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AIAG-VDA DFMEA (SFMEA and DFMEA) for Practitioners and Facilitators
AIAG-VDA DFMEA Training for Practioners and Facilitators
Course Duration: 2 Days - 8 Hours/day
Omnex is not a VDA or VDA-QMC licensed training provider.
Join Omnex for this important industry approach integrating AIAG and VDA FMEAs. Omnex FMEA experts many who are writers of the FMEA standards have worked extensively with both AIAG and VDA FMEAs formats. They will show you how to manage your existing AIAG or VDA FMEAs and the steps to transition to the AIAG-VDA FMEA approach.
Omnex will share best in class practices to get the most of the AIAG-VDA DFMEA including managing requirements, working with the supply chain, integrating PPMs and also creating a product and process architecture for managing FMEAs. Get the greatest savings by employing Design Reuse and also linking PPM history with AIAG-VDA FMEA. Most of all, get hands on real world experience working with AIAG-VDA DFMEA at our Open Enrollment or on your product onsite.
This 2 day seminar addresses all of the elements of the Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and Design Verification Planning process, and defines it as a process within your organization. This class was designed as a “how to” for practitioners and facilitators. This training offers an optional certification exam in addition to an optional one or two days of workshop to develop your own product using AIAG-VDA DFMEA (onsite training only).
The training is a hands on approach to understanding and using the seven steps of the AIAG-VDA FMEA process and to understand how it is managed as a process. This course is intended to be a dynamic, hands-on offering with approximately half the class time spent in workshops.
The approaches discussed and employed in this course are consistent with the intent and guidelines in the AIAG-VDA FMEA Handbook (1st edition, 2019) issued by AIAG and VDA, APQP Second Edition, and IATF 16949:2016.
Learning Objectives
- Provide a hands-on approach to the DFMEA process and its relationship to program deliverables and status reporting to provide the competencies needed to introduce new products and processes smoothly
- Apply the AIAG-VDA Seven Step Approach to developing SFMEA and DFMEA
- Explain the use of an inter-relationship matrix to identify relationships between components and higher level systems
- Detail best in class methods of AIAG-VDA Design FMEA implementations
- Explain how to use the DFMEA with other Safety Analysis tools and how to incorporate Multipoint Faults and Safety / Diagnostic mechanisms.
- Explain how to prioritize continual improvements.
- Identify the need for special characteristics in product design.
- Create a Block Diagram, P Diagram, and Interface Diagram
- Link DFMEA with DVPR and use Prevention Checklists
- Link SFMEA, DFMEA, Process Flow, PFMEA, and Control Plans
- Learn how to link DFMEA to failure and warranty history and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ
- Hands on “use of AIAG-VDA FMEA software” and understand role of software in AIAG-VDA FMEA
- Implementation of the AIAG-VDA and other Supply Chain Standards
- Study the changes and differences between AIAG VDA FMEA and AIAG FMEA 4th Edition. How to make the results of both approaches the same?
- Apply the major changes, improvements, and benefits of AIAG-VDA DFMEA
- Use of AIAG-VDA DFMEA Checklist to evaluate DFMEAs completed and to provide consistency when DFMEA is applied.
Course Outline
- Chapter 1: Introduction to APQP and DFMEA
- Identify the phases of the APQP development model
- Pinpoint the phase(s) in which key product development deliverables are created
- Apply the concept of concurrent engineering to product development
- Define FMEA
- List the DFMEA objectives and describe its link to PFMEA
- Chapter 2: DFMEA Planning and Preparation
- Identify the structure and 7 steps in conducting the DFMEA
- Identify and define the 5Ts and describe the importance of teams
- Identify information to enter on the form header
- Chapter 3: DFMEA Structure Analysis and Function Analysis
- Create an effective scope for a DFMEA through a Boundary Diagram
- Breakout Exercise 1: Boundary Diagram and Scope Statement
- Describe the use of Robust Design Tools
- Use the Structure Tree for Structure Analysis
- Breakout Exercise 2: Structure Analysis
- Develop the bidirectional traceability for the flow-downs for Function and Requirement Analysis
- Breakout Exercise 3: Function Analysis and Requirements Flow-down
- Chapter 4: DFMEA Failure Analysis and Risk Analysis
- Determine failure modes, mechanisms, causes and effects
- Determine failure effects and causes
- Breakout Exercise 4: Failure Modes, Effects and Cause Analysis
- Develop prevention and detection design controls
- Identify the role of special characteristics in design
- Quantify and evaluate relative risk – Indices and Action Priority
- Breakout Exercise 5: Design Controls, Special Characteristics and Risk Analysis
- Chapter 5: DFMEA Optimization and Results Documentation
- Define the use of Action Plans in risk mitigation
- Create and implement results documentation
- Breakout Exercise 6: Optimization and Results Documentation
- Chapter 6: Test Planning and Reporting
- Itemize tests necessary to assure design criteria and targets can and will be met
- Describe the use of test documentation and the reporting of progress made toward targets
- Breakout Exercise 7: Design Verification Plan and Report
- FMEA Summary and Effectively using the AIAG-VDA DFMEA Approach
- Certification Exam for AIAG-VDA DFMEA – Optional
- Note 1: Breakouts can be conducted using AIAG-VDA FMEA Software
- Note 2: Omnex can offer training in IQFMEA, Plato or AQuA Pro for onsite training
- Note 3: You can add two additional days for Facilitator Training (onsite training only)
- Note 4: You can add one or two days to develop a DFMEA using your product. It will be best if you have a 4th Edition DFMEA for comparison purposes. This training can include your component suppliers.
