Design or Process FMEA?

Similar principles and steps are followed for both design and process FMEAs.

Design-FMEAs

The primary objective of a Design-FMEA is to uncover potential failures associated with the product that could cause:
Design-FMEAs should be used throughout the design process—from preliminary design until the product goes into production.

Process-FMEAs

Process-FMEAs uncover potential failures that can:
Ideally, Process-FMEAs should be conducted prior to start-up of a new process, but they can be conducted on existing processes as well.