About Defining a System

Asset Criticality Analysis System records store details on the systems within your facility whose criticality you want to analyze. Equipment and Functional Location records store information on the assets in your facility that are part of that system.

When you create an Asset Criticality Analysis System record, it is linked automatically to the Asset Criticality Analysis record for the current ACA. Likewise, when you link an Equipment or Functional Location record to an Asset Criticality Analysis System record, the Equipment or Functional Location record becomes part of the ACA. In addition, if you link an Equipment record to a Functional Location record that already belongs to the analysis, that Equipment record becomes part of the ACA.

After you have defined the system, you can:

Assess the risk associated with an individual piece of equipment or location and the system as a whole.
Create General Recommendation records that store recommendations for actions that should be taken to mitigate the risk associated with individual pieces of equipment and locations and the entire system.