How to use the Failure modes review template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Failure modes review template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Failure modes review”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Score severity, likelihood and detection 1–10 and multiply. Act on the highest scores first, and on any severity of 9 or 10 whatever the total.”
Fill in each part
- Table Columns: Step · How it could fail · Effect · S · L · D · Action
- Scores 1 is best, 10 is worst.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Failure modes review board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Plan, do, check, act
Run one improvement as a cycle: plan the change, try it small, check the result against the prediction, then adopt, adapt or drop it.
Defect Pareto
Rank defect types by how often they happen, see which few cause most of the scrap, and pick where to start fixing.
Preventive maintenance plan
List each machine’s routine maintenance tasks with how often, who does them and when they are next due, so breakdowns get rarer.
Cause and effect map
Put one problem in the middle and look for causes in six directions, so the team explores widely before settling on a fix.
Service level objectives
Agree reliability targets from the user’s side: the journeys that matter, how to measure them, the target and what happens when you miss.
Value stream map
Follow one request through every step to delivery, with work time and wait time at each, to see where time really goes.