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Notes from the bench.
DFMEA, product risk, and what we've measured while building RiskForge, including what didn't work.
A general AI will write you half an FMEA. It won't tell you which half.
On complex products, the output from a general-purpose model doesn't fail loudly. It thins out, and passes every check on the way.
Quiet failures: the risks your DFMEA found but your customers paid for.
The drip, the squeak, the sloppy gears. They score under the action line, never show up in warranty, and slowly teach customers your brand is cheap.
Your DFMEA review is defending the design, not probing it.
Engineers understate risk in products they designed. Economists call it the endowment effect, and the usual fix starts too late.
You'd never trust an unvalidated gauge. Why trust an unaudited DFMEA?
We validate gauges, machines and lines before we believe them. The process that decides what gets tested usually gets signed off on faith.