Failure

Information on the problem, possible symptoms that may lead to the problem, and the cause and remedy for the problem.

Causes and/or remedies could be reported against a failure in a multi-level hierarchical reporting. For example, failure analysis could be recorded as follows; for failure A, causes P and Q are the factors and remedies X, Y and Z are to be taken.

See http://www.openapplications.org/platform/1.

Element information

Content

• Problem [0..*]    This identifies the problem that is reported on an asset, equipment, facility or location

Attributes

None

Used in

• Type MaintenanceOrderHeaderType (Element MaintenanceOrderHeader)
• Type MaintenanceOrderLineType (Element MaintenanceOrderLine)

Sample instance

<Failure>
   <Problem>
      <ID>normalizedString</ID>
      <Type>normalizedString</Type>
      <Description>string</Description>
      <Note>string</Note>
      <Symptom>
         <ID>normalizedString</ID>
         <Type>normalizedString</Type>
         <Description>string</Description>
         <Note>string</Note>
         <UserArea>
            <!--any element-->
         </UserArea>
      </Symptom>
      <Cause>
         <ID>normalizedString</ID>
         <Type>normalizedString</Type>
         <Description>string</Description>
         <Note>string</Note>
         <UserArea>
            <!--any element-->
         </UserArea>
      </Cause>
      <Remedy>
         <ID>normalizedString</ID>
         <Type>normalizedString</Type>
         <Description>string</Description>
         <Note>string</Note>
         <UserArea>
            <!--any element-->
         </UserArea>
      </Remedy>
      <UserArea>
         <!--any element-->
      </UserArea>
   </Problem>
</Failure>