Use FMEA Before a Process Change
Apply FMEA thinking to identify failure modes, effects, and mitigations for a process change.
A new specimen handoff has not failed yet, but peak-hour complexity creates foreseeable risk. Map the process, name failure modes, judge their effects, and mitigate the highest-risk weak points before launch. The trap is treating a clean pilot as proof that the process is safe at full speed. Step 1 Map handoff steps: collect, label, place in queue, scan, transport. A process map gives the team a shared object to interrogate. Step 2 Ask failure-mode questions: wrong label, wrong queue, missed scan, delayed transport. Failures are named as ways a step can break, not as vague concerns. Step 3 Choose…
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