Third Quarter of 2019

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: September 27, 2019

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve usability, the risk assessment window has been modified as follows:
  • The size and positioning of the Basis of Assessment box have been adjusted.
  • The expand feature has been added to the Basis of Assessment box.
US345815
You can now restrict modifying an FMEA Analysis and its child record to team members only. To facilitate this enhancement, the RCM FMEA Preferences tab has been added to the RCM FMEA Admin page.US340645
You can now modify the Recommendation at all the levels in the analysis hierarchy.US313842
In the FMEA Overview page, the Create New Analysis and Create New Template buttons have been renamed New Analysis and New Template, respectively.US306105
Previously, in the FMEA Recommendation report, the Interval and Resource columns were not translated. This issue has been resolved. Now, the values selected for Interval Units will always be translated. The values of Recommended Resource will be translated only if they are selected from the drop-down list box. If you enter a value that is not in the drop-down list box of Recommended Resource, it will not be translated.US301684
To enhance performance and scalability, the apply template operation has been converted to a job.US293368
Table 2. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, the Driving Risk Category for Mitigated Risk Assessments was determined by the Unmitigated Risk Assessment. This issue has been resolved.DE115096
Previously, in Internet Explorer, if the Equipment or Functional Location datasheets took a long time to load, the risk summary did not appear in the Recommendation window. This issue has been resolved.DE110148
Previously, when you added a failure mode for an equipment or functional location, the Related Asset Type field was not populated with the correct Taxonomy Type. This issue has been resolved.DE109409
Previously, the count of Recommended Actions that appeared in the Recommended Actions pane was incorrect. This issue has been resolved.DE108791
Previously, in the FMEA Overview page, if you selected the Help button when you attempted to create a template, the Help documentation did not appear. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Help button does not appear when you attempt to create a template.DE108018
Previously, you could delete Recommendations that were not at the Failure Effect level. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can delete only the Recommendations that are at the Failure Effect level.DE104267
Previously, while using the FMEA data loaders, the logs sometimes did not capture the data that was successfully loaded. This issue has been resolved.DE104003
Previously, regardless of your culture settings, the values in the State column were displayed in English. This issue has been resolved. Now, the values in the State column are displayed in the language that is based on your culture settings.DE99458
Previously, the FMEA Recommendations report contained ambiguous text for undefined values. This issue has been resolved. Now, undefined values in the report are represented by zeros.DE93935
Previously, you could promote a non-global FMEA asset template to an ASM template. This issue has been resolved. Now, only global FMEA asset templates can be promoted to ASM templates.DE88303
Previously, when you created an Analysis from a template, the template builder did not retain the selected assets. This issue has been resolved.DE88189
Previously, in the Recommended Actions pane, you could select the Linked Recommended Actions tab before saving a new recommended action. This issue has been resolved.DE85488
Previously, if you searched for the FMEA template record in the hierarchy, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can search for a child node of the selected parent record from the hierarchy. DE79677

Release Date: September 6, 2019

Table 3. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you attempted to promote a Recommendation that was created using the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) data loader, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE116212
Previously, you could not consolidate the Recommendations that were created using the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) data loader. This issue has been resolved.DE116023