Professional articles "Knowledge is the resource of the future!" (Winfried Dietz)
  • Ishikawa diagram

    The Ishikawa diagram(orcause & effect diagram) was developed in 1943 by Kaoru Ishikawa.

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  • Design Review Based on Failure Mode

    Changes to current series production often have high and underestimated risks. FMEA is the defining tool for anticipating potential malfunctions and their consequences in the development process. Does this also apply to easily "manageable" design changes?

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  • Requirement Management and FMEA

    How they work together!

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  • Allocating prevention and detection controls to an evaluation

    by Winfried Dietz (Dietz Consultants) FMEA evaluations: Discussing severity, occurrence, detection effectively in team meetings and taking decisions. The core of risk analysis (5th Step of the VDA/AIAG FMEA Handbook 2019) is the application of evaluation tables to risk assessment. The conceptual models for FMEA evaluation are presented below.

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  • The load with Special Characteristics in FMEA

    by Dr. Uwe-Klaus Jarosch (Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH) How does FMEA help to determine Special Characteristics? A proposed solution. FMEAs describe technology. Special Characteristics (SC) are required in some industries, such as to add technological exclamation marks. The article presents how the FMEA tool helps to determine SC with 3 additional rules.

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  • System Safety - Holistic view by means of the FMEA

    by Dr. Adam Schnellbach (AVL List GmbH) Modern mechatronic systems can lead to a wide variety of hazards. These in turn often belong to different and partially overlapping security domains. The following article on "System Safety" examines whether and how an integrated FMEA can map all of these domains.

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