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There is on the other hand something to be said for Robert A. Heinlein's statement in Starship Troopers (1959) to the effect that, if you equip somebody with an overly-complicated weapon system (or tool), "…somebody a lot more simply equipped—say with a stone ax—will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a vernier.” A stone ax that will do the job, and which people will actually use, is more effective than a vernier that goes unused (or is not used effectively) because of its relative complexity.

The Army's DD2977, Deliberate Risk Assessment, is very similar in concept to PFMEA, and compatible with PFMEA. It is also much simpler; the original instructions fit on a single page. It is in the public domain as a publication of the U.S. Government, and it was designed by military professionals who deal with risk for a living. DD2977 therefore gives organizations a simple and user-friendly alternative to PFMEA that is likely to deliver usable results for its processes.

A complete process FMEA can have 20 or more columns, in addition to the header that provides information about the process and associated responsibilities. The Army's public domain DD2977, Deliberate Risk Assessment worksheet, has six columns plus a field for a supervision plan and a recommended course of action. Even if we add some additional columns to take advantage of the newest FMEA approach (per the AIAG/VDA 2019 manual), it is still far simpler. The instructions for DD2977 as written, meanwhile, fit on a single page as opposed to requiring an entire manual.

DD2977 is nonetheless synergistic with traditional PFMEA. Both processes examine the structure of a process and the functions of its process steps, along with potential failure modes and their effects. PFMEA assesses risks according to Severity, Occurrence, and Detection, and summarizes the result with a risk priority number (RPN) or the superior action priority rating from the new AIAG/VDA manual. Both processes also call for identification of controls that prevent or detect a failure, and cite the superiority of engineering or machine-based controls over administrative or behavioral controls.

DD2977 also uses a Severity rating system that can be easily cross-referenced with the one from FMEA, but combines Occurrence and Detection into a probability or "expected frequency" rating. DD2977 users therefore need to assess only how frequently a failure will happen (Occurrence) and escape (Detection) to cause trouble. DD2977's risk assessment matrix also overcomes a well-known problem with the risk priority number; the latter is the product of three ordinal numbers and does not always reflect the true relative risk of a failure mode [1]. Both approaches, DD2977 and FMEA, then call for the implementation or improvement of controls that eliminate or reduce the risks in question.