About the FMEA Data Structure

Within the FMEA module, families are used to represent the various components of an FMEA Analysis. GE Digital APM leverages its fundamental entity and relationship family infrastructure to store data related to an FMEA Analysis.

Each FMEA Analysis is represented at the root level by an RCM FMEA Analysis family record. FMEA Analyses use the same root analysis family, and they are distinguished from RCM Analyses via the Analysis Type field in the RCM FMEA Analysis record. The Analysis Type can be either RCM or FMEA. For an RCM FMEA Analysis that will be used for an FMEA Analysis, the Analysis Type is FMEA.

Note: Because both RCM and FMEA Analysis records belong to the same family, a query on the RCM FMEA Analysis family will return results that include all analyses of any type. To limit your results to include only one analysis type, you must include the Analysis Type field in your query and define criteria to filter on either RCM or FMEA.

For an FMEA Analysis (a record in which the Analysis Type is FMEA), the RCM FMEA Analysis record can be linked to RCM FMEA Asset records through the Has RCM FMEA Asset relationship. RCM FMEA Asset records can, in turn, be linked to RCM FMEA Failure Mode records through the Has RCM FMEA Failure Mode relationship, and so on, for all components of the analysis. Together, the root RCM FMEA Analysis record and all the records that are linked to it, either directly or indirectly, make up the FMEA Analysis.