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Risk Management
A PFMEA Workshop Taught at Your Plant

Why hold a PFMEA Workshop?

To better understand how to use the tools for identifying potential risks and failures throughout all the manufacturing process steps. To help meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations. Provide a sound strategy for continuous improvement within the Quality Management System. Properly implemented, the PFMEA becomes a comprehensive part of the quality system linking process control driven by data, documentation of procedures, problem solving with the focus on continuous improvement.

To increase the impact on quality education, Product Action has designed a workshop to teach teams about PFMEA. The program is a two-day workshop taught at your facility using your PFMEA as examples of real issues instead of fabricating examples. You will benefit from the education in the context of your manufacturing world.

What is Unique about the Product Action PFMEA Workshop?

A Product Action PFMEA Workshop

• Specific to YOUR PFMEA Issues. Identifies concepts specific to your PFMEA and your systems.

• Local. Conducted in your plant,
  eliminating student travel costs
  and keeping you in-the-loop.

• Focus on Your Customer Risk Features. By identifying Pass Through Product and Customer Owned Features as risk characteristics to be controlled.

• Focused on Your Supply Chain. Information on how to satisfy your specific customer and your supply chain's tier 2 or 3 suppliers.

• Confidential. Conducted with your employees only, so you can discuss your internal and confidential situations.

• Practical. Includes the development of an action plan specific to your company.

• Closed - Loop. Exercises and report outs designed to develop action items from workshop.

What Will We Learn in a PFMEA Workshop?

Product Action's PFMEA workshop covers eight elements proven effective in understanding and developing a comprehensive Risk Management System.

Mechanics of a PFMEA. You will learn how to develop the PFMEA from the first stage of process mapping, potential failures, effects of those failures, controls, ranking the risks and planning the improvements through RPN Reduction planning.

1. Development Tools. We will supply you with the tools and knowledge to use these tools to develop and sustain your Risk Management System.

2. Creating a PFMEA. You will learn how to differentiate between failure modes, potential effects, potential causes through a construction from the FMEA exercise.

3. RPN Reduction . You will learn how to use PFMEA's to understand your risks, and to focus your efforts on reducing risks. You will also learn to use Pareto Charts and other analytical tools to analyze past quality failures.

4. Problem Solving Techniques. You will learn the various methods of problem solving in applying recommended actions for continuous improvements and RPN reduction.

5. Layered Audits. You will learn how to review and document your processes at different levels in your organization, including the effective involvement of senior management.

6. Error Proofing Verification. You will learn how to verify that your error-proofing processes and measures are being implemented consistently and correctly.

7. Action Planning. You will learn to evaluate your current PFMEA and develop a gap analysis defining those gap items as action plans. Each action item will have an owner to facilitate the completion and verification or effectiveness.

Who should participate?

The more key people in your organization who attend, the more coordinated your plan of attack will be. That's one of the biggest drivers behind teaching the workshop at your site. You can include up to 15 people in the workshop:

•  Quality Managers

•  Quality Engineers

•  Production Managers

•  Production Supervisors

•  Production Assistants

•  Tool Makers

•  Team Leaders or Job Set Up

Who teaches PFMEA?

Our trainers have from 5 to 25 years of experience in quality, including containment, root cause analysis, ISO, QS 9000, APQP, PPAP, FMEA, PFMEA, DFMEA, control plans, error proofing, and lean manufacturing.

How will you benefit?

Our workshops are designed to deliver four distinct benefits:

• Lower Costs. You and your customer(s) will both avoid future sorting and containments.

• Higher Quality. Your products and those of your customer(s) will have better quality in the eyes of the customer.

• Greater Efficiency. Better quality leads to streamlined processes, which are easier to manage.

• Stronger Supply Chain Relationships. Fewer quality incidents will improve your relationship with your customer(s), and your desirability as a supplier.

How do you sign up?

PFMEA is a 2-day workshop conducted by two trainers at your site for up to 15 participants.

Call our Customer Service Hotline to Enroll Today!
866.579.SORT