Reliability HotWire is a monthly eMagazine by ReliaSoft providing information and tips on how to best improve your reliability practices and get the most out of ReliaSoft’s tools for reliability and life data analysis. This article describes how to use risk ranking logic tools provided in Xfmea to better use the RPN values.
As the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) methodology is continuously adopted within an ever growing range of diverse organisations and industries, the related theory, standards and practices have evolved with this growth. One of the more common changes that have recently been observed within many modern FMEA standards is the migration away from the traditional Risk Priority Number (RPN) scoring mechanism used within FMEAs as a way to measure relative risk. As companies hone in on specific risk mitigation strategies, improved methods to identify risk become more important and highlight the shortcomings of the RPN and Severity times Occurrence (SxO) approaches.
For full article, view: Reliability Hotwire – Issue 192 February 2017