FMEA software

FMEA Software for Design and Process Risk

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is only useful if it stays connected to the process it describes and the controls it demands. EasyQualityFlow holds DFMEA and PFMEA as controlled documents built on the same operations your control plan uses.

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The FMEA list showing DFMEA and PFMEA records for parts P-101 and P-100 with revisions, AIAG-VDA method and Draft, Review and Released states, above a row showing failure mode through to action.

The problem

The FMEA that nobody opens between audits.

An FMEA goes stale in a specific way. The process changes, the control plan gets updated because the shop needs it to be right, and the FMEA — which is the document that was supposed to justify the control — is updated last, or not at all. By the next audit the two documents describe different factories.

When the FMEA and the control plan are built on the same operation list, that drift becomes visible instead of invisible. And when the FMEA is a controlled document with a revision and a review state, "we updated it" is a fact with a date on it rather than a claim.

DFMEA and PFMEA

Design and process analysis in one place, each with its own structure and both against the same part.

AIAG-VDA structure

Failure mode, effect, cause, prevention control, detection control, risk evaluation and action.

Built on your operations

PFMEA rows attach to the process operations you have already defined, rather than a free-text list.

Revisions

Revision A, B, C — each a real revision of a controlled document, with history.

Draft → Review → Released

A review workflow, so a released FMEA is one somebody actually approved.

Actions that close

Recommended actions carry an owner and a state, and closing one is recorded.

Where it sits

FMEA is stage three, between the plan and the controls.

The plan says a PFMEA is owed. The process supplies the operations it analyses. The control plan is where its detection controls end up. Sitting in the middle is what makes it worth maintaining.

DFMEA and PFMEA against the same part record
Rows attached to real process operations
Revision control with change history
Draft, Review and Released states
Actions with owners and closure
High-risk items carried into the control plan

On AIAG and VDA, precisely. EasyQualityFlow implements the AIAG-VDA FMEA method — the seven-step structure, the terminology, and Action Priority as an evaluation output. It is not an AIAG or VDA product and holds no endorsement, approval or certification from either organisation. The manuals and their rating tables are licensed to you; the software provides the workflow and the calculations, and your licensed reference data is loaded by you and referenced by link, never reproduced inside the product.

Connected capabilities

Every one of these works on the same record. That is the point of the platform.

DFMEA software

Design risk analysis, before the process exists.

PFMEA software

Process risk analysis, operation by operation.

Control plan software

What is measured, how, how often, and what happens on failure.

FAQ

Questions about FMEA software

What is an FMEA?

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is a structured way of asking what could go wrong, how bad it would be, how likely it is, and whether you would catch it — then doing something about the combinations that matter most. It is done before production, and revisited whenever the design or the process changes.

What is the difference between DFMEA and PFMEA?

A DFMEA analyses the design: what could fail about the part itself, and what the design does to prevent it. A PFMEA analyses the manufacturing process: what could go wrong at each operation, and which control would catch it. Both are supported, against the same part.

Does the software use Action Priority or RPN?

The AIAG-VDA structure is implemented, in which Action Priority is the evaluation output. The rating tables that drive any such evaluation are licensed reference material — the software provides the structure and the workflow, and your licensed tables are data you load rather than content shipped inside the product.

Can an approved FMEA be edited?

Not in place. A released FMEA is superseded by a new revision, which is the point of revision control — the version somebody approved stays exactly as they approved it, and the change has a reason and a date.

Is the FMEA connected to the control plan?

Yes, through the process operations both are built on. Detection controls identified in the PFMEA carry through into the control plan rather than being re-typed into it.

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