The form sheet editor provides an overview of action groups, prevention and detection actions, their status, and the rating for the action groups. You can edit objects in the form sheet. You will see these changes immediately in the FMEA editor.

SOX v3.3 provides three different types of form sheets:

• VDA RPZ

• DFMEA

• PFMEA

VDA RPZ corresponds to the old standard of VDA 4.2. Choosing DFMEA or PFMEA you get the new layout in accordance with the new AIAG & VDA FMEA Guide (2019).

Choose the layout from drop down list Layout at the upper right corner of the FMEA editor.

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The new form sheets: DFMEA / PFMEA

With the new standard form sheet FMEA the risk analysis (step 5) and optimization (step 6) are arranged side by side. The action group spans over both sections. It depends on the status of an action whether it shows up in "Risk Analysis" or "Optimization". This behavior can be tuned by setting preferences (see section Setting Preferences on page ). It is recommended that action status finished is associated with step 5 "Risk Analysis", all other with step 6 "Optimization".

Current state and target state
The ratings in step 5 and step 6 correspond to the current state and target state, respectively. How to set these ratings is described in section Current state and target state on page . The default values for the current state is O=E=10 and for target state it is (O)=(E)=0 (undefined). The AP rating is set accordingly. If any of the ratings S, O, E is undefined the AP rating is set to undefined shown as "U".

Action status "finished"
Whenever an action in "Optimization" is set to finished, the action will be moved to "Risk analysis" and the "Adjust rating" dialog appears. You have three options:

• Adopt proposed values: The target rating is adopted by current rating.

• Do not adjust: The ratings are kept the same.

• Open rating dialog: Adjust the rating manually.

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