AIAG & VDA FMEA

A Failure Mode and Effect analysis, FMEA is a way to determine risks for, for example, a product, a process or a system. Instead of allowing only discussions and strong individuals to influence the order of priority for risks of a phenomenon, an FMEA provides a standardized way of coming to agreements about risks.

In the new version of FMEA developed by AIAG & VDA, the way to finally evaluate the risks has been improved with the aim of making the method an engine in a continuous work with risk minimization and improvements. Five “T:s” form the basis for work with FMEA according to the new model.

• FMEA InTent – Why are we doing FMEA?
• FMEA Team – Who needs to be on the team?
• FMEA Task – What work needs to be done?
• FMEA Tool – How do we conduct the analysis?
• FMEA Timing – When is this due?

A failure mode and Effect Analysis is a cross-functional, qualitative and analytical method intended to:

• evaluate possible technical risks of defects in a product or a process 
• analyze the causes and effects of such malfunctions; 
• document preventive and detection measures

A Failure Mode and Effect analysis, FMEA can be performed by:

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Knowledge and competence in FMEA should be held by many people in a company. With the new method, it becomes even more important to ensure that competence permeates the company from people who are engaged in some form of development via project groups to the company’s management team and this regardless of whether it concerns technical products or administrative services

Top management is responsible for the introduction of FMEA. Basically, it is top management that bears the final responsibility for identified risks and proposed risk reduction measures in FMEA.”

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We give you value in our FMEA trainings and build our trainings on material from VDA QMC and have also developed our own material. Therefore, we provide four options of training, depending on needs and background:

• Basic (VDA 442); Two days of basic training for people who will work with risk analysis, but who have limited knowledge since before
• Coordinator (VDA 442+); The new FMEA version supports a continuous work with risk minimization better than previous FMEA versions. This three-day course is based on vda QMC’s two-day course (442), but we have also added a day of skills development in FMEA coordination containing: Challenges, cross-functional collaboration, prioritization of (multiple) results, reporting of results, conflict management and facilitation.

Content "Overview"

Content "Upgrade" (441)

Content "Basic" (442)

Content "Coordinator" (442+)