Maintaining Food Safety with FMEA
The abbreviation FMEA is short for Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. It's a tool that helps you look very carefully and systematically at exactly how and why things can go wrong, so you can do your best to prevent that from happening.
The 4 Simple Steps for Creating a Monte Carlo Simulation with Engage or Workspace
Learn the 4 simple steps to creating a Monte Carlo Simulation with Minitab Engage or Workspace.
My Favorite Visual Tool: Process Mapping
My Favorite Quality Tool: Process Mapping
Discovering Four Types of Fishbone Diagrams
Discovering Four Types of Fishbone Diagrams
Let Me Count the Ways: Brainstorming Why I Love Dogs with a Fishbone Diagram
This Valentine's Day, I'm using a Fishbone Diagram in Minitab Workspace to brainstorm all the reasons why I love dogs. Read to see if I missed any!
For Want of an FMEA, the Empire Fell
Rebels in Star Wars, Episode IV managed to destroy the Death Star. That loss could have been prevented with a FMEA during the design phase. Discover more!
FMEA: A Good Way to Save Yourself Some Grief
The FMEA is a great tool to use early on in a quality improvement project, because it collects and organize data about a process that can help you identify and scope a process improvement project. It's also good for identifying and screening potential vital X's as you complete a project. And at the end of a project, you can use the FMEA to document status, reference reaction plans, and note any further improvements the process may require over time.