Track and Reevaluate the Analysis Results

After your team's findings have been communicated successfully to the necessary individuals in your organization, the next step in the PROACT workflow is to track the effectiveness of your recommendations through RCA Tracking Items. The goal of tracking recommendations is to make sure that the recommendation that was implemented has produced the required results. Depending on the results, you may need to reevaluate the solution that was implemented to address the underlying issues.

During the tracking process, the team should decide on a set of conditions on which reevaluation notifications should be based. The Principal Analyst should specify these conditions in the associated fields in the RCA Tracking Item. These notifications should be based on event criteria.

Criteria that is event-based includes a number of failure events and/or the failure cost that the piece of equipment or location has incurred after the implementation of a recommendation. When the criteria defined in the RCA Tracking Item is exceeded, the RCA Tracking Item will be updated automatically to a Reevaluate status, and an email reminder will notify the responsible party to reexamine the recommendation.