Product Risk ReduXion® Workshop

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The Product Risk ReduXion Workshop does not lend itself to a public class format due to the hands-on project work conducted around your proprietary processes. This workshop can be conducted at your facility in a two or three day format. Contact us for more information.

Product Risk ReduXion is a proactive approach used to identify and prevent problems in early product development as well as throughout the lifecycle of the product. This course is designed for technical personnel focused on reducing the risk of quality and reliability problems in the product design and development phase. Strong candidates include: product engineers, test engineers, design engineers and quality professionals.
The workshop includes a combination of class lecture and hands-on coaching for the student's own products. Students will learn to create a:

  • Function model to understand the linkage between the product’s critical functions and the features and properties which drive them,
  • FEMCA® to prioritize the causes and failure modes which represent the greatest risk, and
  • Linkage matrix to track the progress of verifying high-risk cause effect relationships and their respective measurement systems.

The output of the workshop is a prioritized list of activities and tests to verify that the product will function as required across the full range of product tolerances and customer environments.

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to enable participants to quickly and efficiently:

  • Risk reduce a new or current product.
  • Assess the risk of proposed design changes.
  • Construct a function model, FEMCA and linkage matrix, in order to develop a prioritized list of tests.

Benefits:

Participants can use the skills and knowledge gained in this course to:

  • Document a thorough understanding of how a system or component is intended to achieve high-risk functions.
  • Identify potentially critical component specifications or design features that should be included in subsequent design of experiments.
  • Detect areas of risk due to lack of understanding or controls.
  • Highlight opportunities to improve the robustness of a design.
  • Identify additional measurement systems, which will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of tests.

Prerequisite:

Problem Solving for Engineering Class

Some weeks prior to the workshop, a Shainin manager will work with the client managers to develop the Scope Trees™, which focus the team’s efforts on the high-risk products and functions to be risk reduced.

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