FMECA and FMEA are closely related tools to identify failure modes that may potentially cause product or process failure, thus providing an opportunity to reduce the possibility of failure.Continue Reading

There are Seven Steps to Developing an FMEA: FMEA Pre-Work and Assemble the FMEA Team Path 1 Development (Requirements through Severity Ranking) Path 2 Development (Potential Causes and Prevention Controls through Occurrence Ranking) Path 3 Development (Testing and Detection Controls through Detection Ranking) Action Priority & Assignment Actions Taken / Design Review Re-ranking RPN &...Continue Reading

Failure Mode Effect Criticality Analysis – involves quantitative failure analysis. The FMECA involves creating a series of linkages between potential failures (Failure Modes), the impact on the mission (Effects) and the causes of the failure (Causes and Mechanisms).Continue Reading

FMEA is a structured approach to discovering potential failures that may exist within the design of a product or process. Condcuting FMEA allows to identify, prioritize and limit these failure modes.Continue Reading

RAM study can be performed at various stages of the life cycle, typically during Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed engineering and Process Operation stages.Continue Reading

The current IEC standard is IEC 60812, 3rd Edition, August 2018 – Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA and FMECA) This document explains how failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), including the failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) variant, is planned, performed, documented and maintained and addresses the following: -Describes the principles -Provides the...Continue Reading

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The FMECA is performed prior to any failure actually occurring. FMECA analyzes risk, which is measured by criticality (the combination of severity and probability), to take action and thus provide an opportunity to reduce the possibility of failure.Continue Reading

Perform FMEA Determine Severity Level Assign failure effect probability Assign probability of occurrence calculate & plot criticality Design feedback & risk mitigation perform maintainability analysisContinue Reading