PFMEA Benefits

By Preventing errors or problems

You prevent waste, improve quality and cyclecycle-times, and reduce costs !
You can effectively Prevent
rework, retest, re-inspection, poor quality, higher costs, etc.

It costs companies less to prevent problems than to react to them (Firefighting = Dollars Wasted) You can improve Cycle-times
Time, Labor, and money is more effectively spent on preventing rather than reacting to errors

PFMEAs make teams more effective!

Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis

How do we perform a PFMEA?

#1: Identify the process or product that requires the PFMEA Analysis Recommended: New processes being launched Business, transaction, service, or manufacturing process Current processes with poor yields, rework, errors, defects, poor cycle-times, high costs, high customer dissatisfaction, etc.

Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis

How to perform a PFMEA

Complete the next column in the PFMEA tool
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Column 3 Brainstorm and list all the effects of the failure mode(s )if it actually occurred. The effects of a failure, defect
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FMEA Nu er: Pa e: of the external effect Pre ared y: (Re .) FMEA Date (Ori .) Action Results Occurrence Actions Taken Detection Se erity

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In Column 3 List all of the potential (internal and external) effects of the Failure Modes, defects or errors : Example- Customer rejects, poor fit, rework, cycle-time increase, test failure This effects list will help you determine the everity ranking to be placed in column 4 Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis

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