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Tools and Special Features
Support for Large
Multi-Level System Configurations
The software’s flexible System
Hierarchy panel allows you to manage large multi-level system
configurations with an unlimited number of levels and an unlimited
number of items within each level. You can fully define the equipment
properties (such as supplier, part number, expected operating
environment, etc.) for each item and perform the analysis at any level
within the system configuration.
To facilitate data entry, you can copy/paste sections of the
configuration, import sections from another analysis, promote/demote
branches of the hierarchy with the click of a button and much more. The
software also provides a simple Excel template for importing
configuration data from an outside data source, such as a Bill of
Materials (BOM) system.
Import Wizard
The Import Wizard combines
query and import capabilities to make it easier to build new system
configurations based on existing analyses. For example, if you have a
new design that includes components that have already been analyzed for
other systems, you can use the Import Wizard to find the existing
analyses and import them automatically into your new system
configuration.
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Import Wizard
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Analysis Planning
Utility
The Analysis Planning utility
allows you to keep track of team members, ground rules and assumptions,
estimated completion dates, scheduled work sessions and other details to
help you plan and manage your analysis projects.
The utility also includes a Quality Survey form, which allows you to
evaluate the quality of the FMEA document and the analysis process to
identify areas for future improvement.
The ability to work
with each analysis plan individually or view a summary of all pending analysis
projects makes this a valuable planning and management tool for your
organization's FMEA/FMECA analysis efforts.
Analysis Plan Utility
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Flexible
Capability for Links and Attachments
You can link or attach
independent files to any record in your analysis. This makes it
easy for you to keep related information (such as flowcharts,
design drawings, reliability analysis files, procedure
instructions, etc.) together with the full analysis.
In addition, the new Integrated Document feature allows you to
attach a Word document to an item and include the entire
document within the print-ready reports generated by the
software.
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Find
and Replace
To help with consistency and
data management, Xfmea provides a
utility to quickly find and replace text in any record within the
database.
Weibull++, ALTA, BlockSim, RCM++
and XFRACAS Integration
Xfmea
is integrated with ReliaSoft's
Weibull++ and
ALTA software packages to
allow you to obtain reliability distribution and parameter information
from an existing data file. You can also export system configuration,
reliability and failure mode data to and reliability properties to
ReliaSoft's BlockSim
for more detailed system analysis using either Reliability Block
Diagrams (RBDs) or Fault Trees. Weibull++, ALTA and/or BlockSim must
be installed on your computer to use this functionality.
In addition,
Xfmea is fully integrated with
RCM++, ReliaSoft's
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis software. Databases that
you create with Xfmea can be opened by users with the RCM++ package (and
vice versa) and you can easily upgrade to RCM++ if your needs expand to
include maintenance planning.
The data from your Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action
System (FRACAS) can be a valuable input to your FMEAs by identifying
failure modes and allowing you to estimate the frequency with which a
problem occurs in the field. Xfmea provides integration with
ReliaSoft's Web-based FRACAS
system,
XFRACAS,
by allowing you to export incident data from
XFRACAS to
a file that can be imported by
Xfmea . Likewise, you can import system
configuration and/or FMEA data from Xfmea to
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