Short product lifecycles and a high variety of products force industrial manufacturing processes to change frequently. Due to the manual approach of many quality analysis techniques, they can significantly slow down adaption processes of production systems or make production unprofitable. Therefore, automating them can be a key technology for keeping pace with market demand of the future. The methodology presented here aims at a meta-model supporting automation for PFMEA. The method differentiates product requirements, production steps and quality measures in such a way, that complex quality requirements can be addressed in any instance of a factory using a common meta-modeling language.

翻译：短期产品生命周期和多种产品迫使工业制造过程经常改变,由于许多质量分析技术的人工方法,它们可以大大减缓生产系统的适应过程,或使生产变得无利可图,因此,这些生产系统自动化可能是跟上未来市场需求的关键技术,此处介绍的方法旨在建立一个支持FMEA自动化的元模型,这种方法以这种方式区分产品要求、生产步骤和质量措施,在工厂使用通用的元模型语言的任何情况下,都可以处理复杂的质量要求。