For each Asset Strategy, there is always one Active Strategy and one Proposed Strategy. Throughout this documentation, we refer to the following types of Asset Strategy:
- Active Strategy: Represents the strategy that you are currently using to maintain the piece of equipment or location.
- Proposed Strategy: Represents the strategy that you want to start using to maintain the piece of equipment or location.
When you create an Asset Strategy, the Active Strategy and the Proposed Strategy are created automatically and are identical. As you make changes to the Asset Strategy by adding Risks and Actions and assessing the risk, those changes are stored in the Proposed Strategy. When you activate the Proposed Strategy, the contents of the Proposed Strategy are copied to the Active Strategy. Then, once again, the Active Strategy and Proposed Strategy are identical.
Consider the following image, which illustrates the Proposed Strategy and Active Strategy that are created when you create an Asset Strategy.
Now, consider the following image, which illustrates what happens to the Proposed Strategy when you add an Action, Risk, and Risk Assessment to the Asset Strategy.
You can see from the preceding image that only the Proposed Strategy is affected. The Active Strategy remains unchanged.
Finally, consider the following image, which illustrates what happens when you activate the Proposed Strategy.
You can see from the preceding image that the Proposed Strategy and the Active Strategy are now identical again. The process would begin again if you were to modify the Asset Strategy in some way. For example, if you were to add a new Action, the following image illustrates how the Proposed Strategy would be updated, where the new Action is colored purple.
