FMEA is a widely used technique to assess or to improve reliability of products at early stage of design and development. In order to implement FMEA effectively, it is important to utilize knowledge or technical know-hows. However, that is very difficult. In fact, if information on the failure modes is enough, it is important to consider a counterplan to eliminate critical failure modes. If engineers do not have such information, however, it is more important to know what failure modes of the component under consideration would undergo. This means that the purposes of performing FMEA varies according to the situation. Therefore, we need different kinds of FMEA charts to meet those purposes. This paper proposes two FMEA charts: one is suitable for detecting potential failure modes and the other is for product improvements.