3. Plan the study

It is rare for an FMECA study to be carried out in a single working session (except in the case of minor modifications, when only a very small part of the process needs to be analyzed).

By way of example, we set up a product and functionality discovery session. During this phase, the emphasis is on the product's key features. This session generally takes 30 to 45 minutes.

This is followed by the actual study phases. We schedule two research and analysis sessions, a quotation session and finally the last session on the actions to be implemented. These are detailed below:

• Session 1, devoted to the search for failure modes, lasts 2 hours;

• Session 2, devoted to cause-and-effect analysis, also lasts 2 hours;

• Session 3, devoted...