developing and maintaining design and process FMEAs for your company, which includes identifying and reducing risk factors.

Duration
2
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1.50 credits
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What will I learn?

  • Explain the benefits and general framework of FMEA as a risk analysis tool
  • Relate Design and Process FMEAs to APQP and IATF 16949:2016
  • Define FMEA customers
  • Identify functions, potential failure modes and effects
  • Determine potential causes
  • Identify current prevention and detection process controls
  • Identify improvement opportunities to reduce the risk of failure
  • Utilize information gathered from performing an FMEA and construct a Prototype Control Plan
  • Connect the Block Diagram, Design FMEAs, and Prototype Control Plans
  • Utilize information gathered from performing an FMEA and construct a Pre-Launch/Production Control Plan
  • Connect the Process Flow, Process FMEAs, Control Plans and Work Instructions

Who should attend?

  • Development Coordinators
  • APQP Team Members
  • Product Design Engineers
  • Process Engineers
  • Quality Professionals
  • PPAP Coordinators
  • Project Managers
  • Other manufacturing roles related to quality assurance

Agenda

Day 1

  • Block Diagrams
  • Product and Process Characteristics
  • Special Characteristics
  • Design FMEA and APQP Linkages
  • Design FMEA and IATF 16949:2016 Linkages
  • Developing and Implementing Design FMEAs
    • Failure Modes
    • Effects
    • Occurrence
    • Detection
    • Process Controls
    • Risk
    • Managing Improvement Actions - Assessing Effectiveness of Improvements
  • Design FMEAs and Prototype Control Plan Linkages
  • Design FMEA Application 


Day 2

  • Process Flow Charts
  • Product and Process Characteristics
  • Special Characteristics
  • Process FMEAs and APQP Linkages
  • Process FMEAs and IATF 16949:2016 Linkages
  • Developing and Implementing Process FMEAs
    • Failure Modes
    • Effects
    • Occurrence
    • Detection
    • Process Controls
    • Risk
    • Managing Improvement Actions - Assessing Effectiveness of Improvements
  • Process FMEA and Control Plan Linkages
  • Process FMEA Application - Linkage with Design FMEA Application

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