Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition)

No. This course teaches one core tool properly: FMEA to the AIAG-VDA 1st Edition. It is the tool an automotive quality interview goes deepest into, and the control plan is built from it. APQP, PPAP, MSA, SPC and the control plan are named where FMEA hands over to them, so you know the connection. They are not taught in these modules.

No. A spreadsheet, or even A4 paper, is enough for the structure tree, the rating sheet and the action list. Nothing needs Minitab, a licensed FMEA package or a statistics background.

Enough shop-floor familiarity to describe one real operation: what the station does, what can go wrong and who checks it. Production, maintenance and controls engineers already have that. No prior quality role is assumed.

No, and it is not preparation marketed as one. AIAG, IATF and ASQ run their own paid examinations and issue their own credentials. This is free EDWartens training on the published AIAG-VDA method. It is useful preparation if you later sit one of those exams, but it is never described as equivalent to them.

Yes. Every module, the practice tasks and the assessments cost nothing. You create an account so your progress is saved and the assessments can be marked.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you have finished every module and passed the final assessment at 60 percent, with a verification code anyone can check. It is not a vendor credential and is never described as one.

The creator named in the Credits block at the foot of this page, on their own YouTube channel. EDWartens did not make the videos and the creator is not affiliated with EDWartens. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the module notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.

It is the vocabulary that interview runs on. Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers in Chakan, Oragadam, Manesar and Sanand ask candidates to walk through a failure chain. They also ask them to explain Action Priority and say what a prevention control changes. The practice tasks build that answer from your own line, not from a textbook example.

The Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition) course has 8 modules. It opens with "The seven-step method, and what changed in 2019", goes through "Choosing the FMEA and scoping it before the form opens", "Failure analysis, and the two kinds of control", "Risk analysis: severity, occurrence, detection and Action Priority" and "Supplemental FMEA-MSR, and why FMEAs go dead in real plants" and ends with "Final assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition) course: Scope a PFMEA with the five T's and set a boundary you can defend to a customer; Build the three-level structure tree and write every function as verb, noun and requirement; Place failure effect, mode and cause at the right level so the argument about which is which stops. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition) course, software: None required. A spreadsheet is enough for the structure tree, the rating sheet and the action list. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition) is rated intermediate. Intermediate. Suits diploma and degree engineers in production, quality, maintenance or controls at an automotive supplier, or applying to one. No statistics or software background needed. It is written for quality, production and process engineers, and takes about 6.2 hours at your own pace.

Skills from the Automotive Core Tools: FMEA (AIAG-VDA 1st Edition) course (for example: scope a PFMEA with the five T's and set a boundary you can defend to a customer) are used in roles such as quality engineer, process improvement analyst, quality auditor and operations manager, and in quality engineer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.