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Specify the initial or revised prevention and detection actions in the net view

You can specify the initial state and revision state prevention and detection actions for failure representations, failure causes, and failure effects. While specifying the prevention and detection actions, you can add the actions from templates.

Procedure

  1. Open an FMEA.

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

  3. Click the Failure Analysis tab and select a failure cause or failure effect.You can create prevention and detection actions for a failure cause. You can create preventive action and detecyion action if your administartor has enabled the editing of these.

  4. To add the action group, do one of the following:

In the net view, click Add > Initial Action Group or Revision Action Group. OR

Right-click the tile and choose Initial Action Group or Revision Action Group.

The Initial State or Revision State action group is created in the tile.

  1. Select the tile, and click Add, and select Prevention Action from template, Prevention Action, Detection Action from template, or Detection Action.

  2. In the Add Quality Action panel, specify a name.

  3. (Optional) Specify a description, a due date, owning project, and responsible user.

  4. Click Add to create the quality action.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.fmea/xid2246868 · retrieved 2026-07-11