PROACT for Meridium is a methodology that is used in the RCA module and allows you to conduct a root cause analysis. The PROACT acronym stems from the following steps, where we have capitalized the letters that make up the acronym:
PReserve: Team members gather and record information (i.e., failure data) about a piece of equipment's or location's failure.
Order: The Principal Analyst:
Defines the goals of the RCA Analysis.
Assembles the team members who will conduct the RCA Analysis.
Analyze: Team members review and analyze the available information and then record any conclusions.
Communicate: Team members submit to the decision makers in the organization their hypotheses about the cause of the failure and their recommendations for solutions to the failure.
Track: Team members track the success of the solutions that were implemented. A re-evaluation can be performed, if necessary.
You can use these steps as a guideline for conducting a root cause analysis in the RCA module, which consists of creating the data in Meridium APM that is necessary to complete these five steps of the PROACT for Meridium methodology and implement successful solutions.
Note: These steps do not need to be completed in the exact order that they are listed above. It is important, however, that all steps of the methodology be completed. For more information, see the workflow for conducting a root cause analysis.