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Quality glossary
FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) guides teams through brainstorming what could go wrong, prioritising risks, and implementing mitigations before customers are impacted.
Steps in an FMEA
Teams list potential failure modes, evaluate severity, occurrence, and detection scores, and calculate the risk priority number. High-risk items move into targeted action plans.
Linking FMEA to other tools
Insights from Root Cause Analysis feed preventive controls back into production processes.
Documented mitigations transition into CAPA assignments that teams track to completion.
Collaborating on FMEA in KaizenQ
KaizenQ captures risk ratings next to inspection templates. The platform helps prioritise inspections where FMEA has highlighted high-severity modes.
Key takeaways
- FMEA anticipates failures before they reach customers.
- Risk scoring focuses attention on high-severity issues.
- Integration with CAPA and RCA ensures mitigations are executed.