Development of a risk assessment tool for manufacturing processes

Abstract

Risk assessment is an important management tool that is required by different management standards to support manufacturing companies in the identification of improvement actions to prevent the occurrence of undesirable events. This paper defines the specifications of a dynamic and collaborative risk assessment system for manufacturing processes. This tool allows overcoming the usual limitations of the risk assessment process in companies, namely: the departmental risk analysis, which increases the time of execution and hinders the identification of the road map that leads to the occurrence of a certain undesirable event; and the lack of updating and subjectivity of the evaluation that lead to decision making based on unreliable data. The overcoming of these limitations is made possible by the connection between records of undesirable events and the risks assessment process and by collaboration between departments or areas, ensured by the proposed system.