About Analyzing Data

In an RCA Analysis, analyzing data involves compiling the information that has been collected thus far in the RCA Analysis and representing it visually in order to facilitate discussion. Event Diagrams and Logic Trees let you represent visually the events that are associated with an piece of equipment's or location's failure and the cause-and-effect relationships that may have led to a failure event.

You can create an Event Diagram on the Event Diagram page and a Logic Tree on the Logic Tree page. In both diagrams, you can add nodes to the Failure Event node that represent components of the RCA Analysis. For example, if you define the Failure Event node as a fire, in the Event Diagram you can add to the Failure Event node upstream nodes that depict the chain of events that preceded the failure event. Additionally, in the Logic Tree, you would add to the Failure Event node downstream nodes that represent all the possible causes for the failure event.

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