Early Cycle Failure Proactive Prevention FMEA Approach
Today, product quality is one of the most critical uptake or purchasing factor for consideration by customers. Product recalls due to serious quality and reliability concerns can ruin brand reputation or put companies out of business. Less serious problems may result in customer dissatisfaction, loss of sales, high cost of poor quality and a delay in the launch of a new product.
Marketplace pressures to continuously deliver high quality products in shorten period reduces development time and increases risks of potential failures. Furthermore, new product failure uncertainties remains present throughout Product Development Process (PDP) – from the specification of requirements in design to build variation in manufacturing and aftermarket operation. Therefore, companies across the automotive sectors have to give priority in uncertainty characterisation and propagation in the development of zero-defect and failure tolerant designs and robust manufacturing