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FMECA
FMECA
INTRODUCTION
Customers are placing increased demands for high quality and reliable
products. The increasing capabilities and functionality of many products are also
making it more difficult for manufacturers to maintain quality and reliability.
Traditionally, reliability has been achieved through extensive testing and use of
techniques such as probabilistic reliability modeling. These are techniques done in
the late stages of development. The challenge now is to design in quality and
reliability early in the development cycle.
Murphy’s Law says things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give
them a chance. However this popular adage can be defeated using a concept called
Failure Mode and Effect Criticality Analysis (FMECA) developed and formally
introduced in the late 1940s for military usage by the United States Armed Forces.
Learning from failures can be costly, time consuming and at times fatal in times of
war. The USAF developed this concept as a fault prevention tool to ensure the war
fighting machines functions effectively as designed for their purposes to win wars.
The early and consistent use of FMECAs in the design process allows the engineer
to design out failures and produce reliable, safe, and customer pleasing products.
FMECAs also capture historical information for use in future product improvement.
WHAT IS FMECA?
USES OF FMECA
There are many uses and benefits in using FMECA in our pursuit towards
excellence in this competitive global village now. They could be categorized as :
LIMITATIONS
FMECA has its fair share of limitation when put to use in the practical sense.
Some of the major limitations are as follows :
CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATION