PFMEA Benefits

1. PFMEA Benefits By Preventingerrors or problems… You prevent waste, improve quality and cycle-times, and reduce costs ! • You can effectively Prevent • rework, retest, re-inspection, poor quality, higher costs, etc. • It costs companies less to prevent problems than to react to them (Firefighting = Dollars Wasted) • You can improve Cycle-times • Time, Labor, and money is more effectively spent on “preventing” rather than “reacting” to errors • PFMEAs make teams more effective!

2. How do we perform a PFMEA? • #1: Identify the process or product that requires the PFMEA Analysis … • Recommended: • New processes being launched • Business, transaction, service, or manufacturing process • Current processes with poor yields, rework, errors, defects, poor cycle-times, high costs, high customer dissatisfaction, etc.

3. How to perform a PFMEA • Complete the next column in the PFMEA tool… • Column 3 – Brainstorm and list all the “effects” of the failure mode(s )if it actually occurred. The “effects” of a failure, defect or error could be both the internal (e.g. at the next operation) effect and the external effect (e.g. at the customer) Drive to Work Stuck in Traffic Late for Work In Column 3 – List all of the potential (internal and external) effects of the Failure Modes, defects or errors : Example-Customer rejects, poor fit, rework, cycle-time increase, test failure This “effects” list will help you determine the “Severity” ranking to be placed in column 4