About FMEA in Teamcenter

You can use FMEA methodologies 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. A failure mode is essentially a cause-effect chain of events that you have not anticipated.

In Teamcenter, you can perform the analysis for the following:

Design FMEA (D-FMEA)

Design FMEA analysis is performed to analyze the various functions, failure modes, and their effects for a new or changed design of a product. The net views, boundary diagrams, and interface matrices help you visualize the hierarchy and detect the dependencies and interface relations between the system element, function, and failure representations in the FMEA structure.

Process FMEA (P-FMEA)

Process FMEA analysis is performed to analyze a process flow and the various stages that a product goes through in new or existing processes. Process flow charts show a graphical representation of the processes at the various design stages.

Before you create the FMEA structure, it is recommended that the Quality Master Data Engineer creates the FMEA master data in the Quality Master Data Library or in Folders.

After you create the FMEA structure, you add the various system element, function, and failure representations to it. You can create and add new system element representations to the FMEA structure by searching for the required objects in the Quality Master Data Library, or creating them as required. For more information about the various tasks that you can perform to analyze designs and processes, refer to the FMEA task flow in Teamcenter topic.

You can view the FMEA data of the system element representation such as failure effects, failure causes, and all other related actions in the Formsheet view.