Question: An operator at a subassembly process in your factory takes 14 different items, assembles them together and then closes them in a housing. Once closed,

An operator at a subassembly process in your
An operator at a subassembly process in your factory takes 14 different items, assembles them together and then closes them in a housing. Once closed, you cannot see the assembly inside the housing. An FMEA on the process resulted in a high RPN (risk priority number) at that process step because an incomplete assembly could be contained in the housing and shipped out to customers. Identify two specific things you could do to reduce the RPN as well as the metric that you would reduce (Sev or Occ or Det)

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