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Overview and 
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This presentation describes a procedure of combining the FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and the power of DOE (Design of Experiments). FMEA and DOE have been used independently for years to investigate and solve many types of problems in many different fields. The FMEA procedure generates many ideas leading to definitions of failure modes, causes and effects for any given system. Design of Experiments methods can take the FMEA output and determine, through planned experimentation, which problems are the most important and what the solution might be. All the required input for the DOE is contained in the FMEA. Once the FMEA is started the DOE planning can also be started. The presentation shows how integrating the two tools can capture the problems normally missed by applying just FMEA.

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Failure Mode Effects Analysis, FMEA, Design of Experiments, DOE