FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS IN AN AUTOMOTIVE FIRM.

Design of web based failure mode and effect analysis in an automotive firm



Design of web based failure mode and effect analysis in an automotive firm

 

 

Question 1 What type of product design and manufacturing problem can the FMEA web approach handle most cost effectively?

The reliability and maintenance of machinery is critical to many manufacturers as down time for maintenance or repair must be kept to an absolute minimum. FMEA is a tool which assists the designers and builders of tooling and equipment to determine when to improve reliability of components and where to use common parts. All R&M activities must consider the cost of ownership or total Life Cycle Costs (LCC) which must be determined well in advance of building the equipment. FMEA is an integral part of this LCC determination. QAI has trained and facilitated many machinery and equipment FMEAs to assist in lowering LCC and preventing costly down and excessive repair time.

FMEA Working Model

 

Another discerned difficulty in the FMEA method is that some DFMEA methods did not address the durability issue. For demonstration, if the conceive intent for a scheme is to have a seven-year/100,000-mile error-free life, the FMEA group should record it under the function proposed for the durability issue. Functions recorded in an FMEA report should assist as a verbiage interpretation of technology drawings. They furthermore should have a close connection to technology specifications, which encompass comprehensive obligations in function, reliability and safety(Liu, 2002, pp.72-7). In general, a business should share this purposeful obligation data with engaged partners in the whole supplier string of connections encompassing the OEM clientele and distinct tiers of suppliers when it is necessary. In performing FMEA, all parties of the FMEA group require to realise purposeful obligations of the scheme, subsystems and components(Raheja, 1981, pp.374-9).

The FMEA report, or its matching documentation, should be a part of the technology bundle (engineering drawings, technology check specifications and any other essential paperwork) that is distributed with the whole supplier string of connections, encompassing the OEM clientele and distinct tiers of suppliers. Knowing how to construct a part and what to check is not enough. One should realise why the part is a part of the scheme in alignment to get the entire information for the part that is being produced. It is this completeness in information that assists businesses to construct protected, robust and dependable parts. To get this entire information of the constituents we conceive and construct, the staff engaged desires to talk about, reconsider and revise the FMEA accounts with the whole FMEA group at distinct points of the merchandise development stage. Figure 2 shows that FMEA presents downstream suppliers a critical connection between technology drawings and the information about how to construct the part and between technology check specifications and the information about what to check in the part. A good FMEA method calls for an iterative method in reconsidering FMEA outcomes that proceeds back and forward between all engaged parties and will ...