Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System

A Formal management information system that supports five distinct and basic functions:

1) Recording data about failures

2) Reporting data to engineers/analysts for data analysis

3) Analysis to discover failure causes

4) Documenting corrective action plans

5) Checking on corrective action adequacy if any further action is required

Tip excerpted from The Professionals Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology by Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and Bob Baldwin

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