Concepts

Settings

Performance Management Settings

Contents

Defining Failure or Anomaly Types and Classifications

Defining Failure Severities

Defining Statuses for Failure Follow-up Actions

Defining Mitigation Types

Setting the Failure and Downtime Filtering Horizons

Setting Options for Charting Indicator Readings for Failures

Setting the Numbering Format for Failures

Setting up Downtime and Work Delay Reasons

Setting up Products for Production Loss Accounting

Selecting a Default Time Unit for Downtime

Allowing Overlapping Downtime Incidents

Selecting the RCA Diagram Template

Setting up RCA Recommendation Thresholds

Setting up RCA Analysis Types

Setting up RCA Analysis Statuses 

Setting up Failure Severities for RCA

Setting up Probability of Recurrence Values for RCA

Setting up Cause Classifications for RCA

Setting up RCA Checklist Items

Setting up RCA Events: Rules for Assigning Statuses

Setting the Numbering Format for RCA Analyses

The topics in this section describe the failure and downtime settings found in the site’s Performance Management view.

Note: For information about failure and anomaly subtypes, see Creating Failure Subtypes.

Note: For information about other settings in the Performance Management view, see Project Management Settings.

Failure tracking is the practice of recording information about equipment failures. Any event in which equipment cannot perform its function within the limits and under the conditions required of it is considered a failure. The severity of a failure can range from potential to full failure.

APM uses the failure record’s date information to calculate statistics (such as time between failures) that measure equipment reliability and maintainability. Failure tracking also provides a way to measure the savings gained by avoiding failures. Failure tracking allows you to make informed decisions when targeting assets for improvement.

Downtime is a period of time or a percentage of a timespan that an asset is not functioning, usually as the result of either a failure or routine maintenance.

Before you can start using APM to track failures and downtime, you must define settings. The topics in this section explain how to define failure types, classifications, severities, and policies for charting indicator readings that occur prior to a failure and after it is resolved. There are also topics explaining how to define downtime reasons and the default reporting unit for downtime.