scope:

This standard establishes uniform requirements and criteria for a performance-based Failure Review Board (FRB). The performance-based aspect of this standard requires that the organizationʼs FRB capability be rated according to predetermined criteria for process capability and data maturity. Although it is a common industry practice for the FRB to be chaired by the Project Reliability Engineering Lead, this standard does not mandate any particular organizational structure for implementing the FRB.

Purpose

The primary purpose of the FRB is to review failure trends, significant failures, and corrective action status, and to assure that appropriate follow-up actions or corrective actions are taken in a timely manner and properly implemented, verified, and documented. The baseline FRB is a group of representatives from appropriate project organizations with the level of responsibility and authority to assure that root causes are identified and corrective actions are effected in a timely manner for all significant failures. Although good engineering practice suggests that most product development projects should include a formal FRB, the basic FRB functions may devolve to a single individual on small projects.