Not an FMEA for the record,but real FMEA analysis —QSA Hub helps you get there.
Create AIAG-VDA-compliant DFMEA, PFMEA, and FMEA-MSR with ease using everything QSA Hub offers, and talk failure analysis through with your colleagues in the same place. QSA Hub connects teams and people around quality and safety, giving them an environment built for analysis with real depth.
- Action Priority, automatically — Enter S·O·D and Action Priority follows instantly, straight from the AIAG-VDA tables
- Every link in plain sight — Structure, function, and failure connected visually — nothing slips through
- Your own Excel format — Keep the format you already use and export in one click, with the layout intact
Free during beta
Safe, consistent, and structured by design
One tool for everyone involved in FMEA — from authoring to audit to oversight.
FMEA authors
"Now where's that Excel file from the last project…?" No more mindless copy-and-paste, over and over.
Pull up and reuse past data in a second with Foundation FMEAs and the library. Complex structure–function–failure relationships are diagrammed visually on a single screen, and the Action Priority (AP) headache is computed automatically to the standard. Step out of the Excel maze and focus on what counts — real design and process improvement.
Quality managers
"Why does the deadline version differ from the revised one?" Still juggling a dozen open Excel files to reconcile them?
Keep FMEAs perfectly consistent with shared collaboration and company-wide custom templates. From assigning owners to applying standard rating scales, everything is managed in one place — no more tangled versions or lost data. Reviews take half the time, and confidence in the data climbs.
Auditors & audit leads
"What's the cause of this failure mode?" Answer the auditor's sharpest question instantly, with confidence.
The system checks methodology compliance for you and automatically detects missing links between structure, function, and failure, catching gaps early. With a full, traceable change history and automatic revision control, put the exact data an auditor wants in front of them in seconds. When the data holds together, audit stress fades and passing becomes the natural outcome.
Quality and safety analysis is heavy, exacting work.
QSA Hub takes the weight off.
Excel FMEAs that buckle as the data piles up
Spreadsheets can't keep up with large projects and complex structures — they hit a wall, and they drift out of standard.
Documents that follow no shared standard
With no common template, every engineer works their own way — and as time passes, reconstructing the history becomes impossible.
Manual risk scoring that invites errors
Looking up S·O·D scores and Action Priority (AP) in the handbook tables by hand, every single time, slows analysis to a crawl and breeds human error.
Fragmented FMEA files and templates
DFMEA, PFMEA, and MSR analyses sit in separate Excel files, making it hard to keep a product's shared structure consistent.
"I know we did something like this before… so where's that file?"
Every new FMEA starts from a blank page. What are this part's failure modes, what effects do they lead to, what causes them — you dredge it all up from memory and type it in, one line at a time. You already worked through a nearly identical part months ago, but that Excel file is buried somewhere in an old project folder.
- You rewrite failure chains from scratch on every project — time drains away, and the failure modes that actually matter slip through the cracks.
- Valuable past data never gets shared — a finished analysis sits in some old project folder, with no way to search it or put it to use right now.
- Your expertise stays locked in Excel files on personal drives — when a teammate leaves or the org shifts, the same technical thinking gets repeated from zero.
Past analyses aren't disposable. They become powerful assets for your next project.
Bank it in one click
Save a finished FMEA to your library with a single right-click. The effect → failure mode → cause chain is broken out automatically, keeping the S·O·D scores and controls and actions intact.
Search past history by keyword, instantly
One part name or failure-symptom keyword unfolds the failure structures and action history you documented before. There's no reason to start from scratch anymore.
Find it in the library, drop it straight in
Pull a failure chain you like into the FMEA you're building — the effect, mode, and cause links plus their scores copy over, so all that's left is to tailor it to your product.
"This is the final version, right? Or the one the lead emailed yesterday?"
FMEA is meant to be a team effort, yet in practice one quality engineer ends up holding the Excel file alone. Review comments pour in over email and chat, and the file multiplies into 'FMEA_v3_final_REALLYfinal.xlsx.' Nobody's sure whose edits made it in, or which copy is current.
- Tangled merged cells don't just hurt readability — there's no history at all of who changed a risk score, when, or why.
- Passing files around by email spawns conflicting copies, and someone's hard-won overnight update gets silently overwritten and lost.
- Transcribing feedback scattered across emails and meeting notes by hand, you end up missing the design improvements that mattered most.
The days of editing separately and merging later are over. Work together in a single document.
Co-edit as a team, with presence
Several people work on the same FMEA. Avatars show who's looking where, and shared elements are held by a soft lock so edits don't overwrite one another.
Comments right on the node, in context
Leave a comment in place on any element — structure, function, failure, or risk — @mention the right person, and discuss it in a thread. Feedback stops scattering across inboxes.
