Pre-mortem the pre-cooler with FMEA
Use FMEA to prioritize preventive action for a high-risk agribusiness process step.
A new berry pre-cooler must run peak volume next week without releasing warm fruit. FMEA asks: failure mode, effect, cause, current control, severity, occurrence, detection, and action priority. Teams often approve new equipment on capacity alone. That ignores the small failure modes that create quality claims under real operating conditions. Before Commissioning checklist: reaches target throughput and turns on. After Peak-readiness controls: daily sensor calibration, maximum lane loading, alarm response owner, and QA release scan for core temperature. Failure mode Temperature sensor drifts high by 3 F. The display says fruit is colder than it is. Effect Warm fruit is…
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