FMEA generation: Model & reasoning

Abstract

Concurrent engineering improves competitiveness of the manufacturing industry,by improving quality, reducing cost and cycle times of the products. In line with this initiative the International Standards Organization has adopted a “failure modes and effects analysis” (FMEA) tool. FMEA is used to identify potential failure modes of a product or process, effects of the failures, and assess the criticality of these effects on the product functionality, providing basic information for risk assessment and quality improvement of product and process design.