About the FMEA master data

The FMEA master data is a collection of system element specifications, function specifications, and failure specifications.

Typically, the Quality Master Data Engineer or the designated user creates the system element, function, and failure specifications in the Quality Master Data Library or in any folder.

While creating the FMEA structure, you can search for specifications in the Quality Master Data Library and add them to the FMEA structure. Alternatively, you can create the required system element specifications, function specifications, or failure specifications and add them to the Quality Master Data Library.

Each time the master data is edited and saved, the system creates a new version of it. This helps in tracking all the changes made over a period of time. In addition, the master data can be deactivated so that it cannot be further used for creating the FMEA structure.

Creating the master data provides the following benefits:

• Common quality standard within a company that can be shared by different products and processes

• Detection of unknown quality dependencies because the specifications are shared between different products and processes

• Easy way to structure the data

• Enhancement of the quality data by using versioning. Users can see what has changed and update to the latest version.