Who Should Attend
Those who have direct responsibility for introducing new products and/or a new manufacturing processes and systems would benefit from this seminar. This includes: program/product managers, quality managers, design engineers, manufacturing engineers, APQP team members and others who have direct responsibility for new product development and improvement.
Those directly responsible for DFMEA creation or facilitation should attend this course to upgrade their skills to the AIAG VDA DFMEA 1st Edition.
Course Materials
Each participant will receive a seminar manual and a workbook including all team breakout exercises.
Note: Omnex does not provide copies of standard(s) during training courses, but clients are encouraged to have their own copy.
Pre-Requisite
No prior knowledge is necessary. However, a mix of students with knowledge of product design & development and/or manufacturing and basic Quality Assurance concepts is preferred.
Background in AIAG FMEA 4th edition or VDA FMEA is good, but not required.
MICHAEL DOWN
315 E. Eisenhower Parkway Suite 214 Ann Arbor, MI 48108Tel: (734) 761-4940
Fax: (734) 761-4966
Michael Down is a Senior Consultant with extensive Engineering, Quality and Reliability experience. Whether it may be in Product Development, Manufacturing, or Quality Management Systems, his greatest desires are to improve clients understanding and improving system to provide optimum performance, quality and durability of the product or process design. He also well understands the need for reducing costs while continually improving quality & compliance/conformance.
Mr. Down has extensive experience working in the automotive industry from manufacturing and assembly to vehicle design development and software/hardware Reliability, DMFEA and PFMEAs. He spent over 32 years working for GM in the quality engineering, statistical problem solving and continuous improvement and teaching. Have taught thousands of employees over the years in relation to FMEA, Probability and Statistics, SPC, System Thinking, Deming, Reliability, and statistical problem solving. Used SPC principles to manufacturing processes at GM, increasing line efficiency and reducing cost, saving GM millions of dollars. Applied DOE to advanced design and process development, identifying critical variables and optimizing process performance. Statistically solved process and product issues in relation to casting, metal fabrication, electronics, injection molding and SMC plastics. Also, statistically solved issues in relation to stamping, heat treating, paint, and in relation to issues with oxygen sensors.
In addition, he was instrumental in the development of the GM Powertrain PFMEA guidelines. Managed quality engineers in manufacturing and assembling. Was a part of the leadership group that directed the Statistical Network within GM (assisted in facilitating Deming seminars and assisted in the training of his courses and seminar) Mike also represented GM at both SAE and AIAG, providing extensive guidance and input to the development of Global Automotive Standards reference documents on Quality and Core tools, including PFMEA, APQP/CP, PPAP, SPC, MSA, and DRBFM reference documents. Mike has been involved with FMEA standards and including developing and teaching FMEAs since the 1990s. Today, Mike is actively working on the SAE J1739 committee updating the FMEA standard to reflect AIAG-VDA FMEA.
Specialties: Training and support the development of DFMEAs and PFMEAs for FMEA 4th edition and AIAG-VDA FMEA. Lead for PQMS training development, IQFMEA tech expert, taught and developed DFA and Robust engineering courses. Deming expert, facilitation and application, DOE trainer and implementer, Represent GM at SAE and at AIAG. Expert in the area of AIAG-VDA FMEA, SPC, MSA, FMEA 4th edition, and DRBFM
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, MTU, Bachelor Industrial Management in Electronic Engineering Technology from Baker College, and a Master Degree in Applied Statistics from Oakland University
GREG GRUSKA
315 E. Eisenhower Parkway Suite 214 Ann Arbor, MI 48108Tel: (734) 761-4940
Fax: (734) 761-4966
Greg Gruska is the Omnex Champion for APQP, PPAP, FMEA, ISO 26262, Lean Six Sigma and a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). His strength in ISO 26262 is a strong understanding and experience in systems engineering and reliability/safety analysis in both hardware and software development. Greg managed the Quality Engineering Activity at Chevrolet. This group provided benchmarking, quality engineering and statistical support to all divisional and corporate activities and their suppliers. Besides the application of statistics within the design, manufacturing, and support environments, this group was active in the development of new technologies and training in these areas. Greg additional served as a Divisional and Corporate consultant in Statistical Engineering and Management. He has traveled extensively in assisting engineering, financial, and support staffs and manufacturing plants in the investigation and solution of problems affecting quality, new product development, product failures and customer satisfaction.
