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Mitigate risks early with customisable, standard-compliant DFMEA software for innovative design
Our DFMEA software empowers engineers to identify and address design risks early on using standards-based methods, real-time collaboration, and built-in knowledge reuse, thereby preventing failures and enhancing product reliability across various industries.
Relyence DFMEA provides a powerful, customisable platform for creating and managing Design FMEAs. Supporting major standards like SAE J1739, AIAG & VDA, and IEC 60812—or your own tailored methods—Relyence DFMEA ensures consistency and flexibility across industries. Designed to identify and mitigate potential failures during the design phase, Relyence DFMEA empowers teams to enhance reliability before manufacturing begins.
Innovative features include Knowledge Banks™ for reusing and automating lessons learned, FMEA Data Autoflow™ for seamless data handling, and FMEA SmartSuggest™ for capturing data across your product hierarchy. With Failure Direct Connect™ for FMEA-FRACAS integration, shared Action Libraries, and intuitive workflows with built-in approvals and notifications, Relyence DFMEA drives collaboration and efficiency. Dashboards offer quick insights, while its browser-based, mobile-friendly design ensures global accessibility for teams everywhere
What our customers say...
“Relyence DFMEA has streamlined our design risk analysis process. We’ve reduced duplication, improved collaboration, and gained confidence in our compliance.”
Smarter design risk analysis — streamlined, standardised, and seamlessly connected.
Relyence DFMEA software brings structure and consistency to design risk analysis. It enables engineers to identify, prioritise, and mitigate risks early in development, saving time and reducing costly redesigns. Built for today’s collaborative teams, it supports workflows, approvals, and notifications so stakeholders remain aligned at every stage. With reusable Knowledge Banks and SmartSuggest, your team accelerates analysis while maintaining consistency across projects. Real-time dashboards and reporting ensure you stay ahead of potential issues. Fully browser-based, Relyence DFMEA provides complete risk management visibility across the product lifecycle.
Relyence DFMEA key features
In addition to platform-wide capabilities, each Relyence module offers unique features developed for its specific analysis method. These specialist tools ensure engineers have the right functionality at the right time, helping achieve reliable, audit-ready results with less effort.
Relyence DFMEA offers users the following benefits...
Failure Direct Connect
Relyence Failure Direct Connect: Bridging FRACAS and FMEA for Continuous Improvement
Relyence Failure Direct Connect seamlessly integrates your DFMEAs, PFMEAs & FMECAs with your FRACAS data, providing valuable insights into the failure mechanism. By linking real-world failure data directly to your FMEA, Relyence closes the loop between your warranty returns and future design iterations.
One standout feature is the ability for users to suggest FMEA updates directly from FRACAS entries. This ensures that new issues are promptly incorporated into your FMEA, keeping your analysis current and comprehensive. The result? Enhanced collaboration, faster response times, and a powerful feedback loop that drives ongoing product reliability improvements.
Custom Failure Mode Libraries
Custom FMEA Mode Library: Standardised, Efficient, and Tailored for Your Needs
The Custom FMEA Mode Library introduces a powerful way to streamline your piece-part DFMEA and FMECA processes. By creating a centralised repository of predefined failure modes and associated percentages for each part type, this feature ensures standardisation and consistency across your entire organisation.
Engineers no longer need to start from scratch for every analysis. Instead, they can leverage a comprehensive, predefined set of failure modes, accelerating the FMECA process and reducing the risk of missing critical issues.
The integration with Relyence Reliability Prediction also allows for a quick startup, pulling in relevant data when importing a Bill of Materials (BOM).
AIAG & VDA FMEA Template Support
For teams following specific industry standards, such as AIAG & VDA for automotive, Relyence offers updated templates and reports aligned with these guidelines, simplifying compliance.
Customisable Workflow & Approvals
Relyence FMEA and FRACAS empower you to take full control of your processes with customisable Workflows, Approvals, and Notifications. Designed to manage every step from start to finish, our intuitive Workflow Editor lets you tailor processes to your team structure and specific requirements. Configure everything with ease—from workflow steps and approval settings to automated notification messages and schedules.
Keep your team aligned and informed with a system that ensures seamless collaboration and accountability. Notifications prompt action at key stages, while approval mechanisms ensure compliance and precision. With Relyence, your workflows are as agile and efficient as your projects demand, giving you the flexibility to adapt and thrive in any industry.
Knowledge Banks
Control Your FMEAs with Relyence Knowledge Banks
Relyence Knowledge Banks streamline your FMEA process by providing a centralised repository for all your approved FMEA data, failure modes, effects, causes, and corrective actions. Engineers can search this data to quickly access proven solutions, saving time and ensuring consistency across projects.
The push feature allows you to effortlessly update your analyses with the latest information, keeping your analyses aligned and compliant. Plus, with built-in usage tracking, you gain visibility into how often and where your Knowledge Banks data is being applied, helping to identify best practices and areas for improvement. It’s a smarter, more efficient way to drive your risk analysis.
Relyence FMEA SmartSuggest
The Relyence SmartSuggest feature allows users to select from relevant data previously populated, i.e.,
- SmartSuggest automates the process by which failure causes at higher levels are identified as Failure Modes at the next lower level. It connects the lower-level Failure Mode to its related higher-level Cause. The Severity of the lower-level Mode is automatically set to match the Severity of the parent Failure Mode associated with the higher-level Cause.
- Automate failure Modes at higher levels, becoming Effects at the next lower level. The lower-level Failure Effect is then connected to the higher-level Failure Mode. The Effect Severity for the lower-level Effect is automatically set to the maximum value from the Failure Mode Severity from the higher-level Failure Mode and any associated Failure Effects.
