You are currently in the MSR Form and have (by running your cursor over an info icon) been shown the following information.
The focus element is not present in a „Monitoring and System Response (MSR)“ structure type. This has implications on the AP Catalog currently being used.
By right-clicking the info icon, you will see the “Open web page (note)” which leads you to further information on this topic.
The above notification indicates to the IQ-user that the selected focus element of the MSR form is anchored as a failure in a structure that does not have the type “Monitoring and System Response (MSR)”. This influences the calculation of the AP value in the MSR form.
The AP value in the MSR form is determined with the help of AP catalogs. By default, there are two AP catalogs in the IQ-Software, namely the “AIAG/VDA Design/Process (2019)” catalog and the “AIAG/VDA MSR (2019)” catalog. Both catalogs can lead to different evaluations of the AP value (Action Priority) when inputting the same S, O (or F) and D (or M) values.
You can find the AP catalogs in the IQ-Software under “Administration | AP Catalogs”. Working directly in the MSR form, you can access the catalogs by right-clicking the AP cells.
Which catalog is used is determined by the IQ-user when determining the structure type of the FMEA. The AP catalogs are, as such, directly linked to structure types.
To determine the structure type in the IQ-Software, go to “Administration | Project Management | select project | Properties | Options”. In the following image you can see, next to the structure type „Monitoring and System Response (MSR)“, six further structure types to pick from. One of these must be selected.
If you select the “Monitoring and System Response (MSR)” structure type, you specify that the “AIAG/VDA MSR (2019)” AP catalog is used to determine the AP value in the MSR form. For all other structure types, the AP catalog “AIAG/VDA Design/Process (2019)” is used. The IQ-Software informs you about this when accessing the AP catalogs.
The following example uses the Structure Editor in conjunction with the Failure Graph to show you how the AP calculation value can change simply by varying the structure type while keeping all other parameters constant.
While a value of AP=M is determined for the structure type “System”, which was selected here as a representative of the other five structure types already mentioned above, a value of AP=H results for the structure type “Monitoring and System Response (MSR)”.
This difference is also evident in the MSR form. Based on the Failure Graph already shown above, the two MSR forms for the “System” structure type and for the “Monitoring and System Response (MSR)” structure type look as follows:
As can be seen in the penultimate figure, in the MSR form with the structure type “System”, an info icon at the focus element indicates that there is no structure of the type “Monitoring and System Response (MSR)” here. Therefore the possibility of a deviating AP value is indicated.
The two images below show, from the viewpoint of the AP catalogs, how determining certain values can lead to different AP results.
