FMEA-AHP Multi-Criteria Method for NPD Proyect Launch Analysis

Abstract

Nowadays, the New Product Development (NPD) process demands shortest development cycle-time to introduce the products into the global markets as well as offer better products for the consumers, different tools and methods are used to assure product launched on time without failures. In this document will be introduced a novel Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) used in combination, Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Dimensional Analysis (DA), changing the way to get the RPN over the FMEA ranking process, getting an accurate FMEA-RPN-DA, to help Engineers and project manager to handle their project resources available in a wisely manner. This paper contains an experimental case to validate the proposed new method.