Results

FMEA WWW-Survey

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

Investigation concerning spread and use of FMEA

Summary of RESULTS

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Item	Data	Detailed info
Latest update on	Jan. 21, 2000	On Status page
Number of results received
Number of results processed	160	Invalid and duplicate entrees removed
Number of countries	11	USA, IL, NL, PT, CN YG, UK, BE, NZ, AG, MY
Number FMEA-users	51
Number Non-FMEA-users	25

1.a. FMEA used in your organisation

Yes	No	Don't Know	Total
51	25	2	78

1.b. If not used why? (grouping will be done later on, some give more than 1 reason)

Blanco
Have not seen "explicit" value yet
Not enough knowledge, lack of understanding and awareness
Not applicable, no development in the organisation
No systematic techniques are used
Time consuming
Too complicated
Not useful for our software products
Not accepted yet in our industrial sector
Nothing manufactured
Problems with estimating risks, no technically valid methods available to assess risks
Conducting in-line zero defects
Not enough failures
Method not known

1.c. If not used now, intention to start with FMEA ?

Yes	No	Don't know	Not until forced
10	5	4	5

2. How often do you use FMEA?

Almost every day	Almost ones/week	At least ones/month	Several times/year	Only occasionnaly
12	12	3	16	8

3. What is the major reason for using FMEA? (multiple selection possible)

Obliged by quality system	22
Obliged by contractors	12
To improve process performance	27
To reduce costs of non-quality	5

4. What is the major difficulty when doing FMEA? (to be grouped lateron)

Blanco
To obtain quality information
Finding reliable failure data
To explain a defect in a clear an concise manner
Identifying strong preventive actions
Member commitment, people understanding of its purpose
Lack of time, time spent doing it, getting people together
Determining the level of detail
Lack of creativity
Agreeing on occurances and determinations, getting consensus
Team work, getting team involved, training of team, pre-occupation, keep team focused on the process
Added value of FMEA
RPN ranking
Covering all error modes
Severity ranking
Documentation requirements
Consistency in assessements
Cut-off point for low probability failure modes
No problems
Understanding applicability
Lack of mgt support
Accurate function definition
Need to understand design
Confusion on terminology

5.a. Are you doing FMEA in a team?

Yes	No
40	10

5.b. On average with how many team members ?

Team members	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	more
	3	7	12	7	3	1	-	-	-	4

6. What is the average time spend on a single FMEA session?

Number of hours	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	More
	9	7	1	4	1	2	1		6

7. What kind of FMEA are your doing? (multiple use possible)

8.a Are you using a FMEA-software tool?

Yes	No
11	40

8.b Are you pleased with this software tool?

Yes	No
10	1

8.c What is the main reason for using this tool? To be completed later on

9. Industrial sector/activity

Update Jan. 26, 2000