July 2012
Beginner
416 pages
9h 21m
English
Content preview from Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications
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9.2 Summary
FMEA and FMECA are very effective tools. They can be applied to a broad range of applications and industries and are effective in elucidating the vulnerabilities of a system and its subsystems. Like PHA, FMEA and FMECA are applied early in the design life of a system and are used to ensure that the system has no unidentified failure points. As with the Mars Global Surveyor, we have to determine up front what a failure is and what success is.