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Good morning!,

Our Failure Class Code listing has grown to nearly 60.  We are taking a hard look at drastically downsizing this list.  There have been many discussions about taking the listing down to approximately 30. I recommended we come up with maybe 4-6 failure class codes.  My thoughts are a failure is a failure.  If a good enough work order description is written, why do we need COMM FAIL and UPS FAIL and COMPRESSOR FAIL and and and...see my point?  On the flip side, if a detailed Failure Code is given on the work order it does make querying a report MUCH easier.  Curious to see what everyone else out there is doing in terms of your failure codes.  I work for an O&G company so I am aware it all depends on your industry.
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Lindsay Janek
Summit Midstream Partners
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It's good to have one failure class for each different type of equipment, so you can assign different failure codes. One Air Condition unit will have different failure classes ( deferent Symptoms, Probable Causes, and suggested Remedies) than for example bicycle. Some companies require Failure Codes to support RCM, RCFA, and FMEA reliability initiatives and I saw systems with over 1500 failure codes because their maintained program cover more than 500 different types of equipment. (AC Units, Generators, Compressor, Vehicles, Cranes, Laptops, Dryer Washers, etc...)

If different operators report the same failure as "break", "breaking", and "breaks", in the work order description it will be a nightmare to filter or run the report. Limiting codes to a predefined list will prevent variants.

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Haris Cengic
PAE
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Failure codes PCR should be kept short and simple.  If you provide too many choices for technicians to choice, you ​will get a lot of noise to filter through or failure codes that are based on the symptom which may not be related to the true Problem.  When building your Problem, Cause and Remedies you need to get buy in from the technicians.  They will tell you what needs to be in there and what doesn't.  Technicians time is precious and the last thing that they want to do is spend time filtering through 60 + choices to choose from. They want to fix the job, quickly document and move to the next job.  Look at the history of the asset, this will also tell you where you need to focus.  If a PCR has never been used then why have it as a choice.  Remember, the PCR are there for finding trends so keep the categories relevant to allow for good trending.  If the categories are too broad or too long you will be missing opportunities.  I hope that helps.

Chad
Reliability Eng. Tech


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Chad Sandquist
Ethicon
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The best failure hierarchy is the one that's used.  You do pre-populate the FAILURECODE attribute on on the asset (or location) record?  That will help but it is true that overwhelming a tech with choices when they're comping a work order will most certainly lead poor data.

The out-of-the-box reports are not bad but for serious reliability analysis you'll want to roll your own.

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Mack Parrott
Projetech Inc.
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