FMEA Ratings – What They Mean And Why Most People Set Them Incorrectly
Presented in conjunction with ASQ’s Risk & Reliability Division, this webinar explains how to assign ratings (Severity, Occurrence & Detection) in a Process FMEA as well as the following:
- Most popular FMEA manuals in publication provide incorrect information on how to set the occurrence ratings in the Process FMEA
- The importance of the Class column in the Process FMEA
- Why design engineers should NEVER specify “Special Characteristics” for a Process FMEA
- How to use the Process FMEA to prioritize what to work on
- How to use the Process FMEA to determine when a process should be released
- What the new AIAG VDA Action Priority (AP) Rating for the Process FMEA is and why it does not work
- What the new AIAG VDA FMEA ratings systems for the Process FMEA is and why the effectiveness of your Process FMEAs will suffer
Numerous examples are provided, including a medical device FMEA.