Reusing FMEA objects

You can copy system elements, functions, failures, or actions and paste them as new objects in the same FMEA structure, or in another FMEA structure.

When you paste the FMEA object as a new object, a copy of the source FMEA object is created in the destination where you paste it. You can modify the properties of the new object as required. The newly created objects are independent of the source object. Any changes to the properties, relations, or interfaces of the source object are not propagated to the properties, relations, or interfaces of the new object, even if they are within the boundary or hierarchy of the source object. The IDs of the copied and pasted objects are different.

If you are copy-pasting large FMEA objects, you can select the Run in Background option to specify if you want to run the operation asynchronously. You will receive an alert when the copy-paste operation is complete.

During copy-paste, the initial state or revision state quality action groups, and the actions within the groups are copy-pasted independently. During the paste operation, the occurrence and detection values, or RPN values of the source quality action are not carried over, irrespective of whether the automatic carry over of occurrence and detection values from the initial state actions to the revision state actions is enabled by your administrator. The occurrence and detection values of the pasted actions are reset to 10, which is the default value. You can update these values after the paste operation is complete. This ensures that the risk estimation of the FMEA is not affected by the occurrence and detection values, or the RPN values of the source object.