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FMEA Basics

Find and rank failure modes

FMEA lists potential failures, rates their severity, likelihood, and detectability, and calculates priority numbers to focus mitigations on the highest risks in products or processes.

List Failures

Identify steps/components and possible failure modes.

Score

Rate severity, occurrence, detection; compute priority (RPN).

Mitigate

Address high RPN items; rescore after fixes.

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