The FMEA Editor

The FMEA editor shows you all process and system elements of an FMEA document. You can also see the associated functions, malfunctions, product and process characteristics, diagnosis functions, as well as requirements and project safety goals assigned to elements and functions/malfunctions. It is possible to create and edit most of these objects in the editor.

Note that you can edit some general settings for the FMEA editor in the preferences menu:

Choose the width of the boxes representing the elements.
Enable / disable animations.
Show comments as a tool tip: If you activate this, every comment will be shown as an overlay tool tip while the mouse cursor hovers above an object in the editor.

If you double-click on an element, all the structure layers to its left disappear. Show them again by
clicking on the names of the elements that are shown in the left upper corner of the editor. Example:

You can show or hide the elements to an element´s right by clicking on the + or - sign:

The other objects that are associated with the elements (functions, malfunctions etc.) are shown
below each element.

You can collapse and expand the list of objects under an element by clicking on the triangle in front
of the name:

In the right upper corner of the view you find these filtering options:

Show/Hide functions
Show/Hide malfunctions
Show/Hide safety goals
Show/Hide requirements
Show/Hide tasks.