AIAG-VDA Process FMEA and Control Plans for Practitioners and Facilitators

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Course Duration: 2 Days - 8 Hours/day

Join Omnex for this important industry approach integrating AIAG and VDA FMEAs. Omnex FMEA experts, many of whom are writers of the FMEA standards, have worked extensively with both AIAG and VDA FMEA 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 PFMEA including managing requirements, integrating PPMs and Warranty history and creating a product and process architecture for managing FMEAs. Get the greatest savings by employing Process Reuse and also linking PPM and Warranty history with AIAG-VDA PFMEA. Most of all, get hands-on real world experience working with AIAG-VDA PFMEA, Process Flow (Structure Analysis) and Control Plans at our Open Enrollment or on your product onsite.

This two-day seminar addresses all of the elements of the Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) and Control Planning process, and defines it as a process within your organization. This class was designed as a “how to” for practitioners and facilitators. The training is a hands on approach to understanding and using the seven steps of the AIAG-VDA PFMEA process. This course is intended to be a dynamic, hands-on offering with approximately half the class time spent in workshops.

This seminar offers an insight to the linkages between various aspects of the PFMEA process. Specifically, the development and linkage of process flows/structure analysis and control plans are addressed. It shows how Process Flows/structure analysis, Control Plans and shop floor documentation can be used to achieve process standardization and improvement.

The approaches discussed and employed in this course are consistent with the intent and guidelines in the AIAG-VDA FMEA Handbook 1st Edition (2019), APQP 3rd Edition (2024) Control Plan 1st Edition (2024) and IATF 16949:2016.

Learning Objectives

  • Provide a hands-on approach to the PFMEA process and its relationship to program deliverables and status reporting to provide the competencies needed to introduce new processes smoothly
  • Apply the AIAG-VDA Seven Step Approach to developing Process Flow, PFMEA and Control Plans
  • Apply the major changes, improvements, and benefits of AIAG-VDA PFMEA
  • Study the changes and differences between AIAG-VDA FMEA and AIAG FMEA 4th Edition; how to make the results of both approaches the same
  • Link SFMEA, DFMEA, Process Flow, PFMEA, and Control Plans
  • Hands on “use of AIAG-VDA FMEA software” and understand role of software in AIAG-VDA FMEA
  • Use of AIAG-VDA PFMEA and Control Plan Checklists to evaluate PFMEAs completed and to develop consistency between PFMEAs and Control Plans in the organization
  • Learn how to link PFMEA to failure and warranty history and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
  • Develop AIAG-VDA PFMEA Transition and Implementation Plan

Course Outline

· Chapter 1: Introduction to Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)

o Phases of the Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) Development Model

o Concurrent Engineering

o PFMEA Purpose and Objectives, link to DFMEA

· Chapter 2: PFMEA Planning and Preparation

o The Omnex Seven-Step Approach

o Step 1: Project Planning and Preparation / The 5Ts and Importance of Teams

o PFMEA Structure and Form

· Chapter 3: PFMEA Structure Analysis and Function Analysis

o Step 2: Structure Analysis

Ø Process Flow Diagram and Special Characteristics

Ø Breakout Exercise 1: Create a Process Flow Diagram

Ø Structure Trees

Ø Breakout Exercise 2: Structure Tree

o Step 3: Function Analysis

Ø Process Functions and Requirements

Ø Breakout Exercise 3: Function Analysis

· Chapter 4: PFMEA Failure Analysis and Risk Analysis

o Step 4: Failure Analysis

Ø Potential Process Failure Modes

Ø Potential Effects of Failure

Ø Potential Causes of Failure

Ø Breakout Exercise 4: Failure Modes

Ø Failure Net Analysis and the Failure Chain

Ø Breakout Exercise 5: Failure Net

o Step 5: Risk Analysis and Process Controls

Ø Detection and Prevention Controls

Ø Breakout Exercise 6: Process Controls

Ø Evaluations (Severity, Occurrence, Detection, and Action Plans)

Ø Breakout Exercise 7: Risk Evaluation

· Chapter 5: PFMEA Optimization and Results Documentation

o Step 6: Optimization

Ø Recommended Actions and Continual Improvement

o Step 7: Results Documentation

· Chapter 6: Process Control Plan

o Families of Control Plans

o Control Plan Inputs

o Control Plan Characteristics

o Control Plan Methods

o Reaction Plans

o Breakout Exercise 8: Create a Control Plan

· [OPTIONAL] Certification Exam for AIAG-VDA PFMEA

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 PFMEA using your product. It will be best if you have a 4th Edition PFMEA for comparison purposes. This training can include your component suppliers.

Who Should Attend

Those who have direct responsibility for introducing 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 process development and improvement.

Those directly responsible for PFMEA creation or facilitation should attend this course to upgrade their skills to the AIAG VDA PFMEA 1st Edition.

Course Materials

Each participant will receive a seminar manual, 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.

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.

Upcoming Training

AIAG-VDA Process FMEA and Control Plans for Practitioners and Facilitators Program is available in multiple locations globally, including the USA, Canada, Mexico, India, Europe, Thailand, Singapore, Middle East and China.