Quality and design engineers at automotive suppliers

What part or system are you analyzing?

Free starter checklist for a design FMEA and control plan in AIAG and VDA style: functions, failure modes, controls and actions, for supplier engineers.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door
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ePlan fills in

  • OEM customer-specific rules
  • Federal safety standards for the part

How it works

DFMEA and control plan starter checklist, from one answer

  1. Name the part, the customer and the control plan phase.
  2. ePlan lays out the DFMEA rows and control plan columns to fill and lists the OEM's extra rules.
  3. Read the checklist free. Installing equipment at a customer's job site? Start a site-specific safety plan.

What you get

DFMEA and control plan starter checklist and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Site-specific safety plan with activity hazard analyses door.

The first draft

DFMEA and control plan starter checklist (free)

  1. Scope, team and timing
  2. Structure: system, subsystem, component
  3. Functions and requirements
  4. Failure modes, effects and causes
  5. Prevention and detection controls
  6. Actions, owners and dates

Modeled on: AIAG & VDA FMEA Handbook and AIAG Control Plan (CP-1), used with your own licensed copies

Next · 2

Site-specific safety plan

  1. Hazard analysis for each activity
  2. Competent persons and inspections
  3. Emergency steps
  4. Training

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

3 FMEA types

are covered by the AIAG & VDA FMEA Handbook: Design FMEA, Process FMEA and Supplemental FMEA for Monitoring and System Response
Source: AIAG, AIAG & VDA FMEA Handbook

Ready for the paperwork?

Draft a site-specific safety plan with a hazard analysis (AHA) for each task, fall protection and emergency steps for your GC or a Corps job. Free to read.

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Questions

DFMEA and Control Plan Template: what people ask

What is the AIAG & VDA FMEA Handbook?

It is the automotive industry's reference manual for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, meant to help suppliers develop Design FMEA, Process FMEA and Supplemental FMEA for Monitoring and System Response.

Source: aiag.org

Is the control plan still in the APQP manual?

No. In AIAG's APQP 3rd edition, control plan content was removed; it is now a standalone document published separately.

Source: aiag.org

What's new in AIAG's Control Plan manual?

The CP-1 manual gives detailed guidance on developing control plans, clarifies requirements, explains links to the APQP process and adds a Safe Launch requirement to the control plan phases.

Source: aiag.org