5- very severe, e.g., customer in trouble or extremely irritated due to the adverse
effect derived from the service.
(O) – Occurrence (cause) – frequency at which a certain cause occurs and generates a failure
mode.
Range: 1- Unlikely to occur
5 – Evident failure based on existing data
(D) – Detection: System capacity to detect the causes before the failure occurs, or capacity to
detect the failure before the customer.
Range: 1 – Confidence to either find or prevent the failure before the customer perceives it
5 – The current controls will certainly not detect the failure.
(R) - Recuperation: Process capacity to correct the service before the customer perceives the
failure, or as soon as the customer perceives it, in such a way that he/she agrees with the
corrective action.
Range: 1 – There is a corrective process in place that was implemented before the customer
perceives the failure.
5 –There is no service corrective process
There is no item (R) in the original FMEA process, but we decided to add it since it is
possible that, when delivering the service, the own process corrects the failure as it occurs in
the presence of the customer, minimizing its effect. There are cases in which the prompt
corrective action pleases the customer and makes him/her more confident in relation to the
service delivered.