Failure Analysis Workshop
Failures don’t happen by chance but are known to have patterns of occurrence. Failure analysis is a systematic procedure for identifying the root causes of a failure or other issue of concern in a system, and for correcting it in a timely manner, if required.
This workshop will introduce participants to the systematic process of failure analysis from the body of knowledge of TRIZ.
Day -1
- Introduction to Failure Analysis
- Overview of Algorithm for performing Failure Analysis
- Multi-screen Thinking or System Operator
- Different dimensions of multi-screen thinking
- How to use
- Initial Situation Description
- History of the problem
- Localizing the problem
- Amplifying the problem
Day-2
- Failure Analysis Modeling
- Building the system diagram
- Providing hypotheses – strategies for creating hypotheses
- Categorizing Hypotheses
- Validation of Hypotheses
- Creating the Failure diagram
Day-3
Innovative Problem Solving
- Kaleidoscope Model of Perspectives
- Identify key stakeholders significantly impacted by the given situation and proposed solution
- Articulate the viewpoints of each stakeholder
- Identify potential conflicts
- Systems Thinking Network
- Present cause-and-effect linkages of current situation and proposed solutions
- Identify core problems to be addressed
- Hill Model
- Abstract the given situation
- Analogy thinking to generate solution
- Tongs Model
- Identify the barriers and/or contradictions in given situation
- Contradiction
- Formulating Contradictions
- Resolving Contradictions by applying principles
- Ideality
- Envision the state of Perfection
- Evaluate current solution from Ideal Final Result (IFR)
- Expressing Functions appropriately
- Identify Useful/Harmful Functions
- Refine solution
- Resources
- Identify readily available resources to move solution towards Ideal Final Result
- Resolving Secondary Problems/ Generating Action Plans
- Apply earlier concepts in iterative manner to resolve secondary problems
- Review of concepts and closure
- Review of concepts covered during the day
