Adding Causes and Effects

You perform this procedure to add causes or effects from the Causes tab or Effects card respectively.

Context

Using this procedure, you can add causes and effects that can be used in failure modes.

Procedure

  1. To add causes, perform the following tasks:
    1. Choose Start of the navigation pathCauses Next navigation step New CauseEnd of the navigation path.
    2. Enter short and long descriptions, and level of failure mode in the Create Cause dialog box.
    3. Choose OK.
  2. To add effects, perform the following tasks:
    1. Choose Start of the navigation pathEffects Next navigation step New EffectEnd of the navigation path.
    2. Enter short and long descriptions in the Create Effect dialog box.
    3. Choose OK.