RPN or Action Priority (AP): what is the difference?
For years the Risk Priority Number (RPN) was the standard in FMEAs. Since the 2019 AIAG-VDA Handbook, Action Priority (AP) is used as well. What is the difference, and which one do you choose?
Practical articles on FMEA, Control Plans and quality management in manufacturing, for engineers who want to put them into practice straight away.
For years the Risk Priority Number (RPN) was the standard in FMEAs. Since the 2019 AIAG-VDA Handbook, Action Priority (AP) is used as well. What is the difference, and which one do you choose?
The Control Plan describes how you monitor the quality of your product during production. What it contains, which phases there are and how it links to the pFMEA.
Many risks are the same for a process, whatever product you make. With reference and general FMEAs you capture that knowledge once and keep all your FMEAs up to date.
A process FMEA (pFMEA) maps the risks in your production process before anything goes wrong. What it is, how to build it and where it often goes wrong.
Excel is familiar and inexpensive, but for FMEAs it has its limits. The five pitfalls we come across most often, and what you can do about them.
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