ICTT-FMECA-AMP Service

Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) is an established approach to documenting and analyzing the potential failure modes for systems products, operational systems, and processes, along with their potential effects (impacts) and criticalities. The FMECA approach (also called FMEA) is widely used across many industries, applications, and system technologies, to analyze and improve upon proposed designs and risk mitigation strategies.
For all its benefits, FMECA also presents some challenges. Perhaps your organization has encountered some of these in its own use of FMECA:

Sometimes those working to carry out a FMECA data generation process feel more “arbitrary” than systematic, whereas high confidence is needed in the coverage this process provides for system risks. Sometimes systems generate failure modes that were not predicted or considered in the FMECA process. Did we find everything we should have? How do we know?
Sometimes team members working to carry out FMECA sessions report they don’t look forward to them, citing the investment of large blocks of time and effort, or a sometimes “numbing” effort.

None of this is a matter of disrespect of FMECA as a well-established process fulfilling a vital need. To address these challenges, ICTT System Sciences offers the Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis-Analysis Models & Patterns (FMECA-AMP) Service. This service produces the traditional FMECA failures-modes-effects-criticality output tables, but uses advanced techniques developed for complex systems applications. These include Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Pattern-Based Systems Engineering (PBSE), and Intelligence-Based Systems Engineering (IBSE).

Typical results of using these techniques include:

A more clearly systematic approach to coverage / discovery of the “logical failures” and “impact effects” of a system, using Models.
More rapid generation of fault analyses from Patterns.
More systematic approaches to mitigation strategies, using EI Patterns.
Ability to perform FEMCA analyses more independent of “from scratch” consultant analyses, using enterprise-owned Patterns.