The Power of Deduction: Failure Modes & Effects Analysis for Design: Second Edition

By Michael A. Anleitner

To compete in the third decade of the 21st Century, companies are expected to produce product designs that are nearly flawless. To accomplish this, teams must apply systematic methods and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is one of the most powerful ways to insure that potentially market-leading designs don't turn into one of the disasters that you can read about every day in the news. Far too often, though, Design FMEA is carried out in a way that is ineffective, boring and largely a waste of time. How can you change DFMEA from a tame kitten into a roaring lion that will provide real benefit and not just check the box on some product development checklist? How can you avoid the mind-numbing and seemingly pointless drudgery that DFMEA often seems to be? To go beyond the mundane and often trivial results that bad DFMEA work generates, DFMEA must be approached in a way that is more analytical and deductive. In the second edition of his groundbreaking 2010 book, Michael A. Anleitner has again put forth a new and more potent set of detailed instructions showing just how that can be done. In this second edition of his 2010 ground breaking book, Anleitner adds many new insights relating to DFMEA, including the application of DFMEA for complex systems, how to use DFMEA to improve software and greatly improved techniques for understanding and using the language of function. He also reveals new ideas about the proper integration of DFMEA into product development processes, which is critical to extracting value from the DFMEA process. If you are a product engineer creating and developing new designs, this book will open your eyes to the real potential of DFMEA--and you will be entertained by the many examples of product failures over the past fifty years that may well have been avoided with better analytical assessments. About the author: Michael A. Anleitner is the President of Livonia Technical Services, a consulting and training firm that specializes in helping manufacturing companies improve product development activities. He has fifty years of experience in the manufacturing world, including stints as a product engineer, process engineer, engineering and quality director, manufacturing company CEO and owner, and staff quality advisor at a large multi-national company. He holds a BA degree from Michigan Technological University in technical communications, a BS degree in engineering from Wayne State University, and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BW3HG51B
• ISBN13: 9798378964192
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"