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For more information on Failure Experience data, contact the GIDEP Help Desk and ask for the Failure Experience Manager.
Failure Experience Data (FED) reports are used to notify GIDEP participants about nonconforming parts, components, chemicals, processes, materials, specifications, test instrumentation, safety, and hazardous situations including health hazards. This data also includes failure analysis and problem information submitted by laboratories in support of problem descriptions, and actions taken/planned to correct the nonconformances. Lessons Learned reports shares useful accident prevention information. FED consists of objective data in five types of reports
Recent Failure Experience listing
ALERTs (AL) - Report problems with products/processes, which do not meet specifications. The reported nonconformances have a high probability of causing failure in the equipment/system in which the problems occur.
SAFE-ALERTs (SA) - Notify the GIDEP community of problems (nonconformances), which affect the safety of people or equipment and meet the same basic criteria as ALERTs.
Problem Advisories (PA) - Report nonconformances, which, unlike ALERTs, have a low probability of causing a functional failure. They do however, report problems with products/processes, which do not meet specifications. They can also be used as preliminary ALERTs where there is a suspected problem, which is not completely defined due to lack of data.
Agency Action Notices (AN) - Issued by government agencies to report problems with products or processes. Unlike ALERTs, SAFE-ALERTs, and Problem Advisories; Agency Action Notices do not include problem solutions or manufacturers' corrective actions, but they do document the occurrence of a problem. In some cases, notices may have a limited distribution.
Lessons Learned (LL) - Issued by participating government agencies and industry activities. A Lesson Learned document describes a good work practice or innovative approach that is captured and shared to promote repeat application. A Lesson Learned may also be an adverse work practice or experience that is captured and shared to avoid recurrence.
An important service provided by GIDEP is the Urgent Data Request (UDR), which queries the entire GIDEP community for failure experience or other kinds of data, and for sources of supply. Responses are provided directly to the representative originating the request for information.
Manufacturers (even non-participants) and GIDEP participants can submit notices. In fact, GIDEP welcome and encourages the sumission of FED data by non-participating manufacturers for inclusion in the database.
GIDEP participants submit FED data when they experience problems or nonconformances of general interest to the GIDEP community. Agency Action Notices are primarily issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commision (NRC) and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
Currently, FED data contains approximately 10,500 documents (excluding Urgent Data Requests).
Graph 1: Number of FED documents by document type
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Q: How do I submit FED data?
Q: How is the Failure Experience data stored?
Q: How have GIDEP customers benefited from utilizing the FED?
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Q: How do I submit FED data?
A: Using appropriate forms, manufacturers and GIDEP participants can submit Failure Experience Data to the GIDEP Operations Center electronically, or via fax, U.S. mail, or FEDEX. A manufacturer does not have to be a member of GIDEP to submit data to the program. In fact, GIDEP welcomes and encourages the submission of Failure Experience Data by nonparticipating companies (as long as they are reports on themselves) by using the ALERT, SAFE-ALERT, Problem Advisory, and Agency Action Notice forms. There are no forms for submitting Lessons Learned reports. Please contact the Operations Center for blank forms, which are available in electronic format.
Q: How is the Failure Experience data stored?
A: Failure Experience Data is maintained in an on-line relational database.
The GIDEP database has full text and images of ALERTs, SAFE-ALERTs, Problem Advisories, Agency Action Notices, and Lessons Learned up to the present. Documents can be searched for using part number, keyword, date range, or other related information.
Q: How have GIDEP customers benefited from utilizing the FED?
A: A few examples are as follows:
John Fluke Manufacturing Company: reported a cost avoidance of $2,000,000 achieved from the KC-S-95-01 Safe-Alert in which all services and NASA avoided potential serious injury or loss of life and damage to support equipment
Warner-Robins Air Force Base: realized a cost avoidance of $1,045,500 due to the KE-A-95-01 Alert by eliminating defective electrical connectors from stock and assemblies used on the C-17, F-15, and other Air Force supplied assemblies
Space Shuttle: Agency Action Notices AAN-U-95-78, AAN-U-95-53, and AAN-U-95-73 allowed EG&G, Florida to perform maintenance actions to major switches to power distribution used in Space Shuttle Maintenance to avoid possible launch delay and potential failures to support equipment for an estimated cost avoidance of $500,000
Naval Sea Systems Command: avoided serious personal injury or damage via the MN-S-95-01 Safe-Alert in which an estimated seven million SCUBA compressed air cylinders prone to rupture were purged from government stock
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