Take the 25-point FMEA Maturity & Hidden-Risk Assessment. Discover whether your FMEA process is a living failure-prevention system—or a document that is mainly updated for milestones and audits.
Get My FMEA Maturity ScoreThe harder question is whether your organisation can identify important failure modes before the customer, production line or field discovers them.
This diagnostic examines ownership, lessons learned, hidden assumptions, traceability, measurement-system risk, weak signals and validation.
Time: approximately 10 minutes
Maximum score: 50
FMEAs that are created, approved and archived but do not continuously learn from change and field evidence.
Failures and lessons learned that remain trapped in plants, projects, people, 8Ds, CAPAs or service reports.
Anchoring to previous ratings, availability bias, normalcy assumptions and overconfidence in familiar designs.
Controls treated as reliable without challenging calibration, sampling, uncertainty, false negatives or thresholds.
First, tell us where to send your result. Then score only what your organisation can demonstrate with current evidence.
A score alone is not proof of FMEA effectiveness. The strongest next test is to take one significant failure from the last 12 months and compare it with the FMEA that existed before the failure.
Bring one existing DFMEA/PFMEA and one significant recent failure. Examine whether the failure was already visible, overlooked, underestimated—or absent from the FMEA.
No software implementation is required for the diagnostic review.