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Adding Symptoms to an MTA2 Failure Mode

A symptom is a keyword or phrase that summarizes the evidence that an operator, engineer, or technician would see when the failure occurs or is about to occur. For example, “trip-alarm sounds” could be defined as a symptom. Symptoms are assigned to MTA2, RCM2, and RBI failure modes to help maintenance personnel track asset faults to the failure modes that could cause them. Symptoms are listed in the Fault Diagnosis Guide, a report you can print for the site, an asset, or a strategy development analysis.

A Fault Diagnosis Guide lists symptoms and the failure modes that reference them. You can print a Fault Diagnosis Guide report for the site, an asset, or a strategy development analysis (MTA2, RCM2, RBI). The Analysis Summary view in every Strategy Development Analysis window contains the Fault Guide tab, which lists symptoms, failure modes, and assets.

For information about printing the Fault Diagnosis Guide, see Printing MTA2 Reports.

To Add Symptoms to a Failure Mode

1.	In the Maintenance Action Plan window, select the Details view and the Symptoms tab.

2.	Make sure that editing is enabled.

3.	Click Browse. The Browse Symptoms dialog appears.

4.	Select one or more symptoms and click OK. The symptoms are added to the tab.