Yes / The effective deployment of FMEAs within complex automotive applications faces a number of challenges, including the
complexity of the system being analysed, the need to develop a series of coherently linked FMEAs at different levels within
the systems hierarchy and across intrinsically interlinked engineering disciplines, and the need for coherent linkage
between critical design characteristics cascaded through the systems levels with their counterparts in manufacturing.
The approach presented in this paper to address these challenges is based on a structured Failure Mode Avoidance
(FMA) framework which promotes the development of FMEAs within an integrated Systems Engineering approach. The
effectiveness of the framework is illustrated through a case study, centred on the development of a diesel exhaust
aftertreatment system. This case study demonstrates that the structured FMA framework for function analysis supports an
effective decomposition of complex interdisciplinary systems facilitating the DFMEA deployment through a series of
containable, structured DFMEAs developed at successive system levels, with clear vertical integration of functional
requirements and critical parameters cascade.
The paper also discusses the way in which the approach supports deployment across engineering disciplines and
domains, ensuring the integrity of information flow between the design and manufacturing activities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/10646 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Henshall, Edwin, Campean, Felician, Rutter, B. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © 2014 SAE International. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
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