FMEA: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

[Admin]

This information can be useful for the intermediate and expert robot builders. This technique talks about how to solve and prevent system failures *without* doing trial and error. For example, think of landing a man on the moon


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analysis

ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/pub/hise/Failure%20Modes%20&%20Effects%20Analysi...

http://www.fmea-fmeca.com/fmea-examples.html

http://www.fmeainfocentre.com/examples/iptincfmea.xls

[JesseWelling]

Dude, don't bring my work home for me 
I like my closed loop systems at home to run themselves into walls when they fail, it's a stress reliever

[Tsukubadaisei]

Thanks for introducing this post. This is a field I hardly hear about, but very important.