Relyence DFMEA Core Features
As part of the fully integrated Relyence platform, the DFMEA module benefits from a wide range of shared features. These cross-module capabilities allow engineers to save time, avoid duplication, and ensure analyses remain accurate and consistent across projects. Many of the features most valued by our customers are built-in here — visit the features section for the full breakdown.
Analysis Tree
The Analysis Tree, positioned between the Relyence Sidebar and main analysis area, provides a clear, hierarchical breakdown of your system, product, or process. While optional, it’s highly recommended for organising your analysis effectively.
As you select items in the Analysis Tree, the data displays the relevant filtered information, keeping your focus on the specific subsystem or section you’re working on. This intuitive filtering helps streamline data management across your Relyence modules, including FMEA, FRACAS, Reliability Prediction, RCM, and Maintainability Prediction.
Audit Trail
Relyence’s Audit Trail feature tracks all modifications to your data, including additions, edits, and deletions, along with who made the changes and when.
In the example shown, the Audit Trail for a Design FMEA shows detailed records of changes made to failure cause data—listing each update, who made it, previous values, and timestamps in descending order. For a comprehensive view, you can also export a full Audit Report, filtering by date and module for concise tracking.
Customisable Dashboards & Drill‑down Reporting
Relyence Dashboards provide a comprehensive, customisable overview of your product or system by gathering and organising key data. Users can create unlimited, personalised Dashboards based on set permissions.Using the Dashboard Editor, add widgets such as charts, tables, and graphs for high-level visual insights—many with drill-down features that lead directly to detailed analysis files, highlighting specific data for in-depth review.
Our DFMEA module shares data with the following Relyence products
Relyence DFMEA Integrations
RCM
Relyence RCM software helps you move from reactive fixes to proactive, data-driven maintenance strategies. With structured decision diagrams, analysing the outcomes of potential failure modes identified in Relyence FMEA. Seamlessly integrated with FMEA, Relyence RCM ensures your maintenance decisions are consistent, collaborative, and defensible—supporting reliability and safety across industries.
PFMEA
Relyence PFMEA software streamlines process risk analysis with integrated Process Flow Diagrams and Control Plans that always stay in sync. With Knowledge Banks, SmartSuggest, dashboards, and workflows, your team can collaborate efficiently and maintain full traceability. Part of the Relyence FMEA suite, it connects seamlessly with DFMEA, FTA, and FRACAS for end-to-end reliability management.
FRACAS
Relyence FRACAS software accelerates your reliability process with no-code customisations, allowing you to tailor failure reporting and corrective actions without IT support. It stands out by supporting industry standards such as 8D, DMAIC, and PDCA, as well as your own templates, and seamlessly connects with FMEA, Prediction, and Weibull tools to provide a single, unified reliability workflow.
Reliability Prediction
Relyence Reliability Prediction software makes it simple to calculate MTBF, model component reliability, and meet industry standards. With built-in part libraries, stress-based calculations, and integration across FMEAs, FRACAS, RBD, and Weibull, it turns raw data into actionable insights. Fully web-based, it’s designed for teams who need speed, accuracy, and collaboration in reliability analysis.FTA
Transform risk management with Relyence Fault Tree Analysis Software—your essential visual tool for reliability and safety. Build fault trees with a simple diagram editor, reuse events and trees through libraries, and migrate from Excel with ease. With built-in collaboration, reporting, and integrations to FMEA and FRACAS, Relyence FTA delivers a connected approach to managing reliability across your organisation.
Relyence DFMEA Overview
Relyence DFMEA software is a powerful tool designed to help design engineers systematically identify and address potential failure modes before they impact product performance or safety. Supporting standards such as AIAG & VDA, it provides a structured approach for evaluating severity, occurrence, and detection, helping you calculate and manage risk metrics with confidence.
The platform’s intuitive interface and specialist features reduce duplication and ensure consistency. Knowledge Banks store reusable functions, failure modes, effects, causes, and recommended actions, while SmartSuggest accelerates entry by linking to relevant content from previous data entries.
Collaboration is seamless thanks to integrated workflows, approvals, and notifications, ensuring teams can work effectively whether in the office or remotely. Audit Trail and Revisions track every change for complete compliance and traceability. Configurable Dashboards give you visibility across projects, enabling proactive decision-making.
Whether you are migrating from Excel or enhancing your established processes, Relyence DFMEA software combines ease of use with enterprise-level governance—helping you reduce risk, improve quality, and drive product reliability in sectors such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical devices, and rail.
Relyence DFMEA Methodology
Relyence DFMEA software is built on the principles of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), a proven methodology for identifying and mitigating risks in the design phase of product development. The software aligns with international standards, including AIAG & VDA, ISO 9001, and IATF 16949, ensuring that your processes are compliant and consistent with best practices. By systematically analysing potential failure modes, their causes, and effects, the software helps engineers prioritise risks based on severity, occurrence, and detection, enabling focused and effective mitigation strategies. Relyence DFMEA’s intuitive interface and powerful analytical tools make it easy to implement these methodologies, allowing for continuous improvement and innovation in product design.
Relyence supports the AIAG & VDA standard, which provides a clear framework for conducting DFMEA, ensuring consistency across industries. Relyence DFMEA software embeds this methodology directly into your workflow, guiding you step-by-step while reducing manual effort. The analysis tree links design analyses with related process and control activities, keeping your risk management data aligned and always up to date.
By using DFMEA effectively, organisations can prevent costly late-stage design changes, improve compliance, and develop more robust and reliable products.
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