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Article: Failure analysis beats Murphy's Law: failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis is a reliability engineering method that helps product-development teams identify and prioritize the severity of potential functional failures of new designs.
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis is a reliability engineering method that helps product-development teams identify and prioritize the severity of potential functional failures of new designs.
Assessing the reliability of a design--whether for a new product or a process--is an essential step in modern quality-engineering procedures. Manufacturers use reliability engineering not only to satisfy the rising expectations of today's customers but also to avoid complications resulting from mounting government regulations and the courts' increasingly tough stance on product liability.
Although crucial to a successful product, reliability ...