Greg is also an active/writing member of the MSA, SPC, FMEA, and EFMEA Manual subcommittees of the American Automotive industry�s Supplier Quality Requirements Task Force which is part of the international task force governing TS-16949. Greg is an adjunct professor at Madonna University. He has advanced degrees in mathematics and engineering from the University of Detroit, Michigan State University and Wayne State University. He was the Deming Memorial Lecturer at the Sheffield Hallam University for the year 2000.
Greg is a charter member of the Greater Detroit Deming Study Group and the W. E. Deming Institute. He is an ASQ certified Quality Engineer, a licensed Professional Engineer (CA - Quality) and a member of the Board of Examiners of and Judge for the Michigan Quality Leadership Award (1994-2011). Greg is on the writing committee of AIAG on FMEA, a member of the SAE Functional Safety Committee (J2980) and is considered one of the foremost authorities on risk management in the world. He has considerable hardware and software experience in Automotive applications.
MARY E. ROWZEE, ASQ FELLOW
315 E. Eisenhower Parkway Suite 214 Ann Arbor, MI 48108Tel: (734) 761-4940
Fax: (734) 761-4966
Mary Rowzee is an Omnex consultant with extensive experience and achievements in Quality Systems development, implementation and auditing to ISO 9000 series and IATF 16949 standards; Six Sigma Black Belt Problem Solving and Advance Quality Tools including: Design and Process FMEA, Design and Process Verification and Test Planning, Complex Statistical Analyses and Reliability Prediction, Modelling and Risk Reduction. Mary is a writing member of AIAG-VDA FMEA 1st edition and the Core Tools Guidelines: SPC 2nd edition, MSA 4th edition, EFMEA 1st edition, PPAP 4th edition and APQP 2nd edition.
Mary has been actively leading industry practices and application of ISO 26262 Functional Safety Standard for Electrical/ Electronic Products; Software FMEAs, ASPICE, CMMI and Quality; Supplemental Monitoring and Systems Response (MSR) FMEAs; Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF) ISO 21448 and use of Safety Engineering tools (Reliability Block Diagrams, Hazard and Risk Analyses, Addressing ASIL rated risks) in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). She also served as GM Global representative on AIAG-VDA and SAE Quality Standards development teams.
Mary has worked for Daimler Chrysler Fiat, TRW and recently GM working as a Senior Engineer ADAS Electrical sub-systems quality for Autonomous Vehicles. She was the Quality and Reliability Resource on ADAS Electrical Sub-systems teams, used in Autonomous Vehicles. For GM she worked with internal and first tier supplier teams to develop Safety Analyses and Design FMEAs on Electrical, Mechanical and Software products in support of ISO 26262 requirements. Mary also assisted in the establishment and implementation of an aggressive Advanced Product Quality Process within GM and Supply Base. Additionally, at GM, she served as in-house consultant and coach to more than 5,000 product engineers in Six Sigma project development and implementation. Mary was an Operational Excellence Master for the GM Quality organization, leading and facilitating the highest impact, most financially significant corporate projects, in addition to teaching many courses on Six Sigma tools and techniques. Also at GM, Mary served as the Senior Leader for Global Design and Process FMEA. In this she revitalized the use of FMEAS within General Motors by developing and teaching all live and web based FMEA classes in North America and developing criteria and assessment processes for Global FMEA software selection.
While at Daimler Chrysler Fiat she served as the manager of Product and Process Integrity. In this position she supported interior and electrical product development (SMTs) areas in writing technical specifications, developing reliability requirements, constructing and executing designed experiments, developing FMEAs and Validation plans.
EDUCATION
Mary has Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology and Human Factors from University of Delaware, Newark, DE. She also has a Master of Science (MS), Industrial Psychology and Applied Statistics from University of Akron, Akron, OH. Mary hold numerous certifications including: Certified Reliability Engineer CRE, Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence CQM/OE, Certified Quality Engineer CQE, Certified Quality Auditor CQA, Registrar Accreditation Board Quality Auditor.