FMEA & Equipment Criticality

What you'll learn

• Explain the purpose of FMEA and work the worksheet flow from function through failure mode, effect, cause, controls and actions
• Score severity, occurrence and detection against agreed anchored scales and calculate a risk priority number
• Describe the known limitations of RPN and apply severity-first action thresholds instead of a single cut-off
• Rank equipment criticality using a consequence x likelihood matrix that covers safety, environment, production and cost
• Use criticality to select maintenance strategy, set spares stocking decisions and prioritise inspection and backlog work
• Keep FMEAs alive by feeding incidents, repeat failures and modifications back into the analysis

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.