Asset Criticality Analyses (ACAs)

About Asset Criticality Analyses

Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) is a tool that you can use to define the criticality of a system and the individual locations and pieces of equipment that make up that system.

About Adding Equipment and Functional Location Records to an ACA

Equipment and Functional Location records can be added to an ACA by linking:

  • A Functional Location record to an ACA System record that is linked directly to the ACA record.

    Only families that participate in the Has Functional Location relationship as successors to the ACA System family can be linked directly to an ACA System record. You will know if a Functional Location record is linked directly to an ACA System record if the ID of that record appears in the group of items under that system in the left pane.

  • A Functional Location record that is linked to an Equipment record through the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship and directly to an ACA System record. If such a relationship exists, when you add the Functional Location record to the analysis, the Equipment record will be added automatically.

    Only records for a family that participates in the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship as a successor to the Functional Location family will be added to the ACA automatically.

  • An Equipment record to an ACA System record that is linked directly to the ACA record.

    Only families that participate in the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship as a successor to the ACA System family can be linked directly to an ACA System record. You will know if an Equipment record is linked directly to an ACA System record if the ID of that record appears in the location/equipment ID column in a subsequent row below the root level.

    Note: You can add an Equipment or Functional Location record to only one ACA. If you try to add to an ACA an Equipment or Functional Location record that already belongs to another ACA, a message will appear, indicating that you cannot add the record because it already belongs to another analysis.

  • An Equipment record manually to a Functional Location record that is linked directly to the ACA System record.

    Only families that participate in the Safety Analysis Has Equipment relationship as successors to a predecessor Functional Location family can be linked to a Functional Location record. You cannot link an Equipment record to another Equipment record via ACA. You will know if an Equipment record is linked to a Functional Location record if the ID of that record appears in the Equipment ID column in a subsequent row below the row containing the predecessor record that appears in the Function Location / Equipment ID columns.

    Note: You can link an Equipment record to only one Functional Location record. If you try to link to a Functional Location record an Equipment record that is already linked to another Functional Location record, a message will appear, indicating that you cannot link the record because it is already linked to another Functional Location record.

About General Recommendation Records and ACA

At the ACA System level and Asset level, you can add General Recommendation records to the ACA by linking them to ACA System records.

If you add to the ACA a record that is already linked to a General Recommendation record, that General Recommendation record will also be added to the ACA automatically.

You will know that a General Recommendation record is linked to an Asset Criticality Analysis System record when you access the Recommended Actions pane, which lists the number of Recommended Actions that are currently associated with that system.

For example, the following image shows the grid on the Asset Criticality Analysis Systems page. In the Recommended Actions column, the text 1 Recommended Actions appears, indicating that the Asset Criticality Analysis System record that appears in that row is linked to one General Recommendation record.

You can manage the General Recommendation records for individual records within an ACA via the Recommended Actions pane, or you can view a list of all the General Recommendation records for an ACA via Action Management.
Tip: For information about additional options available when working with recommendation records, refer to the Action Management section of the documentation.

Access an ACA

Procedure

  1. Access the ACA Overview page.
  2. Select the Analyses tab.
    A grid appears which contains a hierarchy of all the completed analyses.
  3. Select the link for the record you would like to open.
    The Analysis Summary workspace for the record you selected appears, displaying the Overview section.
    Note: If you want to modify the ACA, select the Analysis Definition tab, modify the available fields as needed, and then select to save your changes.

Access Recommended Actions for an ACA

Procedure

  1. Access an ACA System.
  2. On the upper-right side of the workspace, select .
    The Recommended Actions pane appears, displaying a list of Recommendations associated with that ACA system.
    Note: See the Overview of Recommended Actions section of the documentation for additional options when working with recommendations.
    Tip: For information about additional options available when working with recommendation records, refer to the Action Management section of the documentation.

Access Associated Pages in ACA

Procedure

  1. Access an ACA System.
  2. On the upper-right side of the workspace, select .

    The Associated Pages menu appears, displaying a list of Associated Pages associated with that ACA system.

    Note: is accessible at Analysis, ACA System and Location/Equipment Levels. See the Manage Associated Pages section of the documentation for additional options when working with associated pages.

Access Reference Documents for an ACA

Procedure

  1. Access an ACA.
  2. Select the Documents tab.

    The Documents section appears.

    Tip: For more information, refer to the Reference Documents section of the documentation.

Create an ACA

Procedure

  1. Access the ACA Overview page.
  2. Select New Analysis.
    The Analysis Summary workspace appears.

  3. As needed, enter values in the available fields.
  4. In the upper-right corner of the workspace, select Site.
    Note: By default, the site that the user is assigned to appears.
  5. Select the site to which you want to assign the ACA record.
    Note: If the ACA record is assigned to the default site, then it can be accessed only by users who have been assigned to the same site. The site selector component becomes read only after it is saved. You will need to log in as a Super User to modify the site. A Super User can change the site to any of the sites that the user has permission for OR choose to make the ACA record as a Global Record by selecting Global, so that all GE Digital APM users can see it. See the Site Filtering section of the documentation for more information on using that feature.
  6. Select .
    The new analysis is saved.

What to do next

Export an ACA

Procedure

  1. Access the ACA Overview page.
  2. On the ACA Overview page, select the check box next to the ACA that you want to export.
    Note: Depending on the number of ACAs that you want to export, select or clear the check boxes next to the analyses.
  3. Select Export.
    The Export to a File window appears.

  4. Enter a file name for the export file, and then select Export.
  5. The export file is downloaded and appears in .xslx format.
    The Excel workbook exported contains standard worksheets and each column in the worksheet corresponds to the respective field in standard the ACA datasheet in the GE Digital APM families.
    Note: The Excel workbook downloaded is in the ACA Data Loader workbook format, where each additional row imported in the Excel workbook corresponds to the ACA that we have exported from GE Digital APM. The ACA Data Loader template does not allow you to export analyses with different Risk matrices.