A cure for 'final_final_v2.xlsx'
Commit the document at the moments that matter and roll back to any of them whenever you need. The state just before a rollback is kept automatically as a safety copy.
Task assignment & notifications
Pin a task to an element, assign it to an owner, and track it through requested → accepted → done. Mentions and assignments arrive as in-app notifications, and reviewers without edit access can still take part through comments.
"You didn't follow the methodology." No one should have to walk out of an audit and start over because of that one sentence.
Have you ever scrambled to patch documents at the last minute, pushed by a packed schedule, right before an audit? When the auditor asks pointed questions — 'the link between function and failure is missing,' 'what changed in this revision?' — you're left sweating over scattered files. Every gap where the methodology slipped surfaces as a 'nonconformity' in the audit room.
- Documents that should be updated at every design or 4M change get crammed in just before the audit, and no one knows exactly what changed between revisions.
- One unlinked element, one missing score, one overdue action — each comes back as a nonconformity.
- When the auditor asks 'when and why did this change?', you answer from scattered files and memory.
Before the audit, the system reviews it first and flags it for you.
Automatic readiness check
The system checks document completeness against the AIAG-VDA 7-step methodology. It flags unlinked elements, missing scores, overdue actions, and unaddressed high risks — click any finding to jump straight to the spot.
A complete change history
Every change — who, when, what — is recorded automatically. Filter by revision (Rev) span, date, element, or editor to answer an auditor's question on the spot.
Revision milestones & Excel
Confirm a revision, and every change since is summarized automatically and exported alongside your Excel as a standard Revision History sheet.
Everything you need, from the start of an FMEA to the finish.
AIAG-VDA compliance, structured visual authoring, custom templates, version control — everything authoring takes.
AIAG-VDA FMEA methodology
Follows the AIAG-VDA standard, faithfully.
- DFMEA · PFMEA — Author Design FMEAs and Process FMEAs to the AIAG-VDA FMEA Handbook.
- FMEA-MSR — Author the supplemental FMEA for Monitoring and System Response (FMEA-MSR) for ISO 26262 needs.
- Automatic Action Priority (AP) — Enter Severity, Occurrence, and Detection (S·O·D) and Action Priority is computed instantly per the AIAG-VDA tables — including FMEA-MSR (S/F/M) and re-evaluation after a design change.
- Templates — DFMEA, PFMEA, and FMEA-MSR templates included out of the box.
Structured, visual FMEA authoring
A spreadsheet can't show the picture. Author a visual document on a dedicated canvas.
- Step 1 — Define the full structure — Set the scope of what you're analyzing, clearly, on a single screen before you begin.
- Steps 2–4 — Connect cause and effect — Link structure, function, and failure visually on the canvas, and highlight a single complex failure chain to stay immersed in the analysis.
- Steps 5–6 — Diagnose risk and optimize — See the risk of a selected failure chain immediately, then plan and edit the improvement actions.
- Step 7 — Standard-format export — Export all of your analysis data cleanly into the AIAG-VDA standardized Excel format.
Custom templates
Exports in your own company's format.
- Build your own org or personal Excel templates and apply them to exports.
Document version control
The reassurance of being able to roll back, anytime.
- Keep an authoring history in per-document versions, and roll back to a specific version whenever you need to.
From a blank canvas to a standards-compliant FMEA, in three steps.
Set up a secure workspace
Spin up an analysis environment that's safely isolated, project by project.
Build on a visual canvas
Lay out failure chains that follow the AIAG-VDA structure, intuitively, on a visual canvas.
Automatic scoring, one-click export
Get the Action Priority (AP) the instant you enter S·O·D, then export straight to a standardized or company-custom Excel format.
Roadmap.
A smarter QSA Hub tomorrow (features in the works)
AI-suggested failure drafts
An AI trained on past data and standard documents proposes candidate analysis entries, so the blank-page problem disappears.
AI contradiction detection
Surfaces semantic duplication and content contradictions across multiple analyses.
Why teams choose QSA Hub.
A real FMEA tool — not Notion, not Excel
General-purpose document tools can't hold the complex cause-and-effect that FMEA demands. QSA Hub is engineered precisely, and only, for structuring FMEAs.
Built to follow the standard, rigorously, from day one
Action Priority (AP) computation and the MSR analysis mechanism follow the AIAG-VDA Handbook, so your analysis holds up under audit.
For every engineer who authors FMEAs
Hardware, software, process, quality, and safety engineers all work in the same structuring tool — DFMEA, PFMEA, and MSR included.
Permission-controlled access, authorized members only
Project- and document-level access permissions mean only authorized members can view or edit an FMEA.
Time to leave the Excel grind behind and meet your quality standard in full
Create a free account now and start your first, stress-free FMEA. Free during beta.