Sofeast’s CEO Renaud Anjoran and Adrian from the team discuss product failure analysis. This is an action you should consider taking if you suddenly experience quality, reliability, or safety problems with your product during development or, more commonly, once it’s in consumers’ hands in the field.
The analysis will help you pinpoint the problem, find its cause, and decide on the next steps to contain the issue and fix the problem. This is especially important if problems are severe enough to warrant a recall.
Your takeaway is a step-by-step explanation of the failure analysis methodology and the activities per step, so you can conduct your own if need be!
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Listen: How To Do A Product Failure Analysis?
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Episode sections
- 00:00 – 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?
- 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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- Investigating the Causes of Product Failure and Improving Design
- Why Product Safety, Quality, and Reliability Are Tightly Linked
- Product Reliability Testing | 7 FAQs
- 8D Problem Solving Process
- Corrective action plan + template
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