How to run productive FMEA review meetings: pre-meeting prep, role assignments, agenda structure, and tactics for resolving S/O/D rating disagreements.
Design FMEA vs process FMEA: scope, timing, and how DFMEA failure modes become PFMEA causes. AIAG-VDA linkage breakdown and APQP timing table.
Linking PFMEA to control plan and PFD: five shared identifiers, ECN cascade workflow, and the audit cross-reference test that catches mismatches.
How to update an FMEA after an ECN: scope mapping, re-rating S/O/D, cascading to PFD and Control Plan, and audit-ready version control.
Complete FMEA severity rating scale with 1-10 definitions anchored to specific manufacturing and assembly failure examples. Includes worked injection molding PFMEA example and team calibration techniques.
Walk through all seven steps of a process FMEA using the AIAG-VDA method with a real injection molding example. Covers structure analysis, function analysis, failure analysis, risk ratings, optimization, and results documentation.