Search for:
FMEA objects without reference language name (name is equivalent to “???”)
Explanation:
FMEA objects will be searched for, the type of which is named “???” in the reference language.
Note:
- Types are IQ objects that are recorded in catalogs and carry information that is the same for all instances of the type.
- Instances of IQ objects are created when IQ objects are selected from the catalogs and reused elsewhere in the IQ-Software.
Example:
Abbreviations:
- The sample structure consists of three structure elements with different IQ objects. Some available IQ object types have been named “???” because the Quality Rule (QR) searches for instances of IQ object types with exactly that name.
- The discussed QR can only find instances of object types with the name “???” and not the types themselves. That becomes clear when you look at the input collector with catalog for failures for the failure anchored at function Fn3 in our sample structure:
- In the “Catalog” section, all failure types are listed that are available in the fme file in projects and/or structures or have been defined once and deleted later in other editors or the catalog. As our sample fme file contains only one project with structure, the failure types in the catalog with an instance count differing from 0 (see { }) are available and used in the example structure.
- As the QR cannot be applied to the catalog of the input collector, the IQ object types without instances cannot be detected. The editors, in which you can use the QR, shown only instances of types and not the types themselves.
- In our example, the QR is applied in the Structure Editor, which means, however, that in this case instances of the IQ element types “Structure” and “Project” with the name “???” will not be found in the QR search run. Instances of that kind can only be found using the QR when you apply the QR in the IQ Explorer.
- Thus, the failure types ???{0}, F1{0}, and F3{0} listed in the catalog do not occur in the sample structure, which is why they cannot be detected and marked when applying the QR in the Structure Editor. For our example, the following search result is obtained:
Search result:
There are altogether three IQ object types with the name “???” that have one instance, namely a structure element type, a failure type and a preventive action type. In addition, there is a fourth IQ object type with the name “???”, which, however, has two instances, both of which are therefore failure occurrences of the same type.
Since, as explained at the beginning, only instances of object types are detected by the QR, a total of five IQ object instances is detected which have the name “???” and meet the QR criteria.