FMEA Warnings Pane
In the FMEA Warnings window, the FMEA Warnings pane displays the warnings generated for the active FMEA in the FMEA Table. To select the assembly, part, or FMEA Worksheet record that is referenced in the warning, double-click the warning or click the green arrow button to the left of the warning. This clears any applied user filter, selects the FMEA Tree Items record, and then selects the FMEA Worksheet record.
Listed in the following table are descriptions of the warnings that can appear. Warnings are listed by FMEA data level. FMEA identifiers appear within single quotation marks.
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Warning
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Condition
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Item Warnings
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The part ‘X’ has no items associated with it.
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This part has no items associated with it in the FMEA Worksheet table.
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The assembly ‘X’ has no items associated with it.
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This assembly has no records associated with it in the FMEA Worksheet table.
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‘Item Identifier’ has an Item Failure Rate of zero.
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The value for Failure Rate is blank or zero for the item record. The default prompt for this field, Failure Rate, is used here, even if it is assigned a custom prompt.
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The sum of the Item Percentages for ‘FMEA Tree Identifier’ is X.
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The sum of Item Percentage values for all child item records is not equal to 100 for the parent FMEA tree item. If you leave Item Percentage blank, it is assumed that the percentage is 100.
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Mode Warnings
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‘Item Identifier’ has no Failure Modes associated with it.
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There are no mode records for the item record.
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‘Mode Identifier’ has a blank Failure Mode.
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The value for Failure Mode is blank for the mode record. The default prompt for this field, Failure Mode, is used here, even if it is assigned a custom prompt.
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The sum of the Mode Percentages for ‘Item Identifier’ is X.
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The sum of Mode Percentage values for all child mode records is not equal to 100 for the parent item record. If you leave Mode Percentage blank, it is assumed that the percentage is 100.
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Criticality Rank and Risk Level cannot be calculated because the Criticality Rank field is not defined in the FMEA Design file.
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Criticality Rank is either not defined in the Project’s FMEA Design file (first warning to the left) or it is defined at a different FMEA data level than Risk Level (second warning to the left). Because these warnings correspond to your FMEA data structure and not to specific FMEA Worksheet records, clicking either of them does not take you anywhere. For more information, see:
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Risk Level cannot be calculated because Risk Level and Criticality Rank are not defined at the same FMEA Data Level.
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‘Mode Identifier’ has a blank Severity.
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The value for Severity is blank. The type of record checked for this condition (item, mode, cause, or effect) is determined by the level at which Severity is defined in the FMEA Design file.
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Effect Warnings
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‘Mode Identifier’ has no Effects associated with it.
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The value for Effect is blank for the child record. This check is performed when you use a FMEA Design structure with multiple effects. The data level of the record checked for this condition depends on your FMEA data structure. For example, assume that you are using the item > mode >cause > effect structure. In this case, if the cause record had no effects, the message is: ‘Cause Identifier’ has no Effects associated with it.
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‘Effect Identifier’ has a blank Local Effect.
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The value for Local Effect is blank. The type of record checked for this condition (mode or effect) is determined by the level at which Local Effect is defined in the FMEA Design file. If the FMEA Design structure supports multiple effects, Local Effect is always at the effect level. If the structure does not support multiple effects, Local Effect is at the mode level. In this case, the message is: ‘Mode Identifier’ has a blank local effect.
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The sum of the Effect Percentages for ‘Mode Identifier’ is X.
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The sum of Effect Percentage values for child effect records is not equal to 100 for the parent mode record.
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