DFMEA means Design failure mode and effect analysis; in practice is a group of tasks that evaluate and uncover potential failures in a process or product.
DFMEA (Design failure mode and effect analysis) highlights the causes and effects of such failures.
A typical DFMEA analysis will use a template like the one below.
Table of Contents
INDUSTRIES THAT USE DFMEA
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Software development
STEPS TO DEVELOP A DFMEA ANALYSIS
- Define product requirements
- Brainstorming potential failure
- Analyze effects
- Finding the potential cause
- Describe control for possible causes
- Evaluate the occurrence rate
- Assign a risk priority number
- Define a corrective action plan
- After the correction plan is implemented, re-evaluate the risk priority number
