<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> A failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is the most often used (and required by customers) tool for quality planning. The FMEA examines possible errors with their consequences for customers as well as their possible causes. This analysis can be realized on several levels (structure or process), and thus it may become a subject of various teams, from engineers of whole parts to those dealing with individual units, from workers preparing the manufacturing processes as a whole to those who prepare (or control or even perform) individual operations. The aim of this work is the analysis of risks using the FMEA for a selected production process and proposal of measures to eliminate risks.</p></abstract>

A failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is the most often used (and required by customers) tool for quality planning. The FMEA examines possible errors with their consequences for customers as well as their possible causes. This analysis can be realized on several levels (structure or process), and thus it may become a subject of various teams, from engineers of whole parts to those dealing with individual units, from workers preparing the manufacturing processes as a whole to those who prepare (or control or even perform) individual operations. The aim of this work is the analysis of risks using the FMEA for a selected production process and proposal of measures to eliminate risks.

Risk Analysis of Production Process for Automotive and Electrical Engineering Industry using FMEA

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Quality and Engineering Technologies, Tr. Andreja Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

A failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is the most often used (and required by customers) tool for quality planning. The FMEA examines possible errors with...

Risk Analysis of Production Process for Automotive and Electrical Engineering Industry using FMEA

Published Online: Jan 29, 2014

Page range: 87 - 89

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2013-0022

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