DFMEA Overview and Application
What Will You Learn
- Explain basic reliability concepts as related to the application of the DFMEA
- Explain the philosophy behind the FMEA process as related to the prevention of product/service failures
- Build and/or play a role on a cross functional team to complete the DFMEA
- Identify the collection of information necessary for the completion of the DFMEA
- Build and use a Block Diagram to guide the DFMEA analysis
- Correctly play an effective role in conducting the DFMEA
- Explain the difference between the DFMEA and the PFMEA
- Analyze DFMEA results and follow up properly with appropriate Design Controls or other corrective actions
Is This Course For You
Materials Provided
Course Requirements
Topics
- Instructor Qualifications
- Participant’s Job Roles and Experience
- Examples of Process Issues that lead to failures
- Reliability vs. Basic Quality concepts
- Design life
- Bath tub curve
- Failures
- Failure modes and effects
- Essential factors that play a significant role for a company to successfully provide quality products and services
- Benefits to the organization its customers and employees
- The role of the DFMEA in Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and relationship to the PFMEA as well as other tools/techniques
- Cross functional team approach
- The Block Diagram
- Use of the AIAG form to guide the DFMEA
- Analysis and problem solving
- Follow-up and implementation
VI. Begin a DFMEA and interpret the results
- Identification of potential failures
- Prediction of failure modes and the severity of failures
- Estimations of the probability of failure occurrence
- Identification of associated risks and effects of failures
- Identify, analyze and implement design controls
- Calculation and interpretation of the Risk Priority Number (RPN)
- Follow-up and implementation of recommendations
- The FMEA as a “Living Document”