Software FMEA
Ajit Ashok Shenvi · 2011
Product quality is the biggest influencer that determines the bottom-line in a commodity business like consumer electronics. And in a domain like medical industry, the quality/reliability is even more paramount as it directly deals with the safety of human lives. A technique like FMEA (Failure modes and effects analysis) is very useful in such an endeavor to identify potential failure modes and design weaknesses, assess the risk of failures and provide for preventive/corrective actions. This has been proven in the hardware industry for years and a standard practice in those disciplines.