Secondary Actions

About Secondary Actions

A Secondary action is associated with a primary action. It defines the corrective actions that should be performed to mitigate an undesirable condition that is found while performing primary maintenance, monitoring, or data collection activity.

Access Secondary Actions

Procedure

  1. Access the Recommendation whose secondary actions you want to view.
  2. Select the Secondary Actions tab.
    The Secondary Actions workspace appears displaying a list of associated secondary actions.
  3. In the Secondary Actions section, select the action that you want to access.
    The datasheet for the selected secondary action appears.

Create a Secondary Action

Procedure

  1. Access Secondary Actions.
    The Secondary Actions workspace appears.
  2. In the Secondary Actions section, select .
    A blank datasheet appears for the new secondary action record.
  3. As needed, enter values in the available fields. For more information, refer to the RCM FMEA Recommendation Records section of the documentation.
  4. Select Save.
    The record is saved.

Delete a Secondary Action

Procedure

  1. Access Secondary Actions.
    The Secondary Actions workspace appears.
  2. In the Secondary Actions section, select the row containing the secondary action that you want to delete, and then select .
    The secondary action is deleted.

Promote a Secondary Action to Strategy

Procedure

  1. Access an Analysis.
  2. In the workspace, select .
    A message appears, asking you to confirm that you want to promote all of the pending Secondary Actions to ASM.
  3. Select Yes.
    A progress indicator appears. Once the process is complete, all the Secondary Actions are promoted from FMEA to ASM, and the date and time of the last promotion appears.
    Note: If the process cannot be completed, an error message appears.