CRITICAL CONSIDERATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE FMEA

The FMEA = Failure Mode and Effect Analysis [10], [15] is a method to recognize and to eliminate mis-takes already during the product design process and in particular in the earliest stages. Carried out con-sistently, many mistakes and/or sources of errors can be detected and eliminated with this method. Since the FMEA does not detect all mistakes and/or sources of error in the product development process and does not consider the human being during the usage phase (i.e. from startup to disposal of a prod-uct) as a source of error it is not yet satisfactory re-garding effectiveness and efficiency. Thus the FMEA is still not completely accepted.The proposed paper presents ideas and approaches how these problems mentioned above can be encountered and which in-fluences and/or changes derive from that for future FMEA-sessions