Friday, 22 July 2011

DFMEA at work

Had a third party (that did not have any experience with product failure rates / history) conduct a DFMEA on a protection relay.  The team identified 4 failure modes with RPN above acceptable levels.  Turns out those 4 failure modes are on the units top 10 for service calls and repairs.

Even if not used as part of a Reliability Centred Enterprise Management Strategy DFMEAs provide great value.

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