Failure Mode and Effects Analysis失效模式与影响分析
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is a structured risk-assessment method used to identify potential failure modes in a product or process, evaluate their effects, and prioritize actions based on severity, occurrence, and detection. In manufacturing documentation, it appears in design and process risk files, quality planning records, and corrective action reports, where design FMEA and process FMEA variants must be distinguished from general failure analysis.
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Where this term appears
Translators encounter FMEA in quality manuals, customer engineering documentation packages, and cross-functional risk review forms used in automotive and industrial contexts. The content often includes rating scales, failure descriptions, and action owner fields; inconsistent translation of severity, occurrence, and detection can misalign risk scores and make follow-up responsibilities unclear.
Translation checks
A frequent mistake is translating FMEA as “fault analysis” or “failure analysis,” which drops the evaluation of effects and the preventive ranking logic. Another error is using inconsistent ratings terminology, such as translating “occurrence” as “frequency” in one table and “probability” in another, making risk scores difficult to compare across documents.
Chinese document application
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in context · FMEA worksheet
- English source
- Link the failure mode to its effect and control.
- Chinese rendering to review
- 将失效模式与其影响及控制措施关联。
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Check the distinction in context
Failure mode, cause and effect are separate worksheet fields. Chinese text should preserve those relationships and any rating definitions supplied with the source. Do not recalculate a score or change a category while translating to make the worksheet appear consistent.
Check the returned Chinese file
Compare one Chinese FMEA row with the source legend. Keep failure mode, cause, effect, control and any rating fields in the same order, without recalculating or filling absent source entries during translation.
Prepare the connected files
Include the worksheet legend, rating definitions and approved terminology. Return conflicting source entries for the owner’s decision.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Check equipment names, units, safety instructions and interface labels against the source and approved references. Confirm any market-specific document requirements separately.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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