Displaying Computed Effects

You can display the calculated effects for a system by propagating the failure modes defined at high-levels of the architecture.

In the following scenario, the system corresponds to a logical system. The behavior is the same for other systems, except that for a PFMEA, the effects are selected between the MBOM items that are outputs of the operation.

See Also
About Higher-Level Effects
About Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Editing Effects
  1. Optional: From the Edit section of the action bar, select a level of display:
    OptionDescription
    Display Calculated Effects: One Level Shows computed effects that are directly propagated from a higher-level causality relationship. This is the default value.
    Display Calculated Effects: All Levels Shows all computed effects that are directly propagated or propagated by other effects.
    Hide Calculated Effects Hides the display of propagated effects.
  2. To define a failure effect, select an effect cell or click in the lower right of the cell.
    A list displays the failure modes of functions or operations implemented in context respectively by the current function or operation, if some failure modes are defined.
  3. Select a failure mode.
    Depending on the selected propagation, the implemented function or operation, and the failure modes appear in a tile of the cell.
  4. Optional: To define more than one effect for a function, repeat steps 2 and 3 for each effect.