Length: 2 Days
Applied Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Workshop, Safety Critical Process Analysis
Applied Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Workshop, Safety Critical Process Analysis covers the FMEA approach, a structured way to identify and address potential problems, or failures and their resulting effects on the system or safety process before an adverse event occurs. Root cause analysis (RCA) is on the other hand a structured way to address problems after they occur. FMEA involves identifying and eliminating process failures for the purpose of preventing an undesirable event when it comes to safety.
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is an essential part of any safety process or product design or redesign activity. FMEA is a proactive, quantitative, qualitative, step-by-step approach for identifying and analyzing all potential points of failure in any product or service. This team-based activity can dramatically improve product performance. It can also reduce manufacturing issues at the component, system, and processing level.
By attending this customized FMEA training course for Safety Management Group, FMEA for Safety Critical Design Processes are discussed and the attendees will learn how to examine processes in any of the specific safety areas to proactively reduce risks to safety and improve quality of processes. FMEA can be used to identify gaps and develop actions to make the safety process more efficient and reliable.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Describe what the FMEA is and how it is used
- Develop skills to perform FMEA
- Differentiate applied FMEA to design, process, products and components
- Apply the major elements of FMEA approach to safety analysis
- Demonstrate ability to complete a FMEA to safety analysis
- Compare and contrast FMEA to Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), Common Cause Failure Analysis (CCFA),, Operational/Support Hazard Analysis (OSHA), Cause Consequence Analysis (CCA), Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) and Petri Nets (PN)
Course Topics:
Overview of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- The history of FMEAs, standards, and team responsibilities
- WHAT an FMEA is
- The general principles of an FMEA
- FMEA as “bottom-up” type of system analysis
- WHY they are used
- When to use FMEA
- WHEN an FMEA is created
- WHO is on the FMEA development team?
- HOW the FMEA is completed
- System components and elements
- How systems and its parts potentially fail
- System-level effect of a component failure
- Process vs Design FMEA
- Design and verification
- FMEA as a verification tool
Applied FMEA for Functional Safety
- Overview of Reliability, availability, and safety
- Overview of functional Safety
- Safety Standards certification of functional safety
- IEC 61508 FMEA as an important tool for testing for functional safety
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
- Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP)
- Common Cause Failure Analysis (CCFA),
- Operational/Support Hazard Analysis (OSHA)
- Cause Consequence Analysis (CCA)
- Bayesian Belief Network (BBN)
- Petri Nets (PN)
Adapting the FMEA for Safety Critical Design Processes
- Understanding FMEA as a Tool for Testing Functional Safety
- FMEA as the quantitative or probabilistic analysis of functional safety systems
- Component of the functional safety system be considered in the FMEA
- Overview of FMEDA (Failure Mode and Effects Diagnostic Analysis)
Extending the FMEA Method for Safety Design Processes
- System Safety
- The range of possible effects
- Ways in which the failure mode can occur
- Ways in which the failure mode can be detected and isolated
- Safeguards that are in place to protect against accidents resulting from the failure mode
- Use the results in decision making
- System improvements
- The Traditional FMEA Method and Meaning
Overview of Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- What Is a Fault Tree Analysis?
- Fault tree construction
- Fault Tree Analysis Technique
- Fault Tree Model
- Applied FTA for Functional Safety
- Analysis contrasts and complement to “top down” analytical approaches such as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)