Edit the severity values

The default value of the severity for all failure causes and failure effects that you create is set to 10. Depending on the intensity of the severity, you can edit the default severity value. You can edit the severity of failure representation, failure cause, or failure effect in the Overview tab or the failure analysis net view and table view.

The following procedure shows how to edit the severity value in the net view.

Procedure

1. Open the FMEA object and navigate to the failure representation.

2. Click the Failure Analysis tab.

3. Select the failure representation, failure cause, or failure effect with the severity value you want to modify.

4. Click Edit Severity .

You can also right-click the tile and choose Edit Severity, or choose More Commands > Edit > Edit Severity.

5. In Edit Severity, select a value from the list and click Save.

6. Click Save Edits to save your changes.

Note

The cascading severity behavior is applicable when you add or remove a failure cause or effect.

For relatively smaller failure data the severity value is updated synchronously. If the data is large, the operation is asynchronous, and you receive an alert when it is completed. The AP or RPN values are not updated immediately for an asynchronous operation.