Episode 11: How to Perform a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
From Process Improvement Practioners Show by Todd Justman
December 4, 2025 · 50 min · Season 1 · Episode 11
About this episode
This episode discusses the importance and execution of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in process improvement.
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the episode nobody wants to sit through but everybody needs. Today we tackle one of the heaviest (and most valuable) tools in the process-improvement toolbox: the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis — FMEA. Think of it as the colonoscopy your process never asked for but desperately needs. It’s long, occasionally uncomfortable, and you’ll see things you can’t unsee… but it just might save the patient. In this episode I walk you through: Why FMEA is worth the heroic ef...
Topics covered
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- process improvement
- business management
Keywords
- FMEA
- process improvement tools
- business analysis
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