FMEA and Design for Six Sigma EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|2025
List each DFSS tool. - ✔✔DOE
RDO
FMEA
QFD
DFSS tool: DOE - ✔✔A method for understanding and controlling key process inputs in
order to obtain desired outputs.
DFSS tool: Robust Design Optimization - ✔✔A means of integrating DOE early in the
development process to create an optimal design that is immune to variations, quality
drifts, and other failures.
DFSS tool: FMEA - ✔✔A method for analyzing potential problems and how they affect
the organization or customer.
DFSS tool: QFD - ✔✔A method for developing a clear understanding of customers'
needs.
DFSS tool: RDO - ✔✔A method to integrate experiments early in the process.
What does DOE stand for? - ✔✔Design of Experiments
What does FMEA stand for? - ✔✔Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
What does QFD stand for? - ✔✔Quality Functional Deployment
What does RDO stand for? - ✔✔Robust Design Optimization
Match the name of each DFSS tool to the corresponding description. - ✔✔Failure
modes and effects analysis - Is used for analyzing potential failures.
Quality function deployment - Helps develop clear understanding of customers' needs.
Design of experiments - Is all about understanding the relationship between inputs and
outputs.
Robust design optimization - Helps create an optimal design that is not sensitive to
variations, quality drifts, or other failures.
Before rolling out DFSS, you should check your company against a set of prerequisites
to determine if DFSS is really needed.
, What should you take into consideration before deciding to deploy DFSS? - ✔✔Your
organization's current Sigma levels and trends.
Your organization's prioritized project schedule.
The amount of change in your business environment.
Your organization's capacity to roll out a DFSS project.
Which of these situations call for a DFSS strategy? - ✔✔An Internet service provider
continues to receive low customer satisfaction ratings for its technical support process,
despite numerous efforts to improve.
A publishing house rolled out Six Sigma five years ago but its product quality is still
unable to rise above two Sigma levels.
A new airline is creating a set of safety and operational procedures.
A travel agency is upgrading its booking software and needs to generate a new set of
processes to accommodate the software.
A cell phone company has designed a new phone to meet customer requirements and
is now creating sales and service processes to go with it.
A tire manufacturing facility is in the very early stages of layout design.
A university has implemented a range of Six Sigma projects, but after good initial gains,
the rate of improvement has dropped significantly.
What are the similarities between DFSS and Six Sigma? - ✔✔They both rely on quality
tools, data, and systematic processes.
They both result in lower costs.
They are both process and quality improvement strategies.
They are both implemented by Six Sigma teams.
They both aim to achieve a performance level of 3.4 DPMO.
The DMAIC methodology and the two DFSS approaches - DMADV and IDOV - share
many similarities. Each also has its own unique qualities.
Which characteristics apply only to DMAIC? - ✔✔Ensures the improvements hold.
Assumes the existing design is meeting customer requirements.
Aims to improve current products and processes.
What does IDOV stand for? - ✔✔Identify, Design, Optimize and Verify
What does DMADV stand for? - ✔✔Defne, Measure, Analyze, Design and Verify
What does DMAODV stand for? - ✔✔Defne, Measure, Analyze, Optimize, Design and
Verify
List each DFSS tool. - ✔✔DOE
RDO
FMEA
QFD
DFSS tool: DOE - ✔✔A method for understanding and controlling key process inputs in
order to obtain desired outputs.
DFSS tool: Robust Design Optimization - ✔✔A means of integrating DOE early in the
development process to create an optimal design that is immune to variations, quality
drifts, and other failures.
DFSS tool: FMEA - ✔✔A method for analyzing potential problems and how they affect
the organization or customer.
DFSS tool: QFD - ✔✔A method for developing a clear understanding of customers'
needs.
DFSS tool: RDO - ✔✔A method to integrate experiments early in the process.
What does DOE stand for? - ✔✔Design of Experiments
What does FMEA stand for? - ✔✔Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
What does QFD stand for? - ✔✔Quality Functional Deployment
What does RDO stand for? - ✔✔Robust Design Optimization
Match the name of each DFSS tool to the corresponding description. - ✔✔Failure
modes and effects analysis - Is used for analyzing potential failures.
Quality function deployment - Helps develop clear understanding of customers' needs.
Design of experiments - Is all about understanding the relationship between inputs and
outputs.
Robust design optimization - Helps create an optimal design that is not sensitive to
variations, quality drifts, or other failures.
Before rolling out DFSS, you should check your company against a set of prerequisites
to determine if DFSS is really needed.
, What should you take into consideration before deciding to deploy DFSS? - ✔✔Your
organization's current Sigma levels and trends.
Your organization's prioritized project schedule.
The amount of change in your business environment.
Your organization's capacity to roll out a DFSS project.
Which of these situations call for a DFSS strategy? - ✔✔An Internet service provider
continues to receive low customer satisfaction ratings for its technical support process,
despite numerous efforts to improve.
A publishing house rolled out Six Sigma five years ago but its product quality is still
unable to rise above two Sigma levels.
A new airline is creating a set of safety and operational procedures.
A travel agency is upgrading its booking software and needs to generate a new set of
processes to accommodate the software.
A cell phone company has designed a new phone to meet customer requirements and
is now creating sales and service processes to go with it.
A tire manufacturing facility is in the very early stages of layout design.
A university has implemented a range of Six Sigma projects, but after good initial gains,
the rate of improvement has dropped significantly.
What are the similarities between DFSS and Six Sigma? - ✔✔They both rely on quality
tools, data, and systematic processes.
They both result in lower costs.
They are both process and quality improvement strategies.
They are both implemented by Six Sigma teams.
They both aim to achieve a performance level of 3.4 DPMO.
The DMAIC methodology and the two DFSS approaches - DMADV and IDOV - share
many similarities. Each also has its own unique qualities.
Which characteristics apply only to DMAIC? - ✔✔Ensures the improvements hold.
Assumes the existing design is meeting customer requirements.
Aims to improve current products and processes.
What does IDOV stand for? - ✔✔Identify, Design, Optimize and Verify
What does DMADV stand for? - ✔✔Defne, Measure, Analyze, Design and Verify
What does DMAODV stand for? - ✔✔Defne, Measure, Analyze, Optimize, Design and
Verify
