All product development includes an assessment of performance, quality and reliability before a product reaches market. This is especially true in the automotive industry, where manufacturers offer ...

Google “FMEA” and you’re likely to find a variety of definitions. Risk assessment tool. Process methodology. Predictive failure analysis. It’s used as a noun, a verb and an adjective. So, what is it ...

What is FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)? FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) is a step-by-step approach for collecting knowledge about possible points of failure in a design, ...

A Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a “bottom-up” type of system analysis that is required for the standards certification of functional safety: IEC 61508 and all the standards deriving from ...

Problems and defects are expensive. Customers understandably place high expectations on manufacturers and service providers to deliver quality and reliability. Often, faults in products and services ...

During product development, design engineers make a wide variety of choices. It is motivating to chase options that might produce a high level of performance. However, what is the likelihood of those ...

While Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a very effective method for driving reliability and quality improvements, when used improperly, this tool can also result in unidentified root causes, ...

This paper describes the methodology employed during the development of a System on Chip (SoC) platform developed for automotive applications. The methodology is based on the following major aspects.

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) software is used to track trends, generate statistics such as mean time between failure (MTBF), and determine the root causes of field failures (usually for ...