Mr.William A. Levinson

ISO 9001 and other standards will add to clause 4.1 regarding the context of the organization a requirement for the organization to determine whether climate change is relevant to its management system. Clause 4.2 will add that relevant interested parties may ...

Failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) play s an important role in advanced quality planning (AQP) or, in the automotive industry, advanced product quality planning (APQP). It is a structured and disciplined approach for planning quality into a product design (D ...

Variation in product dimensions is why interchangeable parts sometimes don't interchange. This is why manufacturing and quality engineers perform process capability studies that quantify the ratio of the specification width to the amount of variation. Goldratt's ...

AQP and APQP include processes such as quality function deployment (QFD), which incorporates the voice of the customer into the planning process. Outputs from QFD become inputs into failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), which identifies failure modes for critical to ...

FMEA is a risk assessment and mitigation process for product designs, processes, and even supply chains. It is a systematic approach that determines (1) how something might fail to perform its intended function, (2) the severity of the consequences of the failure, (3 ...