Process Failure Modes and Prevention

Key Takeaways

• FMEA scores failure modes on Severity, Occurrence, and Detection—RPN above 100 warrants immediate action.
• Eight common failure modes account for most real estate process failures—each has a specific prevention strategy.
• Resilient process design uses poka-yoke (mistake-proofing), redundancy, and feedback loops.
• Preventing failures is dramatically cheaper than recovering from them.