FMEA
A failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) (or FMECA) is an inductive failure analysis and is a core task in Reliability engineering, Safety engineering and Quality Engineering. A successful FMEA activity helps to identify potential failure modes based on past experience with similar products and processes or based on common failure mechanism logic. It is widely used in development and manufacturing industries in various phases of the product life cycle. Effects analysis refers to studying the consequences of those failures on different system levels.
Functional analysis are needed as an input to determine correct failure modes. A FMEA is also used to structure Mitigation for Risk reduction based on either failure (mode) effect severity reduction or based on lowering the probability of failure or both. Failure probability can be reduced by understanding the failure mechanism and reducing or eliminating the (root) causes and failure mechanism that may lead to the failure (mode). It is therefore also important to include an appropriate depth of information on the causes of failure.
Read more about FMEA: Introduction, Basic Terms, History, Ground Rules, Implementation, Example FMEA Sheet, Timing of FMEA, Uses of FMEA, Advantages, Limitations, Software For Calculation, Types of FMEA