Failure Tracking Setup

You define failure severity and failure impact codes based on the requirements of your organization. When you perform a failure analysis, you can select failure severity and failure impact codes to search for specific failure events to analyze on the Failure Analysis page. PeopleSoft Maintenance Management delivers sample data that contains examples of these two types of failure codes. You can use this sample data to help you define your own failure codes.

You must set up failure severity codes for your organization before you can track failure events in PeopleSoft Maintenance Management. Each code describes the seriousness of the asset failure to your organization. For example, you could define failure severity codes as critical, high, medium, low, or none or with numerical values. You are required to select a failure severity code on the Work Order Failure Tracking page.

Failure impact codes are useful for identifying how the failure of an asset will affect specific organization circumstances or requirements such as hazardous conditions or materials, health issues, safety issues, and more. You can assign more than one failure impact code to a failure event on the Work Order Failure Tracking page. However, you are not required to set up or use failure impact codes to complete the Work Order Failure Tracking page.