About Analyses and Tables

You can create FMEA tables to represent your analyses.

Required responsibility: Author

This page discusses:

See Also
Template Creation and Deployment

Table Creation

The templates define and customize the content of your FMEA tables, which display your analyses.

The Leader creates these templates. Some templates can provide advanced features, which provide advanced behaviors in tables. For more information, see About Advanced Templates.

Table Description

A template defines which columns are displayed in an FMEA table and what content is proposed and valid for any given cell in this table.



Area Name Description
Causality relationship Corresponds to a line of the table.
Note: Depending on the template that you have selected, an automatic sort can be available, otherwise you can manually reorder lines. To order, you can drag the left cell of a line onto another left cell. You can use Ctrl to multiselect lines.

From the widget preferences, if Show line number is selected, a column with line numbers appears at the left of the table. For more information, see Customizing Preferences.

If validation rules are activated and if a warning or an error is raised, an icon appears at the left of the table.
Editor Corresponds to the editing area of a cell. Depending on the template, an editor can contain values or pointers to objects:
  • A string element
    Tip: Press Shift + Enter to add a line break.
  • An integer element
  • A Boolean
  • Attributes or multivalued string attributes. For more information, see Working with Data Model Specialization.

    An attribute can have a list of authorized values associated with it.

  • One or more tiles containing objects such as a failure mode.

    For all the editors, which display a list, lets you select an object between available objects.

    For example, more than one detection control can be associated with a failure mode.
Characterization A tile can have a characterization associated with it.

For more information, see Managing Characterizations.
Tile Contains an object reference when an editor points to an object.

If a tile contains a reference to a calculated failure mode, its background is gray. This tile is not editable and cannot be removed.

For the editors, which display failure modes, Display propagate tree presents the propagation tree for the current failure mode. If the color of the tile border is orange, the effect contained in the tile is involved in a propagation loop. For more information, see Displaying a Propagation Tree.
Comment A cell can have a thread of comments associated with it. These comments are edited in a specific editor.

In the table,

  • A green triangle indicates that a cell has a public thread of comments associated with it.
  • A red triangle indicates that a cell has a private thread of comments associated with it.
You can only see triangles for the threads that you are allowed to access.

For more information, see Adding Threads of Comments.
Groups Depending on the applied template, a column can contain tiles with group values used to define the logical group it belongs. The group number associated with the tile is displayed at the upper left of the tile.

For more information, see Managing Logical Groups.