In today's competitive market environment, the industry has realized the fact that servicing unreliable products is a very costly proposition. To a large extent, reliability is built into the product during the design and development phase. Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) is an essential ingredient of reliability engineering and is a very powerful and effective technique used for improvement in the methodology used for design, assembly, materials engineering, servicing etc., for a diverse range of products and processes. FMEA can be effectively applied in case of new developments, new technologies and components/assemblies or products which have inherent problems to anticipate & prevent problems showing up in practice during the product lifecycle by an approach using methodical thinking and validation of concepts. FMEA is an aid for continuous improvement which fits into a PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) pattern of activity. Whenever continuous Improvement and problem solving is envisaged or effected, FMEA is redone to evaluate their effects.

Learn to execute Design FMEA according to the new AIAG &VDA Handbook by achieving a deeper understanding of the explicit and subtle changes, along with the high impact benefits that will bring your organization's FMEA to the next level of robustness.

Keeping this is view, Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) is organizing an online programme on "How to become an effective FMEA Practitioner as per combined AIAG & VDA Version".

This programme will benefit practicing engineers and senior technical personnel involved in the functions of Design and Development, Process Planning, Product Engineering, Application engineering, Quality Assurance, R&D, Manufacturing, Servicing etc., and other related areas from Machine Tool, Automobile & auto ancillaries, Tool rooms, Defence and Railway establishments, General Engineering and other Capital goods manufacturing industries. In order that the participation is effective and beneficial, it is recommended that participating companies depute a multi-disciplinary team of 2 or 3 people from the above functions. Participants should have knowledge of related products and processes.

This Program will be conducted by Mr. B S Mohan.

Mr B.S Mohan, an engineer by profession, was associated with Bosch for over 27 years, as part of the quality department responsible for introduction, sustenance of Quality standards and quality tools in all Bosch plants across India. Prior to that, he was responsible for engineering and manufacturing gear pumps, process planning of elements, machine planning & procurement, New project coordination and Project management for electric power tools. In his last assignment at Bosch, he was the Quality head of the Automotive Electronics Plant at Bangalore.

He has earlier worked with Tata Motors for over 6 years and was responsible for Process planning of transmission components & assembly and Process planning of dies, jigs and fixtures.

He currently provides training on various quality aspects such as VDA 6.3, Systems audits as per IATF 16949, 8D problem solving, FMEA, SPC, MSA, Basic quality tools, Tooling management, APQP, PPAP and Project management.