Create a failure specifications catalog

A failure specification is a workspace object for predicting potential failures. For example, in the air filter assembly, one of the failures could be the air filter not working due to wear and tear of the filter element.

You can create the system element specifications master data in Folders or in the Quality Master Data library. The Quality Engineer—while creating the FMEA structure—can search for and add them to the FMEA structure.

After creating the failure specifications, you can edit them to specify additional properties.

Create the failure specifications master data in Folders

Procedure

1. From Launcher , click Explorer.

If this option is unavailable, search for it. You can pin it from the search results for future access.

2. Choose More Commands > New > Add.

3. Type failure specification in the Type filter and select Failure Specification.

4. Specify a name (mandatory) and description (optional), and click Add.

Create the failure specifications master data in the Quality Master Data Library

The failure specification master data consists of parent and child failure specifications. To create the master data, you can create a parent failure specification and create child failure specifications under the parent. You can also drag and drop child failure specifications from one parent to another.

Procedure

1. From Launcher , click the QUALITY MASTER DATA tile.

2. Click the Failure Specifications page.

3. Choose More Commands > New > Failure Specification.

4. Specify a name (mandatory), type a description (optional), and click Add.

5. Create a child failure specification.

Select a failure specification from the catalog.

Choose More Commands > New > Child.

Specify a name (mandatory) and type a description (optional).

To create the child failure specification, click Add.

Specify additional properties of failure representations

You can edit the failure representations to specify additional information and properties. These properties can help you while performing the failure analysis.

Procedure

1. Open the failure representation for which you want to specify additional information.

2. Choose More Commands > Edit > Start Edit.

3. Add, update, or modify the following properties:

Name

Description

Sequence - Specify the sequence of the failure in the FMEA structure. The default value of the of the Sequence property of the first failure representation that you create is 10. For the subsequent siblings that you create, the value is automatically populated in increments of 10. You can edit the value of this property and modify the sequence of failure representations.

4. Choose More Commands > Edit > Save Edits.