Dictionary definition: FMECA

Article: Failure analysis beats Murphy's Law: failure mode, effects, and ...
Mechanical Engineering-CIME;  September 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... mode, effect, and criticality analysis (FMECA), an extensive and straightforward method ... on the customer's use of a product. FMECA, Kapur said, attempts to detect and evaluate ... and rigorous design-review procedures, FMECA can help multidisciplinary product-development ...

Article: Electro-pneumatic.(the American Association of Railroads, through ...
Railway Age;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... the cable-based system, with a similar FMECA process begun for the radio-based specification ... aerospace and defense industries developed the FMECA process to identify hazards and the potential ... Engineering, under contract to TTCI, began the FMECA on S-42 00 in the fall of 1998. Representatives ...

Article: The Quality Connection: Put patient safety process changes to the ...
Hospital Peer Review;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... mode, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA). At each step in the process, determine ... caregiver to the next? The results of this FMECA analysis is used to further refine what ... additional safeguards or revisions are needed. FMECA and stress testing are theoretical techniques ...

Article: Quality systems - Risk analysis seen benefitting firms in recall ...
Validation Times;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... analysis (FMEA) and failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA). MacFarland, noting FDA does not specify which method to use, considers FMEA and FMECA equal. He advised companies to adopt risk analysis according to international ...

Article: Risk Analysis for Aseptic Processing: The Akers-Agalloco Method
Pharmaceutical Technology;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... HAZOP); * Failure Mode, Effect, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). These commonly used methods have proven successful in a ... an equal effect on the end result. Risk, as defined within FMECA, is a multiplication of the criticality of an occurrence by ...

Article: GAM2I: GAMDEC+ makes FMECAs easy.
M2 Presswire;  September 17, 1998 ;     471 words ... ... version of its Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) package: GAMDEC+. Used in industries that range from automotive ... friendly. It offers a full screen zoom function for use in FMECA groups. The project or. system being analysed is represented ...

Article: Test Engineering -- A Concise Guide to Cost-effective Design, ...
IIE Transactions;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... greatly enhance testing were not covered in any detail, such as FMECA/FMEA, Fault Trees, Petri-Nets, Stochastic Networks, and other methods. For example, the role of FMECA/FMEA and related quality/reliability tools in testing is treated ...