FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis — acronym)
Reviewed by Apex Insurance Brokers · Last reviewed 2026-06-22
Reviewed by Apex Insurance Brokers · Last reviewed 2026-06-22
Reviewed by Apex Insurance Brokers · Last reviewed 2026-06-22
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Reviewed by Apex Insurance Brokers · Last reviewed 2026-06-22
Category: Risk identification & assessment · Reviewed by Chrissie Anderson, Client Executive · Last reviewed
FMEA
FMEA is the standard acronym for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. Common related acronyms:
FMECA — Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis.
DFMEA — Design FMEA.
PFMEA — Process FMEA.
RPN — Risk Priority Number (Severity × Occurrence × Detection).
AP — Action Priority (replacing RPN in the 2019 AIAG-VDA harmonised standard).
AIAG-VDA harmonisation
In short: In 2019 the Automotive Industry Action Group (US) and Verband der Automobilindustrie (Germany) published a harmonised FMEA standard that replaced the multiplicative RPN with an Action Priority logic tree, designed to remove the well-documented anomalies in RPN scoring (different combinations producing the same RPN despite very different criticalities).
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