Recommendations

Manage Recommended Actions

Once an analysis is completed, Recommended Actions can be managed through the Recommended Actions pane. After Recommended Actions are successfully managed, the consolidated collection of Recommended Actions can be promoted to Asset Strategy Management.

You can access the Recommended Actions by selecting Recommendations tab for an RCM or FMEA analysis.

Tip: For information about additional options available when working with the Recommendation records, refer to the Action Management section of the documentation.

Consolidate Recommended Actions

Before You Begin

Note: This documentation assumes that you are working with Recommended Actions with subfamilies that include Consolidate.

Procedure

Access the Recommended Actions section.
Next to each Recommended Action that will be involved in the Consolidate operation, select the check box.

Note: The Recommended Actions must be in the same family and same state.
In the page, select .
The state control menu appears.
Select Consolidate, and then select Done.
The Consolidate Recommendations window appears.
In the Consolidate Recommendations window, you can select either of the following options:
- Select the dominant elements of the Recommended Actions that you are consolidating.
  -or-
- Select Merge Remaining Unselected.
Select Consolidate.
The selected Recommended Actions have been consolidated.
Note: Any Secondary Actions that were linked to the recommendations and consolidated will be linked to the new consolidated target recommendation.

About SAE Standards in RCM Recommended Actions

Recommendation Management and SAE Standards

For each failure effect, one or more recommended actions can be defined. Generally, for the equipment or location and system owner, recommended actions should be designed to reduce to an acceptable level the probability and consequence of the related failure. Recommended Actions are the result of the Failure Mode and Risk Matrix Analysis. Each Failure Mode will have one or more Recommended Actions for how the failure can be avoided in the future.

After the Analysis team has fully analyzed the system, and while the information is still readily available, the team should define the criteria for reevaluation of the recommendation. For example, the analysis team can define whether a recommendation should be reevaluated based on time, a condition, a defined date, a system process change, or a change in the design code.

The SAE Standard JA1012, "Evaluation Criteria for Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Processes," specifies the following requirements for Recommended Actions. All Recommended Actions shall comply with the following criteria:

In the case of an evident Failure Mode that has safety or environmental consequences, the task shall reduce the probability of the Failure Mode to a level that is tolerable to the owner or user of the asset.
In the case of a hidden Failure Mode where the associated multiple failures have safety or environmental consequences, the task shall reduce the probability of the hidden Failure Mode to an extent which reduces the probability of the associated multiple failures to a level that is tolerable to the owner or user of the asset.
In the case of an evident Failure Mode that does not have safety or environmental consequences, the direct and indirect costs of doing the task shall be less than the direct and indirect costs of the Failure Mode when measured over comparable periods of time.
In the case of a hidden Failure Mode where the associated multiple failures do not have safety or environmental consequences, the direct and indirect costs of doing the task shall be less than the direct and indirect costs of the multiple failures plus the cost of repairing the hidden Failure Mode when measured over comparable periods of time.

Access Recommendations in RCM

Procedure

Access the Failure Effect for which you want to access recommendations.
Select the recommendation that you want to access.
The datasheet for selected recommendation appears in the workspace.

Tip: For information about additional options available when working with recommendation records, refer to the Recommended Actions section of the documentation.

Add a Recommendation

Procedure

Access the Failure Effect for which you want to add recommendations.
In the Recommendations pane, select .
The new recommendation datasheet appears.
As needed, enter values in the available fields and update mitigated risk assessment.
Optionally, to include action information in the recommendation, in the Identification section, select the Action Information tab, and then, as needed, enter values in the available fields.
Select Save.
The Recommendation is saved.