Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) is a tool that works to prevent process and product problems before they occur.
I like to define FMEA’s as an organized brainstorm. The process examines a product or process and asks what could go wrong. Then the team systematically determines and rank orders for each failure mode:
- the severity of the problem when it occurs
- the probability of the problem occurring
- the ability to detect the problem before it occurs
In a business environment ,one of the essential competency for effective executive or manager is problem solving skill.In this basic version, we attempted to give holistic way of solving the problems step by step methodologies and application of of relevant tools & techniques in each step .It is surely useful for beginners.
In a business environment ,one of the essential competency for effective executive or manager is problem solving skill.In this basic version, we attempted to give holistic way of solving the problems step by step methodologies and application of of relevant tools & techniques in each step .It is surely useful for beginners.
This handy guide is for anyone involved in problem solving and improvement activities. It contains guidelines on the use of many of the tools and techniques which can be used as part of a Continuous Improvement process.
Does it annoy you that in spite of regularly performing Preventive Maintenance (PM) on your equipment it continues to breakdown? Some may call this insanity – Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. So what do you do? Maybe take a close look at your current PM Program.
There are known best practices which will not only enhance your PM program but also increase equipment reliability. Remember most work comes from PM and PdM and then it must be planned correctly, scheduled with production, executed to schedule and to specifications. If this occurs you will be seeing the results. "less breakdowns"
Check out this article and post your comments please.
Zero Defect programme explained through case study of the STC Valve at the Indian leading supplier, which was facing a problem of week and year punch rework of STC value, various tools and techniques for the operational and organizational descision making.
Structured problem solving - training packageCraig Zedwick
Training package designed for a wide range of professionals who need to solve problems in a corporate context. Introduction to statistical concepts that are relevant to analyzing data to find the root cause and develop solutions. Customer-focused content
PDCA Cycle In Quality Management And Problem Solving PowerPoint Presentation ...SlideTeam
Every organization needs to adapt to the ever-changing business environment. Sensing this need, we have come up with these content-ready change management PowerPoint presentation slides. These change management PPT templates will help you deal with any kind of an organizational change. Be it with people, goals or processes. The business solutions incorporated here will help you identify the organizational structure, create vision for change, implement strategies, identify resistance and risk, manage cost of change, get feedback and evaluation, and much more. With the help of various change management tools and techniques illustrated in this presentation design, you can achieve the desired business outcomes. This business transition PowerPoint design also covers certain related topics such as change model, transformation strategy, change readiness, change control, project management and business process. By implementing the change control methods mentioned in the presentation, you will be able to have a smooth transition in an organization. So, without waiting much, download our extensively researched change management framework presentation. With our Change Management Presentation slides, understand the need for change and plan to go through it without any hassles.
This handy guide is for anyone involved in problem solving and improvement activities. It contains guidelines on the use of many of the tools and techniques which can be used as part of a Continuous Improvement process.
Does it annoy you that in spite of regularly performing Preventive Maintenance (PM) on your equipment it continues to breakdown? Some may call this insanity – Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. So what do you do? Maybe take a close look at your current PM Program.
There are known best practices which will not only enhance your PM program but also increase equipment reliability. Remember most work comes from PM and PdM and then it must be planned correctly, scheduled with production, executed to schedule and to specifications. If this occurs you will be seeing the results. "less breakdowns"
Check out this article and post your comments please.
Zero Defect programme explained through case study of the STC Valve at the Indian leading supplier, which was facing a problem of week and year punch rework of STC value, various tools and techniques for the operational and organizational descision making.
Structured problem solving - training packageCraig Zedwick
Training package designed for a wide range of professionals who need to solve problems in a corporate context. Introduction to statistical concepts that are relevant to analyzing data to find the root cause and develop solutions. Customer-focused content
PDCA Cycle In Quality Management And Problem Solving PowerPoint Presentation ...SlideTeam
Every organization needs to adapt to the ever-changing business environment. Sensing this need, we have come up with these content-ready change management PowerPoint presentation slides. These change management PPT templates will help you deal with any kind of an organizational change. Be it with people, goals or processes. The business solutions incorporated here will help you identify the organizational structure, create vision for change, implement strategies, identify resistance and risk, manage cost of change, get feedback and evaluation, and much more. With the help of various change management tools and techniques illustrated in this presentation design, you can achieve the desired business outcomes. This business transition PowerPoint design also covers certain related topics such as change model, transformation strategy, change readiness, change control, project management and business process. By implementing the change control methods mentioned in the presentation, you will be able to have a smooth transition in an organization. So, without waiting much, download our extensively researched change management framework presentation. With our Change Management Presentation slides, understand the need for change and plan to go through it without any hassles.
Invented in the 1930’s by Toyota Founder Kiichiro Toyoda’s father Sakichi and made popular in the 1970s by the Toyota Production System, the 5 Whys strategy involves looking at any problem and asking: “Why?” and “What caused this problem?”
