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FMEA is great tool used in many quality, reliability, and risk analysis processes.  It is not a highly sophisticated tool and is certainly not technically complex.  As a reliability tool, the FMEA is extremely effective in identifying the risks of greatest concern and thus focusing design and test activities to eliminate that risk or reduce it to tolerable levels. Even though there is software available to assist in performing the FMEA, a spreadsheet is often adequate.  Getting the proper team together with the patience to conscientiously fill out the spreadsheet is often a more difficult task. A typical FMEA process for a design FMEA might be composed of the following steps: ¨       Step 1: Review the Process/Design ¨       Step 2: Brainstorm potential failure modes ¨       Step 3: …

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