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The Purpose of an FMEA
FMEAs help us focus on and understand the impact of potential process or product risks.
FMEA studies provide the means to evaluate risk levels thereby establishing a mechanism to prioritize risks. They lead us through a step-by-step approach of analyzing the design or process, understanding how it is supposed to function, identifying how it can fail to function as intended, determining the consequences of the potential failures, assessing the impact of the consequences, the frequency of occurrence and the ability to detect the failure. All of this information is used to prioritize actions that will lead to risk reduction and process improvement.
