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ACA Data Model

An ACAAn Asset Criticality Analysis record and all the records that are linked to that record. Using the ACA interface, you can evaluate the criticality of systems and the individual locations and pieces of equipment that make up those systems by defining the consequences and probability of the failure events that may occur. In this way, you can determine which of your systems, locations, and pieces of equipment have the highest risk of failure in your facility. In other words, using the ACA interface, you can determine which of your systems, locations, and pieces of equipment are critical. is composed of entity families, relationship families, and business rules. The workspaces in the ACA interface provide you with a custom view of ACA records that exist in the database. These pages also help to facilitate the creation of new records.

The ACA data model uses families to represent the various components of an ACA, and leverages the GE Digital APM fundamental entity and relationship family infrastructure to store data related to an ACA. The ACA interface is simply a customized view of individual records that make up an ACA.

All ACAs begin with an ACA record. Each ACA record is linked to:

Each ACA System record is linked to:

The ACA System family contains Asset Groups that are made up of Equipment and Functional Location records, and they can participate in additional relationships when integrated with modules within the Asset Strategy work process.

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The following diagram illustrates the families that participate in an ACA. The boxes represent entity families, and the arrows represent relationship families. You can determine the cardinality of a relationship from the direction of the arrow (i.e., the arrow points to the successor family). For example, ACA System records are linked to Risk Assessment records through the Has Risk relationship, where the ACA System family is the predecessor.

In this diagram, the Equipment and Functional Location families represent the equipment and locations that are involved in the ACA.

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Depending on the licenses that have been activated in your database, you can promote records from ACA to the following modules in the Asset Strategy work process:

Throughout the ACA documentation, we assume that the ASM, RCM, and FMEA modules are active.

The following diagrams illustrate the families that participate in the integration between ACA and RCM, FMEA, and ASM. The boxes represent entity families, and the arrows represent relationship families. You can determine the cardinality of a relationship from the direction of the arrow (i.e., the arrow points to the successor family).

RCM/FMEA Integration with ACA

The RCM and FMEA modules use the same families, so the following diagram illustrates how families in the ACA data model are related to families in the RCM and FMEA data models.

ASM integration with ACA

The following diagram illustrates how families in the ACA data model are related to families in the ASM data model.

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