• For a process FMEA, the only wizard page is for type selection. When you select Process as the type and click Next, the final page of the New FMEA Wizard appears. Clicking Finish on this page inserts the process FMEA. You then manually insert assemblies and parts in the FMEA tree to represent the process stages and substages to analyze. You can have any number of independent process FMEAs in the System file. For each item in the FMEA tree, you must either supply a failure rate or link the item to another item in the System file. For more information, see FMEA Tree Data Linking.

• For a functional FMEA, additional wizard pages appear after the page for type selection. When you select Functional as the type and click Next, the Select FMEA Basis page appears. On this page, you indicate whether you want to use a copy of a system tree as the starting point for the FMEA tree. If you choose to do this and multiple system tree configurations exist, you must select the configuration to use. While the FMEA tree that is created initially is a copy of the selected system tree, these two trees are not tied together in any way. You can manually insert and delete assemblies and parts in the FMEA tree as necessary to represent the hierarchy of the functions to analyze. You can have any number of functional FMEAs in the System file. For each item that you insert in the FMEA tree, you must either supply a failure rate or link the item to another item in the System file.

• For a component FMEA, additional wizard pages appear after the one for type selection. When you select Component as the type and click Next, if multiple system tree configurations exist, you must select the one to tie to the FMEA tree. Additionally, on the Select Modules Action page that appears, you indicate whether you want to insert failure modes for all parts in this configuration from enabled FMEA Modes Library files. For more information, see FMEA Modes Library Files. You can have only one component FMEA per configuration. You cannot change the configuration after the FMEA is inserted. Because these two trees are tied together, if you make a change in either tree, the same change is made in the other tree. For each record in the FMEA Tree Items table, the failure rate is either the value entered for Item Failure Rate in the FMEA Worksheet table or the failure rate for the same item in the System Tree Items table to which it is tied.