Creating or Selecting a Requirement

You can edit or select a requirement of a function or an operation to be analyzed in a causality relationship of an FMEA table of your system.

Warning: The template associated with the table must enable the insertion of a requirement column in the table.

The following scenario deals with the Design FMEA.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Select a function in the first cell of a causality relationship in an FMEA table. For more information, see Selecting a Function or an Operation.
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About the Structure Tree

Create a Requirement

You can create a requirement directly in a causality relationship.

  1. Select the Functional Requirement cell.
  2. Enter some text in the area and use the context toolbar elements to format this text.
  3. From the context toolbar, click Create Requirement .
    The requirement is created and its content data appears in a tile of the requirement cell.

The requirement appears in the Structure Tree.

Select an Existing Requirement

You can insert in a causality relationship an existing requirement.

Drag a requirement from another widget (for example, Traceable Requirements Management) or from the 3DSearch, and then drop it to the Functional Requirement cell.

Note: If requirements are associated with the function, you can select the Functional Requirement cell and select a requirement in the list.

The content data of the requirement appears in a tile.

The requirement appears in the Structure Tree.