FMEA is a collaborative, cross-functional approach that brings together many different engineering teams from design, production, and quality control to identify and address potential failure modes before they impact product performance.
This comprehensive analysis helps ensure that products meet safety standards and regulatory requirements while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Whether refining a product’s design or optimising manufacturing processes, FMEA enables teams to take proactive steps to reduce the likelihood of failures, ensuring both operational reliability and customer satisfaction. By applying FMEA at various stages of the product lifecycle, organisations can strengthen their products, maintain compliance, and gain valuable insights that drive future innovation.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how dedicated FMEA software can save time and increase the effectiveness of your FMEA process, while still providing the simplicity and ease of access offered by spreadsheets in the cloud.
ReliaSoft is HBK’s suite of reliability engineering software, designed to help teams apply FMEA in a more structured, scalable, and data-driven way. Moving beyond spreadsheets and disconnected tools, ReliaSoft enables engineers to centralise FMEA data, standardise processes, and collaborate across teams. With capabilities that support risk identification, analysis, and continuous improvement, it helps organisations turn FMEA from a one-off exercise into an integrated part of the product development lifecycle. Different ReliaSoft applications support different parts of this workflow, from collaborative FMEA management and design risk analysis through to maintenance planning and field failure reporting.
While spreadsheets are commonly used for FMEA, they can quickly become difficult to manage as complexity grows. Dedicated FMEA software like ReliaSoft improves consistency, traceability, and collaboration by centralising data, enabling standard templates, and providing visibility into risk across projects.
ReliaSoft software supports a wide range of FMEA approaches, including DFMEA, PFMEA and FMECA. It can support standards-based workflows, including AIAG & VDA-style approaches, while enabling teams to customise processes and maintain consistency across projects.
Yes. ReliaSoft enables teams to leverage knowledge from previous FMEAs, including failure modes and mitigation strategies. AI-assisted features can help surface relevant insights, supporting faster risk identification and more consistent analysis across programmes.
ReliaSoft is designed to scale from small teams to global engineering organisations. With cloud-based access, user management, and centralised data, it supports collaboration across locations while maintaining control over processes, permissions, and data integrity.
ReliaSoft provides dashboards and visualisation tools that make it easier to identify high-risk failure modes and track mitigation actions. By presenting risk data clearly, it helps teams focus on the most critical issues and monitor how risk levels change as designs evolve.
FMEA can be applied across different stages of engineering and operations. DFMEA helps teams identify design-related risks, PFMEA focuses on risks within manufacturing or production processes, and FMECA extends the analysis by adding criticality assessment. ReliaSoft supports these approaches within a structured environment, helping teams standardise analysis, reuse knowledge, and maintain traceability across projects.
This will bring together HBM, Brüel & Kjær, nCode, ReliaSoft, MicroStrain and Discom brands, helping you innovate faster for a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.
