Create a New Degradation Mechanism Evaluation (DME) Family

Steps

In the left pane, navigate to and select Criticality Degradation Mech Evaluation.

The Criticality Degradation Mech Evaluation workspace appears.

In the left pane, select .

A new Criticality Degradation Mech Evaluation datasheet appears, displaying the Information section.

Enter values in the available fields, and then select .

Note: Fields selected to spread to Subfamilies from the parent RBI Degradation Mechanism Evaluation and the Criticality Degradation Mech Evaluation families will automatically populate in the new family.

The new DME family is created, displaying the Information section in the workspace.

In the workspace, select the Datasheets tab.

The Datasheets section appears.

Select Manage Datasheets.

A message appears, indicating that the new DME family does not contain any datasheets, and asking you create one.

Select OK.

The Datasheet Builder page appears.

In the upper-right corner of the page, select , and then select Custom Datasheet.

The Create New Datasheet window appears.

On the Create New Datasheet window, enter unique values in the Caption, Default ID, and Description boxes, and then select OK.

Note: If you want the datasheet to be the default datasheet for this family, select the Default check box.

The datasheet is created.

In the upper-right corner of the workspace, select .

The new section tab appears on the datasheet.

On the new section tab, enter a name for the tab, and then select .

A table appears in the workspace.

In the table, enter a unique name in the Caption Input field

Tip: We recommend that you add both the Custom Calculation Policies Used and the Custom Calculation Used fields to your datasheet. This will indicate which policies were fired during calculation as well as indicate whether or not a custom calculation was used.

Note: You can use the different features of the Table Layout to customize your datasheet.

Using the drag-and-drop method, add fields from the Available Items pane to the corresponding cell in the Column Caption column.

In the upper-right corner of the page, select Save.

On the Family Management page, in the left pane, select Relationship, and then select Has RBI Degradation Mechanism Evaluation.

The Relationship: Has RBI Degradation Mechanism Evaluation workspace appears, displaying the Information section.

Select the Relationship Definition tab.

The Relationship Definition section appears.

In the upper-right corner of the section, select .

The Manage Relationship Definition window appears.

On the Manage Relationship Definition window:

In the Predecessor field, select RBI Criticality Analysis.
In the Successor field, select the new DME that you created in step 4.
Select One to Many.

Select Add.

The new Relationship Definition is added to the Has RBI Degradation Mechanism Evaluation Relationship Family, and it appears in the Relationship Definition section.

Select .

The new Degradation Mechanism Evaluation family is created.

What's Next?