FMEA Part 3 - How to mitigate project/process risks and lower your FMEA RPN Score

In this article we will discuss how to mitigate project/process risks and lower your FMEA RPN Score. Properly done, it can be an invaluable tool to help mitigate risks early on in a project or help fix an existing process.

- RPN scoring allows you to quantify the risk of a failure mode. If you can pinpoint your biggest risks early on, you can prioritize their mitigation and mitigate them before process go-live. This will benefit your program later on down the line because it ensures that all efforts are focused on the most important issues, rather than being spread across all possible issues.

- RPN scoring is also a way to measure how effective your mitigation strategies have been at reducing risk during development. You will be able to tell if a particular strategy has helped with reducing risk, or if it has not been effective at all (or if there was no need for implementing this type of strategy in the first place).