ACA Systems

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.

Access an ACA System

Procedure

Access an ACA.
In the left pane, select the system that you want to access.

The workspace for the selected ACA system appears.

Create a New Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) System

Procedure

Access an ACA.
In the left pane, select .
A blank ACA System datasheet appears.
As needed, enter values in the available fields.
In the upper-right corner of the ACA System, select Site.

Note: For an ACA system, the Site is inherited from the ACA. The site selector component is read only. You will need to log in as a SuperUser to modify the site. See the Site Filtering section of the documentation for more information on using that feature.
Select .

The new ACA system is saved.

What to do next

Link Equipment or Functional Location Records to an ACA system

Delete an Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) System

Procedure

Access an ACA.
In the Analysis Summary page, select .
A grid appears, displaying a list of ACA Systems.
Select the System you want to delete.
Select .
Select Yes.
The selected ACA System is now deleted.

What to do next

Link Equipment or Functional Location Records to an ACA system Link Equipment or Functional Location Records to an ACA System

Link Equipment or Functional Location Records to an Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) System

Procedure

Access an ACA System.
In the left pane, to add an Equipment record to the system, select .

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To add a Functional Location record to the system, select .

The Asset Finder window appears.

Note: If you want to remove a Equipment or Functional Location, select . The Equipment and Functional Locations are filtered and displayed based on the site value inherited from the user.

To search for an Equipment or Functional Location, Select , and then enter the name or keywords to find the Equipment or Functional Location that you want to add to the system.
Next to the Equipment or Functional Location you want to add, select .
The Equipment or Functional Location is added to the list for that system.
Select Done.
The system is updated with the new Equipment or Functional Location.

What to do next

Access the Risk Matrix for an ACA System

Unlink Equipment or Functional Location Records from an Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) System

Procedure

Access an ACA System.
Select .
Select each row containing the asset that you want to unlink.
A grid appears, displaying the assets contained in the ACA system.
Select .
Select Yes.
The selected assets are unlinked.

Manually Link an Equipment Record to a Functional Location Record in Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA)

Procedure

Access an ACA System.
In the left pane, select the Functional Location record to which you want to link an Equipment record, and then select .

The Asset Finder window opens.

Note: If you want to remove a Equipment or Functional Location, select .
Select
When you have selected the record you want to add, select Done.
The Equipment record is now linked to the Functional Location record in your database.