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Relex FMEA, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

FMEA Table

Relex ® FMEA/FMECA was designed to handle your Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (FMEAs) with unsurpassed power and flexibility. The methodology contained within Relex FMEA allows you to quickly and easily analyse the potential failure modes of your system and the resulting effects of those failures. Supporting a variety of formats, Relex FMEA is equally adept at performing process, design, functional, and piece-part level FMEAs. Additionally, Relex FMEA takes FMEA processes to a new level by supporting two fully-featured compatible FMEA versions: a Windows-based application and a zero-client web-based front end. By allowing you to select your FMEA data entry mechanism, Relex FMEA supports a collaborative environment conducive to a successful FMEA process.

 

Fully compliant. Relex FMEA supports commonly used standards such as the MIL-STD-1629A FMECA standard (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis), the SAE ARP5580 FMEA standard, the SAE J1739 FMEAs, the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) FMEA, Daimler Chrysler, Ford, and GM FMEA methodologies, IEC 60812, and BS 5760. You are also free to create your own completely customized FMEA, or modify one of the supplied templates to suit your needs.

 

Full FMEA features. The Relex FMEA module supports fault equivalencies to allow grouping of like failure modes and consequences to ensure consistency and efficiency in your FMEA process. Libraries of failure mode data are supplied with Relex FMEA, including RAC FMD-97 and HAZOP (Hazard and Operability). Relex FMEA supports criticality assessment through risk priority numbers (RPN), criticality ranks, risk levels, criticality matrices, and failure mode probability calculations. Additionally, Relex FMEA supports exporting to LSAR compatible formats.

 

The Relex FMEA advantage. Relex FMEA's clear advantage is its customisation capabilities. Allowing for a user configurable data structure, user defined calculations, and customisable severity and criticality assessment methods, Relex FMEA provides ultimate flexibility. With extensive failure mode libraries, automatic roll-up and building features, Relex FMEA is the choice of analysis professionals.


The Relex Architect platform. Relex FMEA includes all the advanced features of Relex Architect's robust, proven framework. A rich user interface is coupled with innovative features such as the invaluable Project Navigator for centralized Project control, the Relex Bar for customised one-click operations, the Task List for quick access to commonly used tasks, and data filtering for ultimate user control of data views.

 

Comprehensive reporting capabilities include easy-to-use Report and Graph Wizards for complete user customisation of output reports and graphs. Relex's Import/Export Wizard enables you to transfer your Project data to and from Relex in a variety of popular formats, including Microsoft Excel ® and Access ® . Additionally, Relex Architect modules are built on a common data-base, for optimal product integration and data sharing capabilities.

 

Built for the enterprise. Relex's Enterprise Edition supports the high performance, scalable needs of large user bases. Features such as support for Microsoft SQL Server ® and Oracle ® databases, permission based security, user and group roles, front end web interfaces, Relex Dashboard for a high-level overview of system metrics, audit trails for tracking data modifications, and customisable data connectors insure that Relex meets the needs of full scale, enterprise-wide teams.

 

Advanced FMEA features. Relex FMEA supports several features to insure that your FMEA analysis can be performed with efficiency and thoroughness. Relex FMEA can optionally roll-up failure effects to next level failure modes, and supports building, which enables automatic trickle-down of your FMEA data from higher levels to lower system levels. Relex FMEA uniquely supports both piece-part and functional FMEAs within the same Project on the same system, and allows you to define your own FMEA data structure hierarchy to completely customise your FMEA. Customisable workflow and alerts also provide for process control and automatic notifications. In addition, Relex FMEA provides a number of unique user interface features such as merged cells and cell-based formatting functions. Relex FMEA advanced features enable your FMEA process to be streamlined, efficient, and comprehensive.

 

FEATURES & BENEFITS

 

All industry standard FMEA/FMECA formats supported
Automatic roll-up and building
Web-based user interface
Customisable workflow
Alert module for notification of critical criteria
Automatic FMEA modes look-up based on reliability prediction analysis
Supplied failure mode libraries
Fault equivalence identification numbers (FINs)
Criticality matrix
Risk level
Criticality rank
Risk priority number (RPN) calculations

 

Technical Highlights

 

Supported FMEA Types
Process
Design
Functional
Component
Automotive
Piece-part


Supported Standards
MIL-STD-1629A
FMD-97
BS5760
HAZOP
SAE ARP5580
AIAG
SAE J1739
Ford
GM
Daimler-Chrysler
IEC 60812


Supported Calculations
Mode failure rates
Criticality
Risk priority number (RPN)
Risk level
Percent isolation
Percent detection
User-definable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Failure Mode Libraries
FMD-97
FMD-91
MIL-HDBK-338
NPRD3
RADC-TR-84-244
RADC-TR-844 4-A


Data Hierarchy
Mode Only
Single effect per mode
Multiple effects per mode
Multiple effects per cause
Multiple causes per effect


Interface Types
Windows
Web, zero-client


Specialized Formatting
Background colour
Text colour
Font style
Font size
Marked cell
Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis Outputs
Standard formats per specifications
Criticality matrices
Risk levels
Failure likelihood rank
Top (n) failure modes by RPN
Failure modes and effects summary
Top (n) failure modes by mode criticality
Action item list
Failure mode cause Pareto


Data Linkages
Event Tree
Fault Tree
FMEA
RBD
OpSim
Reliability Prediction


Import/Export Formats
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Access
Text
LSAR
Graph Types
Area
Bar
Line
Pareto
Pie
Scatter
Stacking bar

 

 

 

Report Formats
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Adobe PDF
RTF
HTML


Databases Supported
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE)
Microsoft Jet Engine (Access compatible)


Enterprise Modules
Administrator
Audit trail
Alerts
Architect
Dashboard


Available Services
Software module training
Theory training
Professional consulting services
Web-based RETAIN (online training) sessions
Expert technical support
Online customer support centre