Preliminary Analyses
Change Point Analysis or Preliminary Risk Assessment
Xfmea 5's new Risk Discovery Analysis feature provides a choice of two configurable methods to help determine which items should receive more detailed consideration via FMEA (such as a change point analysis or preliminary risk assessment). One method prompts you to answer a series of yes/no questions, while the other method allows you to assign ratings for a variety of different factors and then calculates an overall criticality value for each item.
Analysis Plans
The Analysis Plan utility keeps track of team members, ground rules and assumptions, scheduled work sessions and other details that will help you plan and manage your analysis projects. Xfmea provides a high-level overview of all pending analysis projects and also makes it easy to generate reports for individual project plans.
Functional Block Diagrams (Boundary Diagrams)
A functional block diagram can define the scope of a particular analysis project and also provides information about interactions, inputs and outputs that may help the team identify potential failure modes. If you don't have existing diagram files that you wish to attach to the analysis, Xfmea provides a Functional Block Diagram utility that allows you to build these diagrams and store them together with your FMEAs.
