Managing the Control Plan
Generate a Control Plan from an FMEA
You can use an existing FMEA as the source for a Control Plan. Ideally, use an FMEA that has system element representations with function representations. The function representations can contain Inspection Definitions with the Quality Characteristics. When you generate a Control Plan, the top-level system element representations are generated as operations. In these operations, the Inspection Definitions from the function representations are generated as Inspection Definitions of the operations. Even though the function representations might be at different levels in the FMEA, their Inspection Definitions are attached to the operation generated from the top-level system element representations.
Note
Even if the source FMEA's function representations are missing Inspection Definitions, the Control Plan will still generate successfully. In such cases, the system element representations will be generated as operations without any associated Inspection Definitions
Example
Consider a scenario where you want to generate a Control Plan from the following FMEA:
The following video shows how to generate a Control Plan from an FMEA.
Procedure
Open the FMEA that you want to use as the source of a Control Plan.
Choose More Commands > New > Generate Control Plan .
In the Generate Control Plan panel, type the name of the Control Plan.
In the Description box, describe the Control Plan.
From the Control Plan Type list, select the type of the Control Plan you want to create.
Select Use System Element to create Operation to generate operations from the top-level system element representations of the FMEA.
The generated Inspection Definitions are attached to the operations.
Control Plan generated from an FMEA
Control Plan generated from a system element
If you do not select this check box, the generated Inspection Definitions are attached directly to the Control Plan generated from the FMEA. If no Inspection Definitions are attached to the functions, then the generated Inspection Definitions are added to the Control Plan directly.
If you are generating a control plan from a system element, and no Inspection Definitions are attached to the functions, then the generated Inspection Definitions are added to the top-level element of the FMEA.
Click Generate.
If no Inspection Definitions are attached to the FMEA functions, then the generated Inspection Definitions are added to the Control Plan directly. A notification is displayed in the Alerts panel when the Control Plan is generated. Note The administrator must have started the Dispatcher services to generate the Control Plan.Click Alerts and click the generated Control Plan in the Target Object section to open the Control Plan.
You can also click the Control Plan tab and open the generated Control Plan from this tab. To view the source FMEA function of an Inspection Definition in the generated Control Plan, select the Inspection Definition, and click the Where Used tab. The source FMEA function is listed in the References section.
For Control Plans generated by using system elements, selecting an operation displays the original system element in the Source System Element section of the Overview tab.
Example The following Control Plan is generated from the FMEA when you choose to use system elements to generate the Control Plan: