Manufacturing › Maintenance
Failure Modes
How this KIND of equipment fails, with the effect and the detection method. Kept at the class rather than the machine, or the same bearing failure is entered forty times and never groups.
Where to find it
- Module: Manufacturing
- Group: Maintain
- Section: Maintenance
- Screen: Failure Modes
Address in the console: /mfg/failure-modes
List · 13 columns · 16 fields on its form · 2 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Code | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Class | Status | equipment_class |
| Machine | Code | equipment_no |
| Component | Text | component |
| How it fails | Text | failure_mode |
| S | Number | severity |
| O | Number | occurrence |
| D | Number | detection |
| RPN | Number | computed_rpn |
| Seen (12m) | Number | occurrences_12m |
| Typical hours | Number | typical_downtime_hours |
| Active | Text | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name required | Text | ||
| Equipment class | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Machine | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Component | Text | ||
| How it fails required | Text | ||
| Effect | Long text | ||
| Cause | Long text | ||
| How it is detected | Text | ||
| Severity (1-10) | Number | ||
| Occurrence (1-10) | Number | ||
| Detection (1-10) | Number | ||
| Risk priority number | Number | The product alone is misleading — a 10/2/5 and a 5/5/4 both come to 100 and are not the same problem, which is why the three factors are kept. | |
| Recommended action | Long text | ||
| Typical downtime (hours) | Number | ||
| Typical cost | Number | ||
| Active | Yes or no |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.