RCA Analysis Records

RCA Analysis records store basic information about a Root Cause Analysis created to track and analyze causes of Asset failures. The following table provides an alphabetical list and description of the fields that exist for the Root Cause Analysis family and appear by default on the RCA Analysis, RCA Analysis Summary, and Plant & Equipment Info datasheets. The information in the table reflects the baseline state and behavior of these fields. This list is not comprehensive.

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Field	Data Type	Description	Behavior
Acknowledgments	Text	People who contribute to the analysis but are not members of the RCA team.	You can enter a list of people who are not members of the RCA Team but who contributed expertise to the root cause analysis. For example, you may want to include the name, position, and company of each person who contributed to the development of the hypotheses, root cause, and recommendations for the pump failure that was analyzed.
Analysis Name	Character	A value that identifies the Root Cause Analysis throughout the GE Digital APM product.	This is a required field, and it must be unique.
Analysis Type	Character	The type of RCA you are conducting.	This field contains a list of the following values: Mechanical Operational Quality Safety Environmental You can select the value that defines the type of analysis you are performing. This field is available on the RCA Analysis and RCA Analysis Detail datasheets.
Asset Category	Character	The category of equipment associated with the RCA.	You can enter a value in this field to describe the Asset identified in the Asset ID field. This field appears on the Plant & Equipment Info datasheet and is labeled Equipment Category.
Asset Class	Character	The class of equipment associated with the RCA.	You can enter a value in this field to describe the Asset identified in the Asset ID field. This field appears on the Plant & Equipment Info datasheet and is labeled Equipment Class.
Asset Type	Character	The type of equipment associated with the RCA.	You can enter a value in this field to describe Asset identified in the Asset ID field. This field appears on the Plant & Equipment Info datasheet and is labeled as Equipment Type.
Charter	Text	The purpose of and requirements associated with conducting the RCA.	You can enter a value in this field to describe the goal that the RCA Team wants to achieve by conducting an RCA. This value is populated automatically with the charter that you entered in the Team Charter section of the RCA Application Settings.
Comments	Text	Any additional information about the current analysis.	You can enter comments in this field.
Cost	Number	The estimated cost of the failure event(s) you are analyzing. By default, the currency is set to $.	You can enter a value in this field to specify the estimated cost.
Date Published	Date	The date on which the RCA was published.	This field is disabled. When the RCA is published, this field is updated automatically with the published date.
Division	Character	The division of the equipment on which the RCA is being performed.	You can enter a value in this field to describe the piece of equipment identified in the Asset ID field. This field appears on the Plant & Equipment Info datasheet.
End Date	Date	The end date of the analysis, if applicable.	You can select a date using the Calendar tool. The date specified in the End Date field must be greater than the date specified in the Start Date field.
Event Narrative	Text	Information about the equipment failure.	You can enter a description of the event in this field.
Frequency	Number	The number of times the equipment failure occurred.	You can enter a value in this field.
Long Description	Text	A brief description of the current RCA.	You can enter text in the Analysis Description dialog box. This field is labeled Analysis Description on the datasheet.
Manufacturer	Character	The manufacturer of the piece of equipment on which you are performing the analysis.	You can enter a value in this field to describe the manufacturer of the Asset identified in the Asset ID field. This field appears on the Plant & Equipment Info datasheet.
Mechanism	Text	A brief description of the findings from the analysis.	This field appears on the RCA Communicate datasheet and is labeled Summary of Findings.
Plant Location	Character	The plant where the equipment failure occurred.	You can enter a value in this field to describe the plant location of the asset identified in the Asset ID field. This field appears on the Plant & Equipment Info datasheet.
Start Date	Date	The start date of the analysis.	You can select a date using the Calendar tool.
Unit	Character	The ID of the unit containing the piece of equipment for which you are conducting the RCA.	You can enter a value in this field to describe the unit of the asset identified in the Asset ID field. This field appears on the Plant & Equipment Info datasheet.