Specify the current prevention and detection actions to mitigate the failure modes

To perform a risk analysis, you associate the current prevention and detection actions to a failure cause. You can use template actions to create these prevention and detection actions. You specify the occurrence and detection values for the prevention and detection actions, respectively. These values can be from 1 to 10. Based on the values you specify and the design FMEA (D-FMEA) or process FMEA (P-FMEA) guideline objects,the initial priority value is determined automatically, such as low, medium, or high.

Procedure

1. Open an FMEA.

2. Select a failure representation associated with a function within the FMEA structure.

3. Click the Risk Analysis and Optimization tab and select a failure cause from the Failure Cause Actions table.You can create prevention and detection actions for a failure cause if your administrator has enabled editing of these actions.

4. To add prevention actions linked to a failure cause and specify an occurrence value, do the following:

In the Failure Root Cause Actions table, under the failure cause, click Add and select Prevention Action or Prevention Action From Template.

In the Add Quality Action panel, specify the required parameters.If you select Prevention Action from Template, in the Add Quality Action from Template panel, select the required template from the list of existing templates and click Select.

Click Add to create the quality action.

The Initial State group is created automatically, if it does not already exist, and the quality action is added to it.

To specify an occurrence value, in the Failure Root Cause Actions table, select the action group, or expand the action group to select an action, double-click the required cell in the Occurrence column, and select a value from the list.

5. To add detection actions linked to a failure cause and specify a detection value, do the following:

In the Failure Root Cause Actions table, click Add

Detection Action or Detection Action From Template.

In the Add Quality Action panel, specify the required parameters.If you select Detection Action from Template, in the Add Quality Action from Template panel, select the required template from the list of existing templates and click Select.

Click Add.

The Initial State group is created automatically, if it does not already exist, and the action is added to it.

To specify detection value, in the Failure Root Cause Actions table, select the action group, or expand the action group to select an action, double-click the required cell in the Detection column, and select a value from the list.

Note

Your administrator can modify the preference value so that you can edit the occurrence and detection values for the actions in an action group.

After performing the risk analysis, you can optimize the risks by prioritizing the recommended actions.