Areas of Concern - Reliability & Quality

The military has several areas of concern for FMEA's:

  • Many FMECA's and FMEA's offer little or no real improvement
  • Controlling supplier quality
  • Problems with tracking changes - not all changes are recorded
  • Lack of follow up to the changes to see if they are actually solving the problem
  • FMECA's and FMEA's not performed properly
  • Untrained staff performing FMEA's and FMECA's
  • Engineers do not see the value in an FMEA, they find them too labor intensive

The Fundamental Purpose of FMEA is to identify problems and improve quality, product and process.

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