Failure Mode and Effect Analysis: Fmea from Theory to Execution

This book explains the process of conducting system, design, process, service, and machine FMEAs, and provides the rationale for doing so. Readers will understand what FMEA is, the different types of FMEA, how to construct an FMEA, and the linkages between FMEA and other tools. Stamatis offer a summary of tools/methodologies used in FMEA along with a glossary to explain key terms and principles. The updated edition includes information about the new ISO 9000:2000 standard, the Six Sigma approach to FMEA, a special section on automotive requirements related to ISO/TS 16949, the “robustness” concept, and TE 9000 and the requirements for reliability and maintainability.

The accompanying CD-ROM offers FMEA forms and samples, design review checklist, criteria for evaluation, basic reliability formulae and conversion failure factors, guidelines for RPN calculations and designing a reasonable safe product, and diagrams, and examples of FMEAs with linkages to robustness.

Stamatis has some 25 years of experience in management, training, and consulting. The second edition of his text on failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) covers minor changes and additions to the FMEA process since publication of the 1995 edition. It includes new chapters on ISO 9000:2000; FMEA and Six Sigma; machine FMEA; robustness and the linkages of FMEA to boundary/p/interfacing diagrams, and the characteristic matrix; an expanded chapter on the automotive industry and the requirements of the ISO/TS 19649; and an updated glossary. The CD-ROM covers all the appendices and added information. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR