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Failure mode and effects analysis

Index Failure mode and effects analysis

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)—also "failure modes", plural, in many publications—was one of the first highly structured, systematic techniques for failure analysis. [1]

47 relations: American Society for Quality, Apollo program, ARP4761, Automotive Industry Action Group, Design Review Based on Failure Mode, Eight Disciplines Problem Solving, Failure analysis, Failure cause, Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis, Failure modes, effects, and diagnostic analysis, Failure rate, Fault tree analysis, Food, Ford Motor Company, Fuzzy logic, Galileo (spacecraft), Goddard Space Flight Center, Hazard analysis, Hazard analysis and critical control points, High availability, Inductive reasoning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Level of measurement, List of materials analysis methods, List of materials-testing resources, Magellan (spacecraft), NASA, Ordinal data, Poka-yoke, Process decision program chart, Quality engineering, Reliability engineering, Risk assessment, Root cause, SAE International, Safety engineering, Skylab, Structured What If Technique, Subject-matter expert, Taguchi methods, Top-down and bottom-up design, Toyota, United States Department of Defense, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Geological Survey, Viking program, Voyager program.

American Society for Quality

The American Society for Quality (ASQ), formerly the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), is a knowledge-based global community of quality professionals, with nearly 80,000 members dedicated to promoting and advancing quality tools, principles, and practices in their workplaces and communities.

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Apollo program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

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ARP4761

ARP4761, Guidelines and Methods for Conducting the Safety Assessment Process on Civil Airborne Systems and Equipment is an Aerospace Recommended Practice from SAE International.

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Automotive Industry Action Group

The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) is a not-for profit association founded in 1982 and based in Southfield, Michigan.

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Design Review Based on Failure Mode

Design Review Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM) is a tool originally developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation.

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Eight Disciplines Problem Solving

Eight Disciplines (8Ds) Problem Solving is a method developed at Ford Motor Company used to approach and to resolve problems, typically employed by engineers or other professionals.

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Failure analysis

Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure, often with the goal of determining corrective actions or liability.

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Failure cause

Failure causes are defects in design, process, quality, or part application, which are the underlying cause of a failure or which initiate a process which leads to failure.

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Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis

Failure mode, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) is an extension of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).

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Failure modes, effects, and diagnostic analysis

Failure modes, effects, and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA) is a systematic analysis technique to obtain subsystem / product level failure rates, failure modes and diagnostic capability.

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Failure rate

Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed in failures per unit of time.

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Fault tree analysis

Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a top-down, deductive failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is analyzed using Boolean logic to combine a series of lower-level events.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Fuzzy logic

Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic in which the truth values of variables may be any real number between 0 and 1.

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Galileo (spacecraft)

Galileo was an American unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.

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Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

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Hazard analysis

Note: Parts of this article are written from the perspective of aircraft safety analysis techniques and definitions; these may not represent current best practice and the article needs to be updated to represent a more generic description of hazard analysis and discussion of more modern standards and techniques.

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Hazard analysis and critical control points

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe and designs measures to reduce these risks to a safe level.

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High availability

High availability is a characteristic of a system, which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period.

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Inductive reasoning

Inductive reasoning (as opposed to ''deductive'' reasoning or ''abductive'' reasoning) is a method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California, United States, with large portions of the campus in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

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Level of measurement

Level of measurement or scale of measure is a classification that describes the nature of information within the values assigned to variables.

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List of materials analysis methods

List of materials analysis methods.

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List of materials-testing resources

Material Testing Materials (biomaterials as well as inorganic or organic materials) and devices (integrated circuits, LED, Solar cell etc.) need analysis to assess product quality, functioning, safety, reliability and toxicity.

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Magellan (spacecraft)

The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a robotic space probe launched by NASA of the United States, on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Ordinal data

Ordinal data is a categorical, statistical data type where the variables have natural, ordered categories and the distances between the categories is not known.

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Poka-yoke

is a Japanese term that means "mistake-proofing" or "inadvertent error prevention".

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Process decision program chart

Process Decision Program Chart (PDPC) is a technique designed to help prepare contingency plans.

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Quality engineering

Quality engineering is the management, development, operation and maintenance of IT systems and enterprise architectures with a high quality standard.

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Reliability engineering

Reliability engineering is a sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes dependability in the lifecycle management of a product.

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Risk assessment

Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative estimate of risk related to a well-defined situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard).

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Root cause

A root cause is an initiating cause of either a condition or a causal chain that leads to an outcome or effect of interest.

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SAE International

SAE International, initially established as the Society of Automotive Engineers, is a U.S.-based, globally active professional association and standards developing organization for engineering professionals in various industries.

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Safety engineering

Safety engineering is an engineering discipline which assures that engineered systems provide acceptable levels of safety.

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Skylab

Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.

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Structured What If Technique

Structured What If Technique (SWIFT) is a prospective hazards analysis method that uses structured brainstorming with guide words and prompts to identify risks,Card AJ, Ward JR, Clarkson PJ: "Beyond FMEA: the structured what-if technique (SWIFT)." J Healthcare Risk Manage 2012, 31: 23–29 with the aim of being quicker than more intensive methods like Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).

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Subject-matter expert

A subject-matter expert (SME) or domain expert is a person who is an authority in a particular area or topic.

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Taguchi methods

Taguchi methods (タグチメソッド) are statistical methods, or sometimes called robust design methods, developed by Genichi Taguchi to improve the quality of manufactured goods, and more recently also applied to engineering, biotechnology, marketing and advertising.

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Top-down and bottom-up design

Top-down and bottom-up are both strategies of information processing and knowledge ordering, used in a variety of fields including software, humanistic and scientific theories (see systemics), and management and organization.

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Toyota

, usually shortened to Toyota, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

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United States Department of Defense

The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Viking program

The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2.

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Voyager program

The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, to study the outer Solar System.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analysis

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