Specify the potential failure modes of the FMEA structure

To perform the failure analysis of an FMEA, you add the potential failure modes of the FMEA structure and specify the failure effects and failure causes. In addition, you can also assign a severity value to the failure effects.

To perform a failure analysis:

Procedure

1. Add a failure representation to the function representation

2. Associate a failure effect and specify the severity

3. Associate a failure cause

Add a failure representation to the function representation

Procedure

1. Open an FMEA.

2. Select a function representation and choose More Commands > New

   Failure.

3. In the Create panel, in the Search tab, a list of the failure representations is displayed. You can filter the list by typing the name of the failure representation and select the failure representation. OR If the required failure representation is not available, click the New tab, and specify the name and description to create a new failure representation.

While creating a new failure representation, if you retain the Create and link its master data check box selection, the failure representation that you create specific to the FMEA is created as a specification at the highest level in the Quality Master Data library.

You can select multiple failure representations.

4. To include the failure representation, click Create.

Associate a failure effect and specify the severity

Procedure

1. Open the failure representation and click the Failure Analysis tab.

The net view of the FMEA is displayed.

2. To add a failure effect, choose More Commands > New > Failure Effect.

3. In the Add panel, specify if you want to add failure effects from within the FMEA structure, or select the Failure Library check box to search for and add failure effects from the quality master data.In the FMEA tree structure, you can view the external (local) failures of an FMEA under External Failures.

4. Do one of the following:

Click New to create a new failure effect and add it to the FMEA.

Click Search to search for an existing failure effect.

5. After you select the required failure effect from the search results, or create a new one, click Add.

If you add a failure effect specification, the corresponding representation object is also added. You can also drag a failure effect from the FMEA tree structure to the function in the net view display.

6. To specify the severity of the failure effect, do the following:

Select the failure representation from the FMEA structure and switch to the Table view.

In the Failure Effect table, in the Severity column, double-click the required cell and select a value from the list.

Associate a failure cause

Procedure

1. Open the failure representation and click the Failure Analysis tab.

2. To add a failure cause, choose More Commands > New > Failure Cause.

3. In the Add panel, specify if you want to add failure causes from within the FMEA structure, or select the Failure Library check box to search for and add a failure causes from the quality master data.

Note If the Teamcenter Quality AI Client is available, you can prompt it to Use the Teamcenter Copilot Quality for quality data suggestions.

In the FMEA tree structure, you can view the external (local) failures of an FMEA under External Failures.

4. Do one of the following:

Click New to create a new failure cause and add it to the FMEA.

Click Search to search for an existing failure cause.

5. After you select the required failure cause from the search results, or create a new one, click Add.

If you add a failure cause specification, the corresponding representation object is also added. You can also drag a failure cause from the FMEA tree structure and add it to the function in the net view display.

What to do next

After you perform a failure analysis, you can perform a risk analysis for the failure cause.