About FMEA in Teamcenter

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a methodology to identify and optimize the risk involved at the design or the manufacturing stage. You can use Teamcenter to predict different failure modes for a product design or a process at the initial stage itself so that appropriate actions can be taken for preventing them. This avoids defects prior to production, improves functional safety, and reduces warranty claims and costs.

There are two types of FMEA – Design FMEA (D-FMEA) and Process FMEA (P-FMEA). The three main phases of FMEA are identifying what can go wrong, analyzing the chances of a failure mode and its consequences, and taking actions to mitigate the cause and reduce its risk priority value.

Teamcenter helps you to perform FMEA using the following phases:

• Planning and preparation

• Structure analysis

• Function analysis

• Failure analysis

• Risk analysis

• Optimization analysis

• Results documentation using formsheets

Example

Consider the air intake system of a car engine. One of the components, the air filter is prone to wear and tear. If the air filter tears, unfiltered air can enter the engine. This potential failure of the air filter can affect the performance of the car engine or cause it to fail. You can use FMEA to analyze the function of each component in the air intake assembly. You can identify and add potential failures, such as the breakdown of the air filter, and assess the causes and effects of this failure. After the analysis, you can recommend prevention and detection actions to minimize the risks.

Where do I go from here?

Administrator	To know which features are required to install FMEA, see install FMEA.
Administrator	To configure FMEA guideline objects, you can configure the action priority or customize risk assessment scales. To customize the FMEA formsheet, see About changing the default style and structure of the formsheet.
Business User
How can I analyze failure modes for a product or a process design in Teamcenter?	To analyze different failure modes for a product or a process design at the initial stage itself so that appropriate actions can be taken to prevent them, you can perform a structure analysis, function analysis, failure analysis, risk analysis, and optimization analysis.
Is it necessary to create catalogs for users? Who creates these?	The FMEA master data is created as a hierarchy of items by a designated user. These help the FMEA engineer to search for and locate items while creating function specifications and failure specifications.
What are the steps involved in performing FMEA in Teamcenter?	To learn about how to perform the risk assessment for a product or a process design in Teamcenter, see FMEA workflow process.
Can I create variants of an existing FMEA structure?	After you create an FMEA structure, you can use it as a reference and create a new variant with a few modifications. To learn about creating FMEA variants, see Create variants of a master FMEA. You can also compare and align FMEA structures if required.
After performing the FMEA, how can I track other quality-related tasks and the identified issues?	To know more about how to create, execute, and track the recommended prevention or detection actions, and other quality-related tasks, see the information in Quality Actions. To investigate a potential problem that must be addressed, you can capture it as an issue. For more information on how to do this, see Quality Issues. To know about how to generate a control plan from an existing FMEA, see the information in Control Plans. Note A separate license is required for Quality Actions, Quality Issues, and Control Plans respectively.