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.