FMEA template
Help your team easily spot and assess potential failures in your project, product, or service.
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What is a FMEA template?
The FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) template helps teams identify and evaluate potential failures within a project or product, allowing them to prioritize risks based on severity and occurrence.
Who can use this template?
The FMEA template can be used by various teams and professionals across different industries to systematically identify and address potential failures.
- Engineering teams: Identify potential failure modes in products, processes, or systems and evaluate their impact.
- Quality assurance and control teams: Assess risks in the product and help improve reliability and reduce defects.
- Project managers: Manage risks and create mitigation strategies.
- Healthcare professionals: Identify and mitigate risks in patient safety, equipment, and processes.
- Supply chain managers: Assess supply chain processes' risks and optimize them to prevent disruptions.
How to use this template
- Start by sharing the template Space with your team and brainstorm together to identify all the possible ways the project could fail.
- Assess each failure by evaluating its severity (impact), likelihood of occurrence, and how easily it can be detected. Then, rate each factor for every failure mode.
- Calculate the risk priority number (RPN) by multiplying severity, occurrence, and detection to prioritize which failures require immediate action.
- Develop an action plan based on the RPN, assign tasks to team members, and regularly review the template to assess effectiveness and identify new risks.