Failure Mode Control Strategy Setup screen

This is an important setup screen if you want to select a control strategy for the defined failure modes. The decision diagrams to determine the control strategy do not widely fluctuate between the different RCM approaches, but clear differences exist, and you may also have your own preferences. This setup screen helps configure these decision diagrams and any preferences. The screen has the following important attributes:

1. Code: The unique identifier for the setup record.

2. Description: Description of the record. This description uses the extended length of 255 characters.

3. Type: Types all serve a different purpose, but all pertain to, and should guide the user to a proper decision on, the Control Strategy popup that is accessible from the selected failure mode on a variety of places in the system. Select one from the following types:

   1. Feasibility: Records of this type can be associated to a control method. Their purpose is to help the engineer decide if the selected control method covers all the feasibility criteria. For example: “Does the proposed mitigation task reduce the probability of the failure mode?”

   2. Effectiveness: Like the Feasibility type, but now for the effectiveness criteria. For example: “The proposed mitigation task must reduce the risk.”

   3. Worth Doing: Like the Feasibility type, but now for the worth doing criteria. For example: “Is the proposed mitigation task cheaper than the cost of the consequences?”

   4. Decision Guide: Like the Feasibility type, but this type confirms what task should be executed. For example: “Perform the scheduled preventive maintenance. “

   5. Help Occurrence: The Control Strategy popup has an Evident and Hidden checkbox to identify if the failure mode consequences are obvious to the operators (evident) or not (hidden). The text of this record type shows on the popup when hovering over the selected checkbox and when the RCM Project matches. If RCM Project is left blank on this setup record, the text will be used for all other projects. For example: “Is the failure evident to the operators or will they not see it?”
      Make sure you select Evident and/or Hidden, and optionally enter RCM Project.

   6. Help Consequence: The Control Strategy popup has a Safety, Environment, Operational, and Non-operational checkbox to identify the consequence of the failure mode. The text of this type shows on the popup when hovering over the selected checkbox and when the Evident and Hidden checkbox and the RCM Project matches. If RCM Project is left blank on this setup record, the text will be used for all other projects. For example: “Could this failure mode hurt or kill a person?”
      Make sure you select Safety, Environment, Operational, and/or Non-operational, and optionally select Evident and/or Hidden, and optionally enter RCM Project.

   7. Control Method: The records of this type make up the list of control methods, that the user can select from, on the Control Strategy popup. For example: “Perform the preventive maintenance schedule.”
      Make sure you select at least one from the Evident and/or Hidden checkboxes and at least one from the Safety, Environment, Operational, and/or Non-operational checkboxes, and optionally enter RCM Project.
      Additionally, select the Failure Finding checkbox to indicate this control method requires a failure finding interval to be determined. And to help the engineer select the proper control method, associate the relevant Feasibility, Effectiveness, Worth Doing, and Decision Guide to it.