Integrated Control Plan, DVP&R, DRBFM and Other Analyses in Xfmea

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Integrated APQP and Relationship Diagrams

ReliaSoft's Xfmea software facilitates integration between your FMEAs and related Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) activities, such as Control Plans, DVP&Rs and Design Reviews Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM). The software also provides an integrated diagramming utility that supports Process Flow Diagrams, Functional Block Diagrams and Relationship Diagrams.

Transfer Design FMEA (DFMEA) to Process FMEA (PFMEA)
You can leverage existing knowledge by automatically transferring relevant data from the Design FMEA (DFMEA) to provide the starting point for a new Process FMEA (PFMEA). For example, the causes of failure that have been identified for your design can be transferred as failure modes to consider when analyzing the manufacturing process.

To provide maximum flexibility, the software allows you to specify what information will be transferred and how it will be “mapped” to the new analysis.

Control Plan and DVP&R Utilities
Xfmea's integrated Control Plan and Design Verification Plan and Report (DVP&R) utilities allow you to transfer relevant data from the FMEA to provide a starting point for related APQP analyses, which are then stored together with the FMEA for easy access. You can customize the data fields that are captured and generate reports in Word or Excel.

Control Plan Utility
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Design Review Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM) - New in Version 4!
Xfmea now supports the Design Review Based on Failure Mode (DRBFM) analysis methodology that is used in the automotive and other industries to evaluate proposed changes to an existing design. This utility provides two views of the analysis, one for the Design Engineer to prepare the initial draft of the analysis and one for the entire Review Team to expand on the initial draft if necessary and identify appropriate corrective actions.

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By attaching the DRBFM to an existing FMEA, you will be able to transfer relevant function descriptions from the FMEA, analyze the concerns that may have been introduced by the change and then transfer selected issues back to the original FMEA, if applicable.

Process Flow Diagrams
You can generate a Process Flow Diagram for any item in your analysis, edit and annotate the diagram as necessary then print the diagram or copy/paste the metafile graphic into other documents.

Process Flow Diagram Utility
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Functional Block Diagrams
Xfmea now provides a utility to build Functional Block Diagrams and store them together with the FMEA. You can build the diagram "from scratch" or based on the system configuration that you've defined in the software. These diagrams are metafile graphics that can be pasted into reports and other documents.

Functional Block Diagram
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Relationship Diagrams
Xfmea provides automatically generated Cause and Effect Diagrams (also called “Fishbone” or “Ishikawa” diagrams) and Failure Relationship Diagrams to help you visualize the relationships among issues in your analyses.

Cause and Effect Diagram
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