Currently suppliers providing products to both german and N.A. 'OEMs are reqiured to access their products failure mode and failure effects differently - based on differences beetwen the Severity, Occurancy and Detection rating tables in VDA and AIAG FMEA Manuals.

This causing confusion and complexity for the suppliers.

A common set of FMEA will be enable suppliers to have a single FMEA business process to produce robust, accurate and complate FMEA's that would meet the needs and expectations of any of their customers

Expected main changes:

6 step process - New, harmonised ranking tables - New formular - changes in action priority

Source, further info: http://blog.aiag.org/new-aiag-vda-fmea-handbook-draft-available-for-review-and-comments