ASENT offers the most robust FMECA capability
on the market today. With true relational integrity between causes, failure
modes, and next effects, you can be assured of the accuracy of your analysis
results. You can specify multiple next effects and end effects for each
failure mode. The built-in library of part types, along with failure modes
and failure mode distributions, greatly reduces the time involved during
piece-part level FMECA.
ASENT’s FMECA tools support functional,
hardware, or combined FMECAs. With the unique ability to specify a function
and then link the function to a group of board parts, ASENT allows you to
effectively model depot-level isolation and repair activities.
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ASENT lets you perform top-down or bottom-up
FMECAs, and gives you the flexibility to enter data as it becomes available
rather than in a forced order. Assemblies, parts, and signals can be modeled
along with the related failure modes and effects. The relationship between
failure modes, effects, and the tree structure are tracked automatically so
that updates are easy to make at any time. After the updates have been
completed, failure mode ratios and criticality numbers can be recalculated
and new reports generated with the simple tap of a key.
Often, the tree structure used in performing
a FMECA differs from the hardware tree used for a reliability prediction.
Because of this, ASENT provides full tree editing capability in the FMECA
Manager. The reliability tree can be used to whatever extent desired, but
you have the flexibility to deviate from it when needed.
New features make it even easier to identify
critical items, critical failure modes and safety hazards, and develop and document
recommended actions to mitigate their effect.
Since the FMECA process can be a considerable
documentation effort, ASENT’s powerful Completeness Checker helps to assess
your FMECA status at a moment’s notice and identify any missing data –
another great time saver!
