ABSTRACT
This chapter defines major types of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and recommends to support a range of projects and development efforts in preparing products that best support the customer’s needs. A FMEA helps to evaluate numerous aspects of a product. An FMEA identifies many specified and unspecified customer requirements related to product design, its use, how failures may occur, the severity of such failures, and the probability of the failure occurring. A key FMEA goal is the early identification of potential issues that can affect the customer. An FMEA is a structural method to study a design or process that seeks to anticipate and minimize unwanted performance or unexpected failure. The chapter provides common help on basic methods for implementing an FMEA. In the traditional implementation approach, the FMEA team discusses failures and failure effects.
