Templates
Learn how to use the template catalog and obtain more templates.
The Qualica application provides basic functionality to support designing, calculating and reporting multi-dimensional data objects. It consists of a set of basic object and worksheet types which can be combined to complex data structures. The template catalog makes use of these basic functions to implement software support for a great number of preventive and reactive quality methods, e.g. QFD, FMEA etc.
Starting a new project
After starting Qualica, the start screen shows a collection of method templates. Click on an icon to start a new project using one of those methods.

The templates on this start screen have been selected to handle different tasks:
First Row: Reactive Methods
- Root Cause Analysis: Start a root cause analysis project. You may also use this template to plan and prepare a design of experiments for process or system optimization.
- Causal Loop Analysis: Start a causal loop analysis project. Calls loop analysis documents relationships between system elements, helping to generate an in depth understanding of a system under study or under design.
- Fault Tree Analysis: Start a fault tree analysis project. Fault tree analysis is used to identify events or combinations of events leading to a specific fault. This specific fault is the root of the tree. Quantitative fault tree analysis can be used to determine the probability of the fault occurring based on probabilities of events.
- Process Mapping: Document process flow, optionally adding a characteristics matrix and a control plan. Add process parameters, inputs and outputs per process step for root cause analysis or process optimization. Structure can be added in form of process functions as defined by the AIAG/VDA FMEA Handbook, for example using 4M or 6M (or “4MHE”: Machine, Material, Method, Measurement, Human, Environment) per process step.
Second Row: Preventive Methods
- Requirements Analysis: Collect and cluster voice of customer (VOC) requirements, prioritize using Analytical Hierarchy Process pairwise comparison, define CTQs and summarize in a House of Quality.
- Conceptual Design: Apply conceptual design methodology: identify functions, identify and combine solutions in using a Morphological Box. Then define requirements and score solutions against them in a Pugh matrix.
- Solution Selection: Score solutions or options against a list of requirements. Define functional requirements (critical-to-quality requirements, CTQs), then evaluate solutions in a Pugh matrix.
- Robust Design: Apply robust design: Identify noise factors using a P-Diagram, Identify control factors and define actions necessary to optimize robustness (DFMEA prevention controls). Cross check noise factors versus the design verification plan (DFMEA detection controls).
Third Row: Projects
- Quality Function Deployment: Use Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to track how key, new, unique, and difficult customer requirements are being addressed and verified. You can choose between the 3 stage approach and the 4 stage approach.
- Project Management: Collection of common project management tools
- Strategy: Collection of common strategy development tools.
- Project Framework: Use a project framework to organize individual tools and methods.You can choose between DMAIC / Process, DMAIC / Quality, DMADV, and IDOV
Tip
Not all available templates are installed with the software. More templates and updates are available online. In order to update the template catalog, click on the help icon (?) at the right side of the application's caption bar, then choose 'Check for Updates...'.
Extending Projects
Once you have started a new project using the template catalog, you can add new methods to your project using the template catalog.

Activate the Insert ribbon. The first command at the left is Add Tool. Click here and you can see the template catalog screen. Click on the icon of a method you want to add to your project.
Note
Some templates use the current selection to connect the newly inserted component to the existing data. E.g. if you select an item in a VOC tree and insert the AHP component, the new AHP will refer to the VOC tree. Otherwise if you select an item in a VOB tree, the inserted component will belong to that tree. It is possible to insert the same method template multiple times for different linking targets.
The Templates
The template catalog is organized in packages. Each package can contain one or more method templates. Packages can be installed, updated and removed.
The packages are:
Start
This package contains all the templates suitable to begin a new project. All templates contain a set of methods useful to fulfill specific tasks.
Project Management
Project Charter, SIPOC, RACI / RASIC, GANTT, ...
VOC Prio
This Package contains various methods to prioritize items.
QFD
QFD 1, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, VOC Benchmarking, ...
Concept Selection
Pugh Matrix (VOC), FAST, System Analysis, Morphological Box, ...
Value Analysis
Value Analysis
FMEA & FTA
DRBFM, BeginOutput, browseFileName, createfolder, ...
Robust Design
P-Diagram, Component Design Matrix, Design Structure Matrix, Sigma Scorcard, ...
Process Management
QFD / Process Matrix, Sensitivity Analysis (Process), Characteristics Scorecard, Process Diagram, ...
Hoshin Kanri (Strategy)
Hoshin X-Matrix
More Methods
Extras
Design FMEA, Process FMEA