You can help ensure quality products by using control plans with your FMEA. Control plans provide a structured approach for specifying and implementing controls for the system, thus ensuring that the process remains in a state of control throughout the product life cycle.

The FMEA module includes support for control plans. The topics in this section include:

When control plans are in use, you can customize data fields for the FMEA Control Plans table, any of its enabled subtables, and the FMEA Control Plan Headers table in the Project’s Data Definition file. For more information, see Data Definition Files. Additionally, you can report on control plans using the Report Design file named FMEA Control Plan, which is available by default in the Common Library.