Failure analysis

Failure data enables you to record and view asset and location problems, causes, and remedies associated with work orders. This data enables you to identify trends and isolate probable causes of breakdowns.

You can use failure data to conduct failure analysis to review the history of asset and location failures over time. For example, you review issues such as breakdown trends or mean time between failures. You can correlate this failure information with other data such as preventive maintenance schedules to develop ways to reduce or limit asset and location failures.

In the Work Order Tracking application, you view the failure data information in the Failure Reporting tab. Failure data must belong to one or more failure hierarchies, which you create in the Failure Codes application. When you report failures, you use failure hierarchies.

A failure hierarchy is an organized set of data on problems, causes, and remedies related to assets and locations. The failure hierarchy is identified by a top-level failure code, called a failure class. If the asset or location on a work order is associated with a failure class, the default failure class value is the associated failure class.