AIAG VDA 7-Step FMEA The new 7-step FMEA was introduced in 2019 as a collaboration between AIAG and VDA. This alignment brings together many aspects of risk reduction for products and processes. APIS Informationstechnologien GmbH has been developing FMEA software since 1988. Since our first product was released in 1992, we have focused on a […]
APIS IQ-Software Version 7.0 – 0040 is now available to download. There are many new features and bug fixes that come with this service pack, but here are the highlights: New system filter available for Action Priority (AP) (V7-2511) Newly available is the parameterizable system filter “Action Priority (AP)”, which filters actions according to their AP […]
APIS IQ-Software Version 7.0 — 0030 is now available. There are many new features and bug fixes that come with this service pack, but here are the highlights: New selection dialog when working with multiple Personal Desktops (V7-463) This feature applies when working with multiple windows open. When double-clicking a hot-click icon with the Alt […]
The Global Actions feature was introduced with Version 6.0 of the IQ Software…yet, in my travels training many engineers across the globe, it seems many remain unaware of the efficiency gains it offers. Take a fresh look at this little powerhouse of functionality. The ‘Action’ objects in the IQ software are the root elements of […]
As I perused my blog entries the other day, I noticed that I’d been writing primarily about FMEA fundamentals. This isn’t a bad thing per-se, but it does exclude a whole realm of other topics that are of interest to our APIS readership. So I’m decidedly switching gears to a more of a “how to” […]
Understanding Customer Needs In order to really understand what to deliver from your FMEA analysis, you need a deep understanding of what your “customers” need from it. Along these lines, we can take note of the recent passing of Dr. Akao, the founding father of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and its true impact on our […]
According to Newton’s first law of motion, sometimes referred to as the law of inertia, an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an external force. It’s not too much of a stretch to apply […]
Have you spent hours debating how to properly rate the failures in your Design FMEAs only to realize that the calculated Risk Priority Numbers (RPN) are suggesting you address issues that you know aren’t the ones you should be working on? I thought so… One of the most fundamentally important aspects of the FMEA is […]
What’s your strategy for getting through a maze? What if, when you chose a path, you could know ahead of time that it wasn’t a dead end and that you’d get your cheese? What if you could know, at every decision point, that each move was the right move? Is that cheating? Well, maybe, if […]
About 12 years ago, while earning my 6Sigma Master Black Belt certification, I was in the midst of training hundreds of Green & Black Belt students how to apply the continuous improvement methodology at their place of work. Their belt certification required that they engage in training marathons and persevere through the completion of approved […]
