FMECA Libraries Definition

You can access and change the FMECA libraries at any stage of working with a project. However, when working with your project for the first time, the following three libraries must have at least one value defined for: Phase, Severity and End Effect. The rest of the libraries are optional.

First Time Definition of the FMECA Libraries

1.	Define / add additional phases and duration time for each phase.

2.	Define / enter at least one Severity category.

3.	You can define any number of Severity Categories later on in the project.

Important note: The order in which the Severity categories appear in the Severity library is important. The severity category appearing in the first line of the severity library is considered the most critical in the FMECA reports.

4.	Define / enter at least one End Effect with the Severity rank.

Each End Effect must have a Severity Rank specified.

Optional FMECA Libraries

The Failure Mode, Cause and Component Libraries are optional. These three libraries may be very useful during the FMECA information input.

The Failure Mode and Cause libraries may contain user’s definitions of the Failure Modes that may be selected from the list. This saves time for typing and allows you to achieve consistency of spelling.

The Component library serves for recording of the failure modes data for different components/parts based on the component’s Family, Item Code and Type. The data is based on the FMD 97 publication from the RAC, USA.

Testability Analysis Libraries

Test Type, Test and Indication Libraries are used for the Testability Analysis.

At least one Test Type and Test must be defined when you start performing the Testability Analysis.

Subtest library contain different subtests for the user to select during Testability Analysis information input.