Quality Management 2017

Example: Waking up

FMEA terminology

Failure mode

What could go wrong?

The alarm does not sound, I continue sleeping

How bad would it be?

Severity=8

Failure pathway

How this could happen?

The alarm runs out of battery

Occurrence=6

How likely is this to happen?

How unlike are we to prevent it from happening?

“non-detectability”= 2