By @isarojbehera
By @isarojbehera
By @isarojbehera
Results: This Pareto Chart shows that approx. 70% of the document complaints reported
involve quality certificates.
Significance: More care should be given to how quality certificates are written and added
to the shipping package.
When analyzing data about the frequency of
problems or causes in a process.
When there are many problems or causes and
you want to focus on the most significant.
When analyzing broad causes by looking at their
specific components.
When communicating with others about your
data.
The main advantages of Pareto charts are
that they are easy to understand as well as to
present.
Many managers prefer to see an analysis that
In
large systems, computer algorithms are
needed to accomplish the quantitative
analysis.
Begun in the 1940s by the United States military, FMEA
was further developed by the aerospace and automotive
industries.
FMEA is a step-by-step approach for identifying all
possible failures:
- in a design (“design FMEA”),
- in a manufacturing or assembly process (“process FMEA”),
- or in a final product or service (“use FMEA”).
“Failures” are any errors or defects, especially ones that
affect the customer, and can be potential or actual.
“Failure modes” means the ways, or modes, in which
something might fail.
“Effects analysis” refers to studying the consequences, or
effects, of those failures.
Failure can be represented by a Risk Priority Number (RPN).
Risk Priority Numbers (RPN’s), can be ranked according to
the following:
RPN = (Potential Severity) x (Likelihood of Occurrence) x
(Ability to Detect).
For all numerical weights, a common industry standard is to
us a 1 to 5 scale. For likelihood of occurrence for example
use 1 to represent “practically impossible” and 5 to indicate
“occurs frequently.”
When applying FMEA, the high-priority failures—identified by
higher RPN’s—are examined first. For the failure, a root
cause is identified and a corrective action is developed to
eliminate the root cause .
Recommended action(s) to address potential failures that
have a high RPN could include for example:
-specific inspection, testing or quality procedures;
-selection of different components or materials;
-limiting the operating range or environmental stresses;
-redesign of the item to avoid the failure mode;
-monitoring mechanisms;
-performing preventative maintenance;
-operator retraining;
-inclusion of back-up systems or redundancy.
Assign responsibility and a target completion date for the
above actions. This makes responsibility clear-cut and
facilitates tracking.
Indicate the action(s) taken for each high ranking
failure (those having a high RPN).
After those actions have been taken, re-assign a