PFMEA Starts Before the First Defect
Use PFMEA logic to identify failure modes, effects, causes, controls, and action priorities before release.
The move: Ask how the process could fail while there is still time to design the failure out. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is a structured way to ask how a product or process could fail, what the effect would be, why it could happen, how it would be detected or prevented, and what action should reduce risk. In automotive manufacturing, the process FMEA is especially useful because many failures are created by sequence, orientation, access, tooling, material handling, or inspection design, not by bad intent. The mechanism is prevention. A PFMEA shifts the team from reacting to escapes toward…
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