Patent ID: 7096082

Claim:
A control document template for developing and consolidating control documents associated with a new or revised product, the control document template comprising: (a) a computer-readable storage medium; and (b) a spreadsheet file stored in the computer-readable storage medium, the spreadsheet file comprising: (i) a scope-criteria-checklist page for receiving an input from a user of a list of parts of the product, a risk assessment for each of the parts, and an indication of whether each of the parts is to be included in a failure mode effects analysis; (ii) a design failure mode effects analysis page for specifying ways in which design of the product can contribute to failure of the product, the design failure mode effects analysis page comprising links to the scope-criteria-checklist page for automatic population of information from the scope-criteria-checklist page into the design failure mode effects analysis page; and (iii) a process failure mode effects analysis page for specifying ways in which a manufacturing process can contribute to failure of the product, the process failure mode effects analysis page comprising links to the scope-criteria-checklist page for automatic population of information from the scope-criteria-checklist page into the process failure mode effects analysis page.