Understanding Failure Analysis
Failure Analysis is a database in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne that allows you to associate failures, analyses, and resolutions with work orders, cases, or health and safety incidents. You need to set up failure analysis codes if you use codes to define a unit of failure. The codes are the building blocks of the Failure Analysis tree, but it is not required to set up trees to use failure analysis codes. You can use these codes with failures, analyses, and resolutions.
Set up your failure analysis codes so that they can be used in the Failure Analysis Search and Select grid on the Investigation subform in the Incident Details tab in the Incident Master program. Oracle recommends that you categorize the health and safety failure codes using one of the Failure Analysis category codes. Configure the Failure Analysis Search and Select grid with a custom grid to see the category code when the search and select appears. If you are also using Failure Analysis for Capital Asset Management, you need to distinguish your health and safety failure codes from the maintenance failure codes. Categorizing your codes enable you to search failure codes by using the Query By Example (QBE) with a custom grid to quickly find the appropriate health and safety failure code.