FMEA, or Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, is a structured approach that uncovers possible failures in products or processes, gauges their repercussions, and enacts strategies to avert or minimize their impact. This technique spans diverse sectors, encompassing manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace, and automotive industries. As a pivotal instrument for enhancing quality, reliability, and safety, FMEA delves into each potential failure mode, assessing its likelihood and consequences, while devising optimal preventive or mitigative measures. The iterative FMEA process ensures continuous enhancement, closely observing products or processes over time. By proactively addressing potential pitfalls during design or development phases, FMEA elevates product quality, diminishes risks, and curtails expenses tied to failures. Our FMEA courses deliver comprehensive training in the principles and application of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. Encompassing theory, practical steps, tools, techniques, and industry-specific implementations, these courses empower participants to identify potential failures, evaluate their impacts, and deploy countermeasures. Crafted for professionals spanning manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace, and automotive domains, these courses cater to individuals of varying expertise levels. From newcomers to seasoned practitioners, participants glean opportunities for career growth, enhanced performance, and the capacity to drive continuous improvement and competitiveness within their organizations.
Learning Outcome
The programme aims to provide delegates with learning how to:
• Identify potential failure modes in a product, process or service
• Determine the effects and cause or causes of the potential failure
• Determine and implement preventive actions
Course Outline:
DAY 1
Session 1-Introduction and overview of FMEA
• Definition of FMEA concept
• Historical background
• Benefits of FMEA
• Types of FMEA
• Key elements of FMEA
Session 2-Design FMEA
• Purpose of design FMEA
• Conducting a design FMEA
• item function or performance requirement
• potential failure modes
• potential effects of failure
• potential cause or causes of failure
• probability of occurrence
• severity of occurrence
• current controls and detection levels
• suggested actions
• Practical exercise
- Root cause analysis
o cause and effect analysis
o fault tree analysis
o design of experiment
Session 3-Process FMEA
• Purpose of process FMEA
• Conducting a process FMEA
• process function or performance requirement
• potential failure modes
• potential effects of failure
• potential cause or causes of failure
• probability of occurrence
• severity of occurrence
• current controls and detection levels
• suggested actions
• Practical exercise
Day 2
Session 4-Service FMEA
• Purpose of service FMEA
• Conducting a service FMEA
• Services rendered or carried out
• Potential service failure modes
• Potential effects or failure on client
• Potential cause or causes of failure
• Probability of occurrence
• Severity of occurrence
• Current controls and detection levels
• Suggested service recovery
• Case study
Session 5-How and why would FMEA fail
• 8 reasons for FMEA failure
Course Certification
Participants will be issued with a certificate of attendance