Lessons Learned (LeLe) in the context of FMEA

develop solutions for specific problems and make them available for future applications. They are a central success factor for the future viability of companies.

1. Challenge / Task (Why)

Day-to-day business is often dominated by quick problem-solving (firefighting). This poses the risk that improvements for future or parallel applications with similar issues are not systematically developed and implemented.

2. Objective of this article

The article shows organizational and methodological approaches to realizing sustainable processes.

3. What and How

The starting impulse for LeLe processes are the 8 Disciplines () or identified improvement potentials in day-to-day business. Particularly relevant are the disciplines D2, D4, D5, and D6.

Fig. 1: Lessons Learned Process: Starting Impulse LeLe (Source: Dietz Consultants GmbH)

The results of LeLe are authorized instructions for action within a company. It is necessary to define organizational units and responsibilities that are responsible for the LeLe process. LeLe only work through active sponsorships as well as authorization and budget authority. Otherwise, short-term goals dominate, which in the worst case can block sustainable LeLe activities. In this context, it must be ensured that LeLe transfers to other projects or product groups work.

Fig. 2: Lessons Learned Process: Starting Impulse LeLe (Source: Dietz Consultants GmbH)

A Centre of Competence (CoC) is proposed, which is responsible, among other things, for the implementation or rejection of specific LeLe contents. The core point is the competence to authorize LeLe.

Fig. 3: Lessons Learned Process: Centre of Competence (Source: Dietz Consultants GmbH)

FMEA Templates

In the context of , it is necessary to update templates based on LeLe. This ensures that LeLe contents are available for future FMEAs. This can, for example, concern:

Types of failures
Consequences of failures
Prevention controls with adjusted O values
Detection controls with adjusted D values

Fig. 4: Lessons Learned Process: FMEA Templates (Source: Dietz Consultants GmbH)

4. Result

Fig. 5: Lessons Learned Process (Source: Dietz Consultants GmbH)

Through LeLe, regulations and guidelines gain the ability to adapt. This is an important aspect of shaping future viability. On the meta-level, this concerns, for example, the constitutions of states that are adaptable. In contrast, religious rules that cannot be adapted are doomed to eventually fall out of time.