FMEA in Manufacturing Industries

Ankit Dave, Jindal Global Business School, Sonipat, Haryana.

(E-mail: 11jgbs-adave@jgu.edu.in, Mobile: +91 8295099096)

           21^st Century is a new age for development; and also puts a serious note on technology & innovation management. Industries are more focused on reliable product which provide strength to the market and similarly deliver durability to the end customer. Today product life cycle are reducing day-on-day as new technologies  are being devleoped to fill the customer needs. Successful and leading manufacturing industries are more Quality concerned. Today‘s manufacturing industries have more production potential and has greater importance with respect to management reliability and quality. Product risk or product failure in term of quality and reliability enables manufacturing industries to put corrective action on their product and its related features.  Failure mode & Effect analysis (FMEA) is an effective technique for preventing the potential problem and action needed in eradicating the cause of error in manufacturing industries.

FMEA can be used for following listed benefits

• It is an analysis of the potential error/ defect in the Product / System in the selected time period for different selective measures.
• It can also be used for the new product development which enables the company to utilize its resources for the reduction in risk and led for better risk management practices.
• It is also helpful tool for design procedure of the product development to any manufacturing industries.
• It also provide many possible solutions to the manufacturing industries in term of Cost Saving, Better Quality, Higher Reliability, Increase safety aspects of product & Enhance Customer Satisfaction. 
• Cost Saving benefits are associated with FMEA, which are less expensive to control for Design improvement / Product development for any manufacturing industries.

Organizational FMEA Process included the examination of basic Hardware, Software, Personnel and functional aspect of any manufacturing industries which identifying all ways of failure for any system and provide the failure effect and its impact on the concern product. Essential to FMEA process is the detail analysis of the corrective action that will led to prevention for the product in terms of failure effect and restore the risk for its adverse effect. According to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) 5580, Recommended Failure Modes and Effects (FMEA) Practices for Non-Automobile Applications. 

 

Figure: An Effective FMEA Process for Manufacturing Industries

(Source: http://www.reliasoft.com/newsletter/v6i1/fmea_process.htm)

FMEA is a structured framework for the industries that promotes ideas about the kinds of failures that may occur, careful analysis of specific risk/hazard areas, proper documentation of sources and assumptions, and identification of interventions that manage risks to an acceptable level.

Workshop on PRIMAVERA P6 EPPM

J.Joshuva Alexander, Jindal Global Business School, Sonipat, Haryana.

(E-mail: jos237@gmail.com, Mobile: +91 8053464429)

About CADD Centre:

CADD Centre is the Asia’s largest CAD Company partnership with Primavera Systems Inc., the world's leading project and portfolio management software Company in August 2007. This CADD Centre is fully geared up to provide advanced courses on Primavera with certified instructors. They also having franchise-based training centers for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), offers over 100 courses for students and working professionals of Mechanical, Civil, Electrical & Electronics engineering, Architecture, and Project Management disciplines. They focus on industry-institute partnership initiatives, their courses are constantly updated with industry inputs on CAD, CAE, Graphics and Project Management. The services of CADD include CAD Training, CAD Software sales, full scale monochrome and color scanners, A0 LED printers, document management and software development.

They have successfully trained about 7,00,000 professionals from diverse engineering, graphic and management backgrounds. They are also preferred training partner of more than 4500 corporate houses in India and abroad.

 About the workshop

Group photo with Senior Instructor, CADD Center, Dwarka



It was a one day workshop, started with the brief introduction about the industry standard concepts of project management and tools and techniques being used by the organizations. The instructor explained the pros and cons of using Microsoft Excel and the extent it could be employed in the project management. Having said so he took our attention towards the Microsoft Project software explained its features, he also highlighted that Microsoft project is more user friendly and compared with that of Microsoft excel. He further went on to give detail illustration on Primavera, its present version and it’s superiority over its previous versions

At the end of the day each one of us was provided with primavera P6 software installed computers were given a sample assignment to get hands on training mode.

 Learning’s from the workshop:

•  Primavera P6 EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management) is now the product of Oracle.
• It provides 100% web based solution for managing projects of any size, and adapts to various levels of complexity across projects.
• It provides executives with a real time view of their organization.
• Primavera P6 EPPM easily scale from a single user on a small project to 10,000 of users engaged in Millions of activities.
• It can be used through desktop computers, laptops, or through cloud computing. It also has application for iphone and ipad.
• The software is used for planning executing and monitoring of projects.
• This software has the ability to allocate human resource with the project online. And we can monitor every individual work allocated or completed. Normalizing of work distribution can be seen very well through different graphs. Therefore it enhances the maximum utility of the individual without over loading of work.  
• Time sheets in Primavera is used as tracking tool to gain insights into costs and resource use.
• We can generate a report and analytics with proper charts which would drive us to make sound decisions and gives updates of value mapping of the project cost.
• Along with the project schedule, we can allocate the required human resources with their working hours and cost per hour. This helps resource manage to identify and allocate the required number of people at right time at right cost.
• In primavera the calendar is based on days and not by dates. This would help to us to generate a holiday list according to the company norms. The festive holidays has to be done manually for all the years estimated in a project. As dates are not fixed for every month or year, but the days are fixed (Monday-Sunday).
• We can create a security profiles. Now the security can be set at every level of work. Who can see the project, who can edit the project, which can only input and generate data. There are few areas where only top management can take decision. So multi-level Security can be setup for the data protection and validation.
• As primavera is effective but costly software so only 8% to 10% of companies are using Primavera in India and nearly 12% of companies are using MS Project.

In a nutshell it was a small step towards excelling in the field of project management and its supportive tool PRIMAVERA P6 EPPM.

Acknowledgement:

I would like to acknowledge the immense effort of Prof. Saroj Koul, Octaphi club advisor/Mentor for given this opportunity to us to learn about Primavera and I am thankful to Octaphi Operations Management Club members and other enthusiasts from JGBS for participating this workshop.