Functional Model

DFMEA

  • Focuses on the analysis and functional relationships of the product and how they come together to perform
  • Identifies potential risks and failure modes and causes in the design and functionality of product components
  • Focuses on the continuous improvement of the product design throughout its lifecycle
  • Provides insights to improve the products design, performance, and robustness

PFMEA

  • Focuses on the process steps involved in manufacturing the already designed product
  • Identifies potential risks and failure modes in the manufacturing process
  • Ensures efficiency, cost savings, and compliance with quality standards
  • Focuses on continuous improvement and optimization of the process
  • Provides insights to optimize the manufacturing process and enhance product quality

BUILT TO FUNCTION

Create & Maintain an Intuitive and Multidimensional Functional Model

  • Unlike spreadsheets, which are limited in representing complex relationships, APIS® IQ-Software automatically builds a functional model from individual connections defined when facilitating.

Foundation of Failure Prevention

  • The first step in identifying and preventing all potential failures of a product or process is to define it’s intended functions and their relationships.

Overcome Challenges of Manual Depiction

  • For instance, if we specify that Function A affects both C and D, the IQ-Software will show that Function A is linked to C and D simultaneously.

Structured Layers

7-Steps to a Value-add Analysis

  • The IQ-Software leverages the functional model to help move to the next step, failure analysis.

  • The structure editor allows you to organize the process defining data. This helps uncover where failures happen and be clear on what levels can cause those failures.

  • All data becomes linked. The software allows you to think of one topic at a time while it connects it to related topics. This results in a wholistic data set for your FMEA analysis.

7-Steps to a Value-add Analysis

  • Graphical workspace to define the functional decomposition of a system, device, or process.

  • By utilizing the Function-Net Editor, a detailed and multidimensional representation of functions, requirements, and (product/process) characteristics can be specified.

  • This gives a comprehensive functional view of all components and how they interact. This model is heavily leveraged to ensure an accurate and complete failure model!

Understand Meaningful Relationships

Visualize System or Process from Various Perspectives

  • Users can explore and visualize how each component contributes to the overall system’s performance by navigating a wholistic view of the entire system’s interconnected functions. ​

  • Unlike spreadsheets, see the big picture and all its intricate details simultaneously. Create a comprehensive understanding of your entire system. ​

  • By starting with a specific function and building outwards users can easily identify and visualize the relationships between people, machines, and devices, and understand how each of the individual parts interact with the complete system from all perspectives.

Function Net Editor

  • The IQ-Software offers a graphical workspace to define the functional decomposition of a system, device, or process. ​

  • By utilizing the Function-Net Editor, a detailed and multidimensional representation of functions, requirements, and (product/process) characteristics can be specified. This gives a comprehensive functional view of all components and how they interact. This model is heavily leveraged to ensure an accurate and complete failure model!