Design FMEA
Aegix builds the DFMEA structure from the requirements and specifications you already have, drafts functions and failure modes for your engineers to review, and keeps every failure mode linked to the requirement it threatens.
The system, its subsystems and an interface, with the requirement and the failure modes on the selected function.
The method
Aegix follows the AIAG & VDA steps for a design analysis. Each step starts from what the previous one produced, so nothing is entered twice.
System, subsystems, components and the interfaces between them.
What each element has to do, with the requirement it has to meet.
The failure mode of the focus element, its effect one level up and its cause one level down.
Severity, occurrence and detection, and the Action Priority they give.
Prevention and detection actions with an owner and a due date, then the new ratings.
Requirements
Requirements come from your ALM, such as Codebeamer or Polarion, and keep their id. Each function carries the requirement it meets, so a failure mode points back to it, and forward to the verification that covers it.
When a requirement changes, you can see which part of the DFMEA depends on it.
The worksheet
Next higher level, focus element and next lower level, their functions, then effect, failure mode and cause, the ratings, the Action Priority and the actions. The worksheet is filled from the structure, not typed twice.
Scroll sideways to see the whole worksheet.
Human in the loop
From your specifications and architecture documents, AI agents draft the structure, the functions and the failure modes. Each draft waits for an engineer to accept, change or reject it.
Questions
A Design FMEA (DFMEA) is a failure mode and effects analysis of a product design. It looks at how the design can fail, what the effects would be and what could cause them, so the risks are reduced before the design is released. The AIAG & VDA handbook describes it in seven steps, from planning to documenting the results.
Aegix builds the DFMEA structure from your requirements and specifications, drafts functions and failure modes for your engineers to review, rates each failure chain with Action Priority, and tracks the actions until the risk is re-rated.
The AIAG & VDA FMEA method, with severity, occurrence and detection ratings and Action Priority. Templates are configurable for other terminology, rating scales or worksheet layouts.
Yes. Aegix reads requirements from your ALM, such as Codebeamer or Polarion, and keeps each one linked to its source. FMEA actions can go to your task tool, such as Jira.
A guided walkthrough with our engineers, on a sample project. Ask a question first if you prefer.
Aegix is a product of XWARE, developed with a grant from Innoviris. XWARE is a partner of hub.brussels.
