In an RCA Analysis, preserving failure data involves collecting a wide range of information related to the equipment or location failure that the team will analyze. The collected data is stored in RCA Preserve Item records, which contain task-related data for the collection of the failure data. In this way, RCA Preserve Item records are essentially tasks assigned to the team member who should collect the failure data specified in the record by a certain date. For example, an RCA Preserve Item record may contain a task to collect all the broken pieces of a piece of equipment.
Using the Preserve Failure Data page, you can create new RCA Preserve Item records or modify existing RCA Preserve Item records for the current RCA Analysis. After the tasks defined in the RCA Preserve Item records are complete, the team can begin to analyze the data that was collected.