It's for school and the text makes a feeble attempt at describing what it is and how to create one.

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Whade' "Darkwing" Duck
Fieroless (11/18/12)

quote Originally posted by whadeduck: It's for school and the text makes a feeble attempt at describing what it is and how to create one.

I have to do formalized risk assessments all the time.

The FDA requires it with every new medical device submission I send.

If you're looking for help I suggest a Google search for "FDA Guidance Risk Analysis"

It's actually pretty straightforward cause and effect + severity scoring.

Trying to boil it down to it's most basic:

"If X happens then Y failure may result, and that failure on a scale from 0 - 10 of severity goes from minor inconvenience to catastrophic."

You can combine all of the risk factors that you have identified and average the severity scoring to come up with the overall risk assessment numeric.

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Google PFMEA "Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis".

or check PPAP components from AIAG.

Meanwhile I'm sitting here thinking. "I don't remember scorecards for this."

quote Originally posted by Khw: Meanwhile I'm sitting here thinking. "I don't remember scorecards for this." Click to show

I'm the King of that sh!t!

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: I'm the King of that sh!t!

Imperialist dog dawg!

quote Originally posted by williegoat: Imperialist dog dawg!

Shouldn't that be Monarchist? He did say "King" of it and not Emperor.

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quote Originally posted by Khw: Shouldn't that be Monarchist? He did say "King" of it and not Emperor.

Very true.
"I'm the Emperor of that sh!t" just don't have the same kinda' "Hey, I'm your buddy...NOW YOU BEST GIVE!" kinda' god-frenemy feel to it!
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!...

Julius Caesar~ Act Three, scene one ~ William Shakespeare

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Oooh, me sooo ho-nee.

quote Originally posted by GTGeff: Google PFMEA "Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis".

I second the use to the FMEA tool, depending on that failures you need to troubleshot. Basically a process and create an entry for every step. From there you idnetify the frequency that that step could fail, the severity of the failure, and the difficulty/ease of detection of the failure. When i use the FMEA tool the servery, frequency and detectabiltiy are assigned a score of 1 to 10--10 being the worst case. From there you take the scores for each element multiple them together and come out with a RPM --risk prioritization number. The RPN's for every step are then compared aginst each other..the highest RPN gets the most attention in terms of remediation.

Other good tools for root cause anaylsis, simlair to failure to risk mitigation are fishbone analysis and the 5 whys.