Integration with Product Development Process and Other Reliability Tools
Support for Large Multi-Level System Configurations
Xfmea’s flexible System Hierarchy interface allows you to manage large, multi-level system configurations with as many levels as you need (and any number of items per level). You can fully define the properties for each item (e.g., supplier, part number, reliability characteristics) and you can perform FMEA and related analyses at any level within the configuration. To save time, you can automatically import system configuration data from an external Bill of Materials file.
Design for Reliability (DFR) Planner
Xfmea's new DFR planner allows you to track and manage the stages in the Design for Reliability (DFR) process for a particular system, assembly or component. You can configure the plan templates to fit particular processes and needs. You can also utilize Xfmea’s powerful action management capabilities to keep track of the DFR activities that need to be performed by different members of the team.
Change Point Analysis or Preliminary Risk Assessment
The Risk Discovery Analysis feature provides a choice of two configurable methods for the preliminary analysis that will help you choose which items should receive more detailed consideration via FMEA (e.g., a change point analysis or preliminary risk assessment). The first option allows you to answer a series of yes/no questions and the second option allows you to assign ratings for a variety of different factors and then calculate an overall criticality value for each item.
Failure Modes and Reliability Analysis (FMRA)
You can use the new failure modes and reliability analysis (FMRA) feature to integrate statistical reliability analysis calculations into your FMEA activities. Specifically, this view can be used to:
- Display all of the FMEA records that could have an impact on system reliability in a single hierarchical tree, and use this view to define the relevant reliability characteristics.
- Calculate the probabilities of failure required for a quantitative criticality analysis.
- Use the occurrence ratings that have been defined in the FMEA to generate a preliminary baseline reliability estimate for the system that can be improved later when actual failure data become available.
- Synchronize with BlockSim’s reliability block diagrams (RBDs) or fault trees, which facilitate more realistic system modeling (e.g., by considering redundancy, common cause failures, etc.).
Analysis Plans
The analysis plan utility allows you to keep track of team members, ground rules, estimated completion dates, scheduled work sessions and other details that will help you to plan and manage your analysis projects. The software makes it easy to generate a high-level overview of all pending analysis projects and also to generate a report for each individual project plan.
