Define FMEA Controls

Explanation

Use this activity to enter information about one or many controls associated with each cause.Controls are activities that may assist in the identification, prevention and/or detection of design or process failures, or their effects.

Detection is an assessment of the ability of the proposed control. Each control has a detection ranking. Each cause has one or many defined control(s). These control(s) will be evaluated as a group for each cause when assessing the detection ranking used for risk priority number (RPN) calculation. Therefore, the most efficient control takes precedence when calculating the RPN number. This means that the lowest detection ranking will be used for the RPN calculation.

Prerequisites

This activity requires the existence of at least one structure or routing alternate. This alternate must be associated with at least one FMEA function, failure, cause, and effect.

System Effects

As a result of this activity, you will have entered information about one or more FMEA controls, and their detection ranking, that are related to the cause.

Window

FMEA Failure Causes Details

Related Window Descriptions

FMEA Failure Causes Details

Procedure

  1. 1. In the Controls tab, enter information about one or more FMEA controls related to the cause.
  2. Click Save (F12).