PROBLEMS ARE THE GOLDEN EGGS
problems??? day by day in our proffessional life we faces so many problems, but didn't recognize about the problem. Because we are habituate to facing to problems, if we want to solve the problems, first we can feel YES am facing a problem then you have a chance to solve it... after that we should find is it REPEATATIVE problem or New problem, on the bases of the issue we can take further steps, how to break it. how to analyse, how to find countermeasure, how to check is it suitable or not, how to make standard
Basically this slid will help to Learn software quality testing on scratch level.
Software testing is the quality measures conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service. Test techniques include, but are not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs. It is an important part of the entire Software Development ensuring that the functionalities of the system are tested to the finest and assures the quality, correctness and completeness of the product. Software testing, depending on the testing method employed, can be implemented at any time in the development process.
Stages of testing:
o Test planning
o Test Analysis
o Test verification & Construction
o Test execution
o Defect tracking and management
o Quality Analysis Bug tracking
o Report
o Final testing & implementation
this is a problem-solving toolkit, it's really useful it has different Approaches to solving problems everybody can use organizations, business people even familes
Test Automation in Agile: A Successful ImplementationTechWell
Many teams feel that they are forced to make an either/or decision when it comes to investing time to automate tests versus executing them manually. Sometimes a “silver bullet” tool is purchased, and testers are forced to use it when there may be a better option; other times unskilled team members are designated the automation engineers; and often there is a lack of good guidance on what to automate. These pitfalls cause product owners to de-prioritize those tasks when there’s a better way. Melissa Tondi shares how test teams should evaluate automated tools, both open source and commercial; areas to be aware of when traditional manual testers transition to automation engineers; and recommended priorities for automating tests. By streamlining automation tasks in your project and incorporating these recommendations, you’ll find that your automation intersection becomes a clearly marked thruway to a successfully released product.
The Development Battle Nobody Talks About (Achieving DevOps at Enterprise Scale)Plutora
Release management is critical to bridge the DevOps gap.
Read this guide to learn best practices for implementing a successful DevOps release management environment in the enterprise.
A paradigm shift for testing - how to increase productivity 10x!Vasco Duarte
European IT industry need to deal with a huge salary gap with developing countries.
How can we increase our productivity and quality to compensate for the salary differences? This is a systems-thinking / Lean based approach to that problem
RCM is a process used to identify what Preventive Maintenance or Condition Based Maintenance you need to implement so you get the Reliability you need from your equipment.
Doing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) helps us take care of our equipment. And, taking care of our equipment is very much like taking care of ourselves.
An overview of the basic process to create an ALT using one of 6 different approaches. Slides used for presentation to the ASQ Silicon Valley evening meeting on Nov 15th 2017.
We work on projects to improve reliability. There may not be the field data immediately available. Let’s explore what you can do to improve the overall program while delivering on your project. Specifically, what’s with cost and procurement?
Detailed Information: As a reliability professional we often work with a team focused on improving the reliability of single product or system. We work with the resources and capabilities of the organization. For me a reliability project is one product or line, a program is the entire organization and lifecycle. We bring specific tools and knowledge, yet rely on the overall reliability culture of an organization to be successful
The overall reliability program may or may not have the field data, root cause analysis and other element of information that allow us to effectively solve problems for a specific project. In some cases we have to work to improve the overall program while striving to create a reliable product. Let’s explore what you should do when you are building a reliability model for a new project and would like to use previous reliability history.
If the data is not available what do you do? What are your options? Let’s discuss what happens when the procurement team consistently selects the least expensive and least reliable components. What are your options? You can and should change the way entire departments do business, for the good of the project and the organization. Let’s discuss the scope of your role as a reliability engineer.
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 19 May 2015.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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Speakers:
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DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
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In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
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10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
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Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
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How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
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Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !
FMEA: How to Find the Value
1. fmsreliability.com http://www.fmsreliability.com/education/finding-value-fmea/
FMEA: How to Find the Value
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Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) is a tool that works to prevent process and product problems before they
occur.
I like to define FMEA’s as an organized brainstorm. The process examines a product or process and asks what could
go wrong. Then the team systematically determines and rank orders for each failure mode:
- the severity of the problem when it occurs
- the probability of the problem occurring
- the ability to detect the problem before it occurs
Good design engineers think about how the design could fail and improve the design. FMEA provides a structured
team approach to further improve the design.
Cost
The cost of an FMEA is generally easy to determine. It is the cost of the talent on the team and any specific
experiments or expenses related to the FMEA study.
The cost of changing a design based on the study is not included, assuming the design team would be already
working to improve the product. The FMEA results provides direction for improvement work, thus focusing the effort
and not adding to the effort.
Let’s say the team is five people and they spend a day working on the FMEA study. Further let’s say each
engineering has a loaded cost to the organization of $1,000 / day. Thus the engineering time cost of the study is
$5,000.
If the team does a few experiments or has specific expenses that would add to the cost. In this simple example, let’s
say they used one prototype in a short experiment to answer a few outstanding questions. To make it simple, assume
the additional cost is $5,000.
Total cost of $10,000.
Value Sources
So, what do we get for the investment of time and resources in a simple design FMEA?
The return on investiment for an FMEA study largely depends on when it is done and how well the team implements
the action items (the outcomes of the study).
It also depends on the existing knowledge about product or process problems. If we already have a long list of issues
and an easy way to prioritize them, say by analyzing field returns for an existing product, then FMEA may not add any
new information.
If on the other hand, the product is using a new design approach or the process is manipulating a new material, then
we may not have an well crafted list of issues.
FMEA is a great tool when there are unknowns or uncertainities. It is also commonly used by teams to organize and
2. manage a large number of risks.
It is not appropriate to expect any value when the study is always done despite the existing knowledge. If the study
only lists what we already know, it has little value.
When the tool is applyed in a situation that is early in the design process of a new product or process, with new
design approch/architecture or materials, and the risks of failure are either unknown or uncertain, then FMEA may
provide significant value.
In my experience, I’ve seen FMEA’s create value in three basic ways.
1. Identifing and removing faults
2. Prioritizing design improvement work
3. Cross department coordination
Let’s explore each one briefly.
Identifing and removing faults
This is obvious. Let’s say the team already knew about 10 problems that needed addressing in the design. Then the
FMEA added an additional 1 issue to resolve.
An estimate of the impact of that issue if unresolved is part of the priorization process in an FMEA thus provides a
rough estimate of the percentage of products that would have failed in the hands of customers.
The number of failures times the cost per failure provides the avoided cost.
For a simple example, let’s assume we plan on selling 10,000 units of this design. Each failures costs our
organization $500. And, in the FMEA we estimated the problem would cause about 1% of units to fail.
1% of 10,000 is 100 failures. At a cost of $500 each, that would be a cost of $50,000.
Normally, an well done FMEA will find many previously unknown problems. The issues may impact most or very few
products, yet the basic logic applies. Avoiding field failures avoids the cost of failures from occuring.
In this example, I’m only counting direct costs, such as warranty replacement or repair costs. In reality the failure cost
may include brand image or customer satisfaction reduction.
Prioritizing design improvement work
Even simple designs may have many hundreds of potential failure modes.
Solving the problems take time and resouces and solving the wrong problems adds little value. Focusing on the most
severe and likely to occur issues tends to provide the most value.
I’ve worked with hundreds of design engineers and have asked many of them what could go wrong with the current
design. Each easily can provide 3 to 5 issues that should be addressed before finalizing the design.
A problem that FMEA helps to solve is a design team of five people all working on the same product will easily create
a list of number one priorities that most likely will not overlap.
The design team generally cannot have 5 top priorities.
3. The larger the team and the more complex the product or process, the longer the list of problems to solve. Without
some way to organize the priorities, the team easily could be working aimlessly to solve individually determined top
priorities.
This generally is not an efficient use of design talent.
FMEA is not the only way to provide order, yet it does provide a well thought out and reasonable way to focus the
design team to solve the top priority problems.
In my expereince, most designers quickly consider the problems that will effect all products or have dangerous failure
modes. The balance and priorities become more difficult when the chance and servity are not as signficant.
The FMEA study let’s the team articulate the priorities clearly.
The value is found by shifting focus to the most important issues.
Let’s say a team identifies 100 issues that could improve the design. The program has the resouces to solve 20
issues before product launch.
Which 20 do you focus on?
Using the basic concept of 80% of field issues are caused by 20% of the design flaws, if we select the right 20 issues
we can avoid the majority of the field issues.
If we select randomly, we may only address 50% of the field issues. This is not likely given simple engineering
judgement will most likely indentify and solve the major issues.
So let’s say it’s in the margin, that the last four issues identified to solve in the FMEA study would have been randomly
selected otherwise. The difference is avoided field failures depends on the difference in expected impact to the cost of
failure, yet even a small difference provides enough return on the FMEA investment to provide the priortization to the
team.
Of course the prioritization creates a list with diminishing return on the effort to solve it prior to shipping. Yet, the net
effect adds value.
Cross department coordination
In most product or proces design work, the complexity of the system requires teams focusing on mechanical,
electrical and software elements of the design.
One of the dangers that each large team faces is the competition for scarce resouces. If you’ve ever been part of a
prototype allocation dicussion you know what I mean.
Each team may fully understand the risks that may cause field failures, yet they often lack the understanding from the
other teams. Each team may view the design challenges they face as the most important.
One benefit that is difficult to quantify is the ability of the study to establish cross team discussions about priorities for
the avaialble resources.
Reducing the cross team competition frees engineering and management resouces to focus on and solve the most
important problems. It makes for a better work environment, which is a real value in itself.
While difficult to quantify, it has been a regularly observed benefit in my experience.
4. Summary
FMEA is a tool.
Used wisely on projects that may benefit from the systematic identification and prioritization of potential failure
modes, it will provide significant value.