The purpose of this research is to present the application of failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) to an automotive industry especially focuses on small part that produced by PT. HIM that called Identification Plate (ID Plate). ID Plate is an important item in abroad production that has function to give information for customer about the engine number, chasis number, and other information which is important. FMEA has been used as a decision making tool to prioritize the failure modes by reducing failure rate called as risk priority number (RPN) especially focuses on FMEA design and process type. Both design and process will be develop until take the recommendation action and recalculate became RPN value. The research results indicated the action that lead to decrease RPN value and decrease failures mode occur by comparing observation result and
RPN value before and after implementing. The real observation also have been gained as a result of implemention to continue in recalculating run values. The contribution of the researchers are original and valuable.