

The final assignment of the course was to watch a video and reflect on the journey and lessons learned from the U.S. Recently, I completed the intensive 10-week “Principles of Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA): Building Capacity for Delivering Results” online course by Harvard University. Perhaps most importantly, despite enormous political pressure, NASA’s team was given the authority and legitimacy to experiment. They never assumed solutions: each challenge was unknown and contextually dependent.

Those who sent people to the surface of the Moon embraced the fact that space travel was complex, unknown, and involved a variety of agents. NASA’s engineers and technical experts never focused on one solution - they knew there was never going to be one right answer. What does space travel have to do with international development?Ĭonsider how NASA used and adapted every experiment, iteration, failure, and lesson from each project from Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. She is passionate about systems thinking and participatory approaches to international development. International Journal of Food Science & Technology Wiley Sara Mizuta Seavey, M.A., is a Senior Program Officer at FHI360 for the Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project, where she works with USAID’s Digital Development Team to conceive, design, and test how real-time data systems can enable a more adaptive and participatory approach to development. Therefore, the incorporation of FMEA and cause and effect analysis within the ISO22000 system of a ready to eat vegetables processing industry is considered imperative. It is noteworthy that the application of Ishikawa (cause and effect or tree diagram) led to converging results thus corroborating the validity of conclusions derived from risk assessment and FMEA. Following the application of corrective actions, a second calculation of RPN values was carried out leading to considerably lower values (below the upper acceptable limit of 130). Receiving, storage and distribution, packaging and cooling were the processes identified as the ones with the highest RPN (225, 225, 180 and 144 respectively) and corrective actions were undertaken. The main emphasis was put on the quantification of risk assessment by determining the risk priority number (RPN) per identified processing hazard.

critical control points have been identified and implemented in the cause and effect diagram (also known as Ishikawa, tree diagram and fishbone diagram). A tentative approach of FMEA application to the ready to eat vegetables industry was attempted in conjunction with cause and effect diagrams. Summary Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) model has been applied for the risk assessment of ready to eat vegetables manufacturing. Application of failure mode and effect analysis and cause and effect analysis on processing of ready to eat vegetables – part II Application of failure mode and effect analysis and cause and effect analysis on processing of.
