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Failure Mode and Effect Analysis or <b>FMEA</b> is a structured method to analyze component and system reliability. It is a framework to look at how something fails (failure mode) and what happens when it does (failure effect). | Failure Mode and Effect Analysis or <b>FMEA</b> is a structured method to analyze component and system reliability. It is a framework to look at how something fails (failure mode) and what happens when it does (failure effect). | ||
=Basics= | =Basics= | ||
| + | At a lay level, a FMEA should be a list of what-ifs, each "what-if" being looked at in multiple ways: | ||
| + | * What will happen to the car if this thing goes wrong? | ||
| + | * How likely is this thing to go wrong? | ||
| + | * What can we do to stop this? | ||
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=When to use FMEA= | =When to use FMEA= | ||
==Design Phase== | ==Design Phase== | ||
Revision as of 11:52, 26 April 2024
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis or FMEA is a structured method to analyze component and system reliability. It is a framework to look at how something fails (failure mode) and what happens when it does (failure effect).
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Basics
At a lay level, a FMEA should be a list of what-ifs, each "what-if" being looked at in multiple ways:
- What will happen to the car if this thing goes wrong?
- How likely is this thing to go wrong?
- What can we do to stop this?
