Now more than ever, it's vital to prevent failures and the excessive costs involved in fixing them. By identifying potential risks long before they're actually encountered, you can preserve the health of your organization's bottom line.

In this course, learn how to reduce the risk of failure before design and manufacturing by studying the potential for product/process failure and initiating early preventive action. This workshop-intensive course is designed to provide hands-on training in conducting reliability and safety analyses for product design.

Participants are introduced to the guidelines for use of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA), two analytical tools that are used to examine processes and pinpoint areas where problems are likely to occur. Workshops cover how to use FMEA and FTA in order to conduct risk analyses, assess design improvements, and control engineering changes.

Course Objectives

• Explain FMEA, “the right way.”
• Describe the hazard analysis process.
• Understand hazard analysis at the system level.
• Apply FMEA at the system level.
• Perform safety analysis at the subsystem level.
• Perform reliability analysis at subsystem level.
• Describe process FMEA.
• Conduct fault tree analysis (FTA).
• Understand FMEA for serviceability.
• Describe how to control engineering changes.
• Explain how to control unresolved hazards.
• Implement FMEA and hazard analysis.

Topics

• Introduction to FMEA
• Design FMEA
• Severity ratings and special characteristics
• Product design occurrence and detection rating determination
• Process FMEA
• Severity rating adjustments for process characteristics
• Identification of special characteristics related to process parameters
• Process design occurrence and detection rating determination

Who Should Attend

Recommended for engineers and managers in design, manufacturing, service, quality assurance, reliability, and research and development. Also recommended for project managers, field service managers, and those in regulatory affairs.

CEUs: 1.5
Days: 2