FMECA - A Business Improvement Tool
About FMECA
The Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) process has been adapted in many different ways for many different purposes. It can contribute to improved designs for products and processes, resulting in higher reliability, better quality, increased safety, enhanced customer satisfaction and reduced costs. The process can also be used to establish and optimise maintenance plans for repairable systems and/or contribute to control plans and other quality assurance procedures.
FMECA provides a knowledge base of failure mode and corrective action information that can be used as a resource in future troubleshooting efforts and as a training tool for new engineers.
Why Use FMECA
If you own, run or maintain a plant, building or factory in any industry, your primary goal will be asset reliability management. Having your assets consistently running will mean less unplanned maintenance, or unexpected downtime. The result will be an increase in production, safer working environments, meeting contract deliverables and of course, maximising profit margins.
FMECA should form an integral part of your asset reliability management regime. It is a well-proven method for identifying issues that may arise, reviewing relevant components of a plant or system to identify failure modes and their corresponding effects. This systematic approach can identify failures, their criticality and facilitate a prioritisation plan for improvement.
Our Experience with FMECA
MCP has partnered with many clients in the food, drink pharmaceutical and utilities industries to help them establish solid processes, provide training and facilitate FMECA teams to build a successful business improvement programme.
FMECA Case Study
We have prepared this Case Study - FMECA | A Proven Business Improvement Tool in the Energy and Utility Industry - to explain the challenges faced by one of our clients and how establishing a FMECA process not only solved their main issue but uncovered and resolved others through the process, including:
Asset register
Job planning
SAP hierarchy and coding
P & ID reviews
Tagging equipment
Filing of drawings
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