Design FMEA

Relyence Failure Direct Connect: Bridging FRACAS and FMEA for Continuous Improvement

Relyence Failure Direct Connect seamlessly integrates your DFMEAs, PFMEAs & FMECAs with your FRACAS data, providing valuable insights into the failure mechanism. By linking real-world failure data directly to your FMEA, Relyence closes the loop between your warranty returns and future design iterations.

One standout feature is the ability for users to suggest FMEA updates directly from FRACAS entries. This ensures that new issues are promptly incorporated into your FMEA, keeping your analysis current and comprehensive. The result? Enhanced collaboration, faster response times, and a powerful feedback loop that drives ongoing product reliability improvements.

Custom FMEA Mode Library: Standardised, Efficient, and Tailored for Your Needs

The Custom FMEA Mode Library introduces a powerful way to streamline your piece-part DFMEA and FMECA processes. By creating a centralised repository of predefined failure modes and associated percentages for each part type, this feature ensures standardisation and consistency across your entire organisation.

Engineers no longer need to start from scratch for every analysis. Instead, they can leverage a comprehensive, predefined set of failure modes, accelerating the FMECA process and reducing the risk of missing critical issues.

The integration with Relyence Reliability Prediction also allows for a quick startup, pulling in relevant data when importing a Bill of Materials (BOM).

For teams following specific industry standards, such as AIAG & VDA for automotive, Relyence offers updated templates and reports aligned with these guidelines, simplifying compliance.

Relyence FMEA and FRACAS empower you to take full control of your processes with customisable Workflows, Approvals, and Notifications. Designed to manage every step from start to finish, our intuitive Workflow Editor lets you tailor processes to your team structure and specific requirements. Configure everything with ease—from workflow steps and approval settings to automated notification messages and schedules.

Keep your team aligned and informed with a system that ensures seamless collaboration and accountability. Notifications prompt action at key stages, while approval mechanisms ensure compliance and precision. With Relyence, your workflows are as agile and efficient as your projects demand, giving you the flexibility to adapt and thrive in any industry.

Control Your FMEAs with Relyence Knowledge Banks

Relyence Knowledge Banks streamline your FMEA process by providing a centralised repository for all your approved FMEA data, failure modes, effects, causes, and corrective actions. Engineers can search this data to quickly access proven solutions, saving time and ensuring consistency across projects.

The push feature allows you to effortlessly update your analyses with the latest information, keeping your analyses aligned and compliant. Plus, with built-in usage tracking, you gain visibility into how often and where your Knowledge Banks data is being applied, helping to identify best practices and areas for improvement. It’s a smarter, more efficient way to drive your risk analysis.

The Relyence SmartSuggest feature allows users to select from relevant data previously populated, i.e.,

• SmartSuggest automates the process by which failure causes at higher levels are identified as Failure Modes at the next lower level. It connects the lower-level Failure Mode to its related higher-level Cause. The Severity of the lower-level Mode is automatically set to match the Severity of the parent Failure Mode associated with the higher-level Cause.
• Automate failure Modes at higher levels, becoming Effects at the next lower level. The lower-level Failure Effect is then connected to the higher-level Failure Mode. The Effect Severity for the lower-level Effect is automatically set to the maximum value from the Failure Mode Severity from the higher-level Failure Mode and any associated Failure Effects.