In this episode...
Sofeast's CEO Renaud Anjoran and Adrian from the team discuss product failure analysis. Hopefully, you never need to do one, but if you are hit with quality, reliability, or safety problems with your product during development or, more likely, in the field, it may be necessary to help you decide what to do. This is especially important if problems are severe enough to warrant a recall.
Renaud explains what a failure analysis is, when it may be required, and the FA methodology you can follow step-by-step with required actions per step.
Show Sections00:00 - Greetings
00:45 - Today's topic: Product failure analysis.
01:18 - The 'firefighting' or 'scattershot' approach to problem-solving by many factories that doesn't work well.
What kinds of problems warrant performing a failure analysis?
Failure analysis may be required in these 2 scenarios:
06:27 - Failure analysis during new product development
09:41 - Failure analysis after products have been shipped
19:02 - What failure analysis methodology could you follow?
0: Who will work on this analysis and what are the timelines and project context?
- Gather information
- Document any information about the failure
- First analysis
- Deeper analysis
- Containment, if needed
- Corrective action plan
- Corrective action implementation & follow-up
35:45 - Wrap-up.
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