We read daily of so many road accidents, burnt cars, buses not able brake at hill roads etc. What is being done to improve the situation? With vehicle ownership increasing, there is a need to inculculate safety awareness to all involved. How can we do that?
One simple step is to educate everyone, including our authorities responsible as well, on a simple methodology, used in Space missions and now extensively applied in automotive manufacturing and other areas, what is known as FMEA. It stands for Failure Modes & Effects Analysis. It is a straight forward methodology utilizing past experience and imagination of team members who are from different areas of expertise to identify all possible modes of failures that could occur in a process and the effects of failures to the customers and subsequent processes. And brainstorming all the possible causes for the failures to occur and putting in place controls either to prevent the causes from occuring or detect the failures before damage is done. This simple methodology was developed during the late 50s in the space missions of Nasa. And now, for all automotive component manufacturers must perform an FMEA on all process and regularly review it to reduce the risk probabilities of failure occurences.
I believe if all drivers, RMIV officials are put through on FMEA and have the completed FMEA posted on lorry/bus drivers office/restrooms etc, there will be a big improvement in accidents!
Lately, we read reports of cars catching fire! Who is following up on the causes? The insurance companies? The car manufacturers? The owners? The Authorities? And what steps have been taken to eliminate cars/vehicles from burning? This is where doing an FMEA and implementing the controls arising from it will go a long way in reducing such unwanted incidents!
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