Hello all,
Here is the FMEA presentation from JUMPSTART. The presentation in live format should be up on FUN Network’s Youtube channel in the coming days - please watch for it.
There is a more information on our Engineering Site, including a live spreadsheet and more will be published in the near future.
Let us know if you have any other questions here or you can email our helpline at: [email protected] .
Though we didn’t make it up to JUMPSTART, we did have a bunch of people (students and mentors) at your FMEA presentation at MRI. We were extremely impressed with how well thought-out and integrated this process is for CIS, and we are in the process of evaluating FMEA for use in our team. The three students at MRI did an amazing job with the presentation! Thanks for making these resources available to the FRC community.
Thank you for publishing this resource! FMEAs are awesome - I’ve use them pretty extensively at work and think they have a lot of application to FRC. One of the largest barriers to entry for a process like this is knowing where to start though. I know when I tackle something new there are a bunch of failure modes I don’t think of. At work we have very elaborate templates that document all sorts of stuff that probably doesn’t even apply to our parts half the time which makes this process much simpler. Any chance you’d be willing to share more of your FMEA so other teams can benefit from your lessons learned? The examples in the slides are a bit limited and someone new to the concept might not get it. New teams seeing things like electrical or drivetrain best practices from an experienced team can have a significant impact.
New teams will benefit from implementing any some sort of lessons learned process - and I know as a veteran team we could certainly benefit from better documentation. Can you share a little bit about how you facilitate this / ensure it gets done? Is this shared in a google doc or on some server? Who is ultimately responsible? Do you find this to be more cumbersome than something like a maintenance log?
Hello Mike,
We are working on a format that works well for all teams. However, as you are already aware, FMEA’s work best when the data originates from the source being analyzed. We have been struggling with a ‘fits all’ document for some time. We are hoping to have this document ready to distribute in short order. Once FUN publishes the video presentation, please watch it and then let us know what we can do better to help other teams.
I understand how powerful this tool is as I watched as my team was completely reborn once we adopted it. It is my full belief that this will take off like wildfire in FIRST once more teams understand the usefulness of FMEA and 5S.
We have the entire spreadsheet visible on the FMEA page within our Enginnering webpage on our site (linked below) in order to provide more examples. We also keep this spreadsheet live and are using it at every stage of development and at tournaments. We have our pit checklist on the same page we use to record failures identified in the pit as a part of pFMEA and that again loops back into the overall process in the post tournament and dFMEA reviews we hold as a team afterwards. So it’s really a minor but continuous part of our actions. That was our first step in implementing FMEA - making it easy to use and a part of our culture. The team has seen such immediate benefits they are all very excited to share the idea with other interested teams.
Let us know if you have questions-we are glad to help!
This is good
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis is a bit of a dense subject to approach in FRC, but there are some really useful concepts in here - like tracking failures and using “5 whys” to look for root causes. Now I have to think about how we can implement some of this. Thanks!
The FMEA team of 4607 is having a meeting tonight to go over better ways to get this resource out to the public. We thank you for all you patience as work out the best way to make this available. Until this meeting has happened the FMEA embedded on our website is the best way to get an idea of how your team can use this fantastic resource. More information is soon to come!
The FMEA team of 4607 C.I.S. worked last night to bring you multiple usable templates for the FMEA platform.
Our current version of our FMEA will have copy privileges by the end of the day. Our original intentions were to help other teams create their own however we realized that we want all teams to be able to adopt it. We came to this realization after some feedback (some more colorful than others;) ).
4607 C.I.S. has built up its team through open source so it would not be fair to keep this resource to ourselves.
In our meeting we realized teams are not going to want our full version so we’re going to release a Pit Checklist as well as a FMEA template that teams can make their own.
Seriously, thank you teams that called us to the carpet.
Final note, we will have a live FMEA form so that all teams can contribute to a FRC wide FMEA database. We hope this live before SpecCheck on week 5 of the build season.
Here is the website updated with our full version, a pit checklist, and the template to build your own FMEA (if you don’t want to use our format).
Thanks!