The latest upgrade to Xfmea (3.0.1 or higher) includes significant enhancements to the software's features and functionality. This includes:

Analysis Planning Utility
Xfmea's Analysis Plan utility allows you to keep track of team members, ground rules and assumptions, estimated completion dates, scheduled work sessions and more for each FMEA/FMECA analysis project. The utility also includes a Quality Survey form, which allows you to evaluate the quality of the FMEA document and the analysis process to identify areas for future improvement.

The ability to work with each analysis plan individually or view a summary of all pending analysis projects makes this a valuable planning and management tool for your organization's FMEA/FMECA analysis efforts.

Analysis Plan Utility [Click to Enlarge...]

Linked Actions
The Linked Action feature allows you to assign the exact same action record in multiple locations within the analysis. Action tracking reports and charts treat all instances as a single assigned action and when you update the original (source) action, its linked records are updated automatically.

Links/Attachments for Every Record Type
You can now link (store the location) or attach (store a copy) documents to any record in the analysis. For example, you can attach a Root Cause Analysis report to provide more information about a specific failure cause in your analysis, link a findings report to a recommended action, etc.

Integrate Word Documents into Generated Reports
The Integrated Document feature allows you to incorporate a Word document (for example, an item's Description & Operation or Functional Specs) into the print-ready reports generated by the software.

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 [Click to Enlarge...]

Worksheet View Enhancements
Xfmea's Worksheet View is now more flexible and user-friendly than ever. Enhancements include...

• The Split feature allows you to split the worksheet into two panels with independent scroll bars. This allows you to, for example, keep the function and failure records displayed while you scroll through the rest of the worksheet columns on the right.
• The options for adding records are now more flexible, including the ability to type directly into the worksheet to add a new record (instead of opening the Properties window) and the ability to, for example, add a new failure when any worksheet column is selected.
• Increased flexibility to navigate through the worksheet with Tab, Enter and Arrow Keys and new keyboard shortcuts for inserting records and other features. 

Failure Cause Probability
You can now define the probability of each individual failure cause with a time-dependent distribution and parameters (e.g. Weibull, exponential, etc.). This allows you to incorporate failure modes with the data that you export to BlockSim for more extensive system reliability/maintainability analysis.

Set the Description Source from Select Existing Window
To save time, Xfmea allows you to select the data source for Select Existing windows on-the-fly while you are editing a record. This works together with the ability to filter descriptions based on specified keywords to make it easier for you to find and select applicable descriptions from phrase libraries and existing analyses.

Select Existing - Choose Data Source

Import Data from ReliaSoft's MPC 3
The Open Database feature now includes the ability to convert an *.RSM database that was created with ReliaSoft's MPC 3 software. This allows you to import the system configuration, functions, failures, effects and causes from an existing MPC 3 analysis into Xfmea.

Ability to Integrate with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Analysis
Xfmea is fully integrated with RCM++, ReliaSoft's Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis software. Databases that you create with Xfmea can be opened by users with the RCM++ package (and vice versa) and you can easily upgrade to RCM++ if your needs expand to include maintenance planning.

RCM++ for Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM++) Analysis with Integrated FMEA/FMECA [Click to Enlarge...]

See Also: Enhancements in Recent Service Releases (free to registered users)

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