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FMEA Lite help guide
Use this guide to build a practical process FMEA, leverage AI assistance, choose your scoring mode, and prioritize your highest risks.
Start FMEA LiteWhat this tool does
FMEA Lite helps teams document failure modes, rate risk with Severity, Occurrence, and Detection, apply reusable templates or AI-generated starting points, split prevention and detection controls, track action status, and generate PDF reports with a risk matrix heat map.
1 Step 1: Set up the project
Start from a blank FMEA, apply a reusable template, describe your process and let AI generate a custom template, or import rows from a CSV/TSV file. Then confirm the title, type, product or process, team, and scoring mode (Classical RPN or Action Priority).
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2 Step 2: Add and refine FMEA rows
Add each process step, failure mode, failure effect, failure cause, prevention controls, detection controls, and initial S/O/D ratings. Use the AI row suggestion to describe a process step and get failure modes generated automatically. Use search, grouping, sorting, duplicate, and move actions to manage larger FMEAs.
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3 Step 3: Review actions and status
Add recommended actions, owners, due dates, and revised S/O/D ratings after action. Track each row's status (Open, In Progress, Completed, Verified). The AI completeness check highlights rows that are missing actions or have incomplete information.
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4 Step 4: Generate the report
Review the risk summary, action status breakdown, and risk matrix heat map. Use the AI QC-Coach with persona chips to get tailored analysis (audit review, risk reduction, customer brief, and more). Download the PDF report, export to enhanced CSV, or share via WhatsApp.
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Advanced features
These features go beyond basic FMEA to support AIAG/VDA workflows, AI-assisted analysis, and structured action tracking.
Action Priority (AP) scoring
Switch from Classical RPN to AIAG/VDA Action Priority mode in Setup. Rows display H/M/L priority badges based on Severity, Occurrence, and Detection combinations instead of a single RPN number.
Prevention and Detection controls
Split controls into separate Prevention and Detection fields, as recommended by AIAG/VDA. Both fields appear in the row editor, the PDF report, and the CSV export.
AI-powered features
AI template generation creates a custom FMEA from a process description. AI row suggestions auto-generate failure modes. AI completeness check validates your FMEA. AI QC-Coach with persona chips provides tailored analysis on the report page.
CSV/TSV import
Upload a CSV or TSV file to import rows from Excel or another FMEA tool. The importer auto-detects delimiters and maps column headers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Action status tracking
Track each row through Open, In Progress, Completed, and Verified stages. The report page shows a status summary and highlights overdue actions.
Risk matrix heat map
The report page and PDF include a Severity vs. Occurrence heat map that plots each row, making it easy to see risk concentration at a glance.
Tips
- Keep failure modes specific and observable.
- Use templates or AI generation to accelerate common scenarios, then tailor the rows to your operation.
- Capture revised ratings only after you define a realistic action with an owner and due date.
- Run the AI completeness check before generating the report to catch gaps early.
- Try Action Priority mode if your organization follows AIAG/VDA 1st edition -- it replaces the single RPN number with H/M/L priority levels.