FMEA & FMECA

Identify potential failures before they impact your business

A Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) is a procedure for identifying potential failure modes in a system and classifying them according to their severity. The two-part process involves:

• Identifying failure modes and their effects
• Ranking failure modes based on both the severity and probability of that failure mode occurring (Criticality Analysis)

Using the FMECA module of Reliability Workbench™, you get the full framework and reporting facilities to construct FMECAs to industry standards or your own custom requirements. It provides a simple and interactive graphical method for constructing a block diagram, representing logical connections between the sub-systems and components constituting the overall plant or system. You can extend the diagram to represent failure modes at various hierarchical levels.

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Features

 

Automatically Calculate Failure Rate and Criticality Values

Automatically trace failure effects, severity values and failure causes through the system hierarchy, to calculate failure rates and system criticality values

 

Beta Factors

Modify failure rates using beta factors associated with failure modes and individual effects

 

Detectable and Non Detectable Failures

Filter detectable and non-detectable failures in reports and determine the ratio between the frequency of detectable failures and total failures

 

Rapid Data Entry

Quickly enter data using pop-up dialogs which may be accessed simply by clicking on the relevant part of the block diagram. Increase efficiency and consistency with a master phrase library which contains commonly used descriptions of component parts, failure modes and effects

 

Phrase Library

Build up your own phrase libraries or add to the master library provided

 

Data Verification

Use consistency checks to verify data

 

Standard and Custom Reporting

Easily generate reports and export to PDF format for distribution