• User-Defined Fields: You can now define up to five user-defined fields for every record type.
• Integrated Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) Features
  • Transfer Design FMEA to Process FMEA: You can leverage existing knowledge by automatically transferring relevant data from the DFMEA to the PFMEA.
  • Control Plan and Design Verification Plan and Report (DVP&R) Utilities: Xfmea's integrated Control Plan and DVP&R utilities allow you to transfer relevant data from the FMEA, store related analyses together and generate reports in Word or Excel. [Sample Control Plan Report - 92 KB, PDF]  [Sample DVP&R Report - 98 KB, PDF]
  • 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.

• Relationship Diagrams: Xfmea provides two new diagrams that help to visualize the cause and effect relationships within your analysis. This includes:
  • Cause and Effect Diagrams (also called "Fishbone" or "Ishikawa" diagrams), which provides a graphical depiction of the cascading effects of failure.
  • Failure Relationship Diagrams, which shows all of the causes and effects that have been identified for a given failure mode.

Cause and Effect Diagram
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• Prioritizing Issues: Xfmea provides several new features that provide more flexibility for prioritizing and identifying issues for corrective actions. This includes:
  • Severity x Occurrence: A new pareto (bar) chart shows issues ranked by SxO. You can also sort by SxO in the filtered view for Causes and/or use the SxO metric to define priority highlights.
  • Use Priority Colors in Pareto (Bar) Charts: If desired, your pareto (bar) charts can display the high, medium and low priority highlight colors that you have defined.
  • Priority Colors for Criticality Matrix: If desired, the quantitative or qualitative criticality matrix reports (generated via the Criticality Analysis utility) can now include highlight colors to identify high, medium and low priority issues.

Severity x Occurrence Pareto (Bar) Chart with Priority Colors

• Import System Configuration (BOM) from Excel: The new Item Import Template allows you to import a full system configuration, including any relevant item properties and reliability information, from another system.
• Import Wizard: This new utility combines query and import capabilities to make it easier to build new system configurations based on existing analyses. For example, if you have a new design that includes components that have already been analyzed for other systems, you can use the Import Wizard to find the existing analyses and import them automatically into your new system configuration.

Import Wizard
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• Query Database and Save and Re-Use Queries: In addition to the ability to search for any record in a single project based on any of the record properties, the new Database Query utility allows you to search multiple projects simultaneously. In addition, you can save and re-use any of the queries that you perform in either utility.
• Filter Select Existing Windows: You can now filter the options within "Select Existing" windows, which allow you to re-use descriptions from pre-defined phrase libraries and/or other portions of the analysis. For example, you can get a list of all other failure modes in the database that contain the word "leak" and then automatically select a description to use in the current analysis.
• Find and Replace: A new utility allows you to Find and Replace text in any record within the database.

• Manually Lock Projects: In addition to the ability to "lock" individual items to prevent other users from modifying the analysis, you now have the ability to lock an entire project. (Item and Project Locking is available in Xfmea Enterprise and login secure databases in Xfmea Standard.)

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