FMEA Forms

The Relyence FMEA Worksheet view is augmented with the Relyence FMEA Forms interface that offers a form-based view of your FMEA data. The Form View supports the same features and functionality of the Worksheet interface. The Form View can be used as your main interface if you prefer, or you can access it on-demand to get an expanded view of a single FMEA line item. Moving between the two views is a streamlined one-click operation.

Risk Metrics

Relyence FMEA supports the automatic assessment of risk metrics of your identified failures. Available metrics include Risk Priority Numbers (RPN) used in AIAG and SAE J1739 compliant FMEAs, the criticality values defined in MIL-STD-1629 FMECAs, and Action Priorities (AP) as described in the AIAG & VDA FMEA standard.

RPN and AP values are color-coded based on risk level, and can be customized to meet your needs. Relyence FMEA RPN, AP, and criticality values can be included in your Relyence FMEA Dashboards allowing you to monitor these vital statistics at a high level.

Knowledge Bank^TM

The FMEA Knowledge Bank provides a powerful way to organize and automate your FMEAs. Add any FMEA information from your FMEA to your Knowledge Bank – FMEA Functions, Failure Modes, Effects, Actions, Process Steps, and even full components or systems. As you perform your FMEAs, use the flexible search feature to mine your Knowledge Bank for information pertinent to your analyses. Another single click, and that prior knowledge is retrieved into your current analysis. Never lose any of your critical lessons learned!

Plus, the Relyence FMEA Knowledge Bank keeps your FMEAs in sync automatically, if you desire. Modifications made to your Knowledge Bank data can ripple through all your FMEAs that have data ties to the Knowledge Bank.

FMEA Data Autoflow^TM

Relyence FMEA Data Autoflow enables you to establish and manage relationships between your FMEA data using an automated approach.

For example, consider a FMECA Worksheet where there are typically three levels of Effects: Local Effect, Next Effect, and End Effect. For each line item in your FMECA Worksheet you enter the effect of the failure on the specific item (Local Effect), the effect of the failure on the next level (Next Effect), and finally, the resulting effect at the top-level of the system (End Effect).

When performing the FMECA, it would be beneficial if the Next Effects and End Effects could be entered in the Worksheet in an automated fashion. For example, if the Local Effect is entered at the very top level, this would propagate down my FMECA hierarchy as Next and End Effects at the appropriate lower levels. Based on my FMECA hierarchy, my FMEA software should be able to determine this data relationship and fill in the Worksheet accordingly. This is just one example of what FMEA Data Autoflow has been designed to do.

There are a variety of ways analysts may want to have FMEA data flow up and down Worksheets in an automated way. The connections between FMEA data are dependent not only on what type of FMEA you employ, but also your specific case and organization. For this reason, Relyence FMEA Data Autoflow is completely customizable. In addition, Relyence FMEA Data Autoflow includes a number of predefined Autoflow rules you can select from. These built-in rules are the most commonly used data flows. You can also start with any of the predefined rules and modify them to suit your needs.

This innovative Relyence-only feature means your FMEA process is more controlled and consistent than possible using simple Excel-based FMEA templates.

Failure Direct Connect^TM

The unique-to-Relyence Failure Direct Connect capability offers an innovative and new approach to integrating your FRACAS and FMEA processes.

With Failure Direct Connect, your FRACAS team is able to connect directly to your FMEA failure data. If FRACAS team members uncover a new failure mode, they can make a request that the FMEA team review and decide how to proceed with the newly discovered item.

With this notable feature you have ability to directly connect your FMEA and FRACAS processes and effectively manage your failure information across the product lifecycle.

Formulas

Relyence FMEA includes an intuitive interface to define your own completely customized Formulas. You can create Formulas to operate on your FMEA Worksheet data, as well as Formulas that operate on Analysis Tree data. This powerful feature allows you to create your own equations for keeping track of your own FMEA metrics.

A wide range of flexibility is available for creating basic as well as complex Formulas, such as those including logical operators (AND, OR, <>, etc.), constants, dates, and programmatic functions (if/then/else).

FMEA Formulas also support Roll-up and Aggregate functions such as SUM and AVG to provide cumulative calculations.

Audit Trails

Relyence FMEA supports Audit Trails to track and record all data changes made to your analyses. Often used for security and tracking purposes, audit trails provide a detailed log of data modifications. Audit trails are also helpful to answer critical questions such as “Who made this change?”, or “When was this change made?”.

You can review automatically logged FMEA audit trail data in several ways:

• By individual data field. For example, view all changes made to the “Recommended Action” field.
• By line item. For example, view all changes made to a single Failure Mode.
• Entire FMEA. Generate a full audit trail report for your entire FMEA to an Excel or CSV format.

Excel-based FMEAs are no match for Relyence!

While oftentimes small FMEAs are performed using Excel, the limitations quickly become apparent with this approach. Including the benefits detailed above, the following is a list of the many advantages of relying on the Relyence best-in-class FMEA software tool over Excel for your analyses: