Week 06 Assignment – Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
Purpose:
This assignment provides students with the opportunity to identify a high-risk process in the practice setting and then conduct a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA).
The FMEA is a systematic, proactive approach to assess risk of failure and harm in a high-risk process, and identify areas for process improvement.
PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT FOR THE CHART
- Use the FMEA Table as displayed in Figure 1 at the end of Week 5 lesson. A copy of the table is also available in an Excel Spreadsheet.
- Steps in the process
- Failure modes, failure causes, and failure effects
- Likelihood of Occurrence (1-10)
- Likelihood of Detection (1-10)
- Severity (1-10)
- Risk Profile Number (RPN)
- Actions to Reduce Occurrence of Failure
Instructions:
- Use the MS Excel table FMEA for High Risk Process to fill out your failure and effect analysis according to the IHI lesson.
- Attach your Excel table below and ‘submit for grade’.
