Component

In Asset Strategy Optimization, the Component is the lowest object in the hierarchy that can physically fail, and for which maintenance actions can be defined. Failure will affect the function of the part it belongs to, reflected by the failure mode of a part. The ways the component can fail are defined by creating one or more failure cause objects for that component. Then, the effect of failure is defined by associating (linking) the failure causes to one failure modes of the part. Acting on the failure of the component is defined by creating a Failure Based Maintenance (FBM) object for the component. Preventing failure of the component is defined by creating one or more preventive maintenance objects for each failure cause.

A component with two failure causes; the first failure cause shows two related maintenance actions

A component is always associated to a part as its parent object and can only have zero or more failure causes as child object.

To create a component

1. Right click the part for which you wish to create a component object; alternatively, select the part, then click the plus sign on the top right of the window, which will turn blue when you click it.

2. Select Add a component.

   An empty component object is created in the tree.

3. Fill in the property fields (enable the properties window if needed, by pressing the Enter button or double clicking the Component object): a description, function, and tag, if desired.

   FIELD	DESCRIPTION
   Description	Users are free to enter any description for the object. The logical option is to enter the actual name of the object
   Function	In this field, users can enter a functional description of the object in question, how it contributes to the function of system.
   Tag	The tag is the number by which the physical object is known within the system. Note: The tag value, when entered, will be displayed together with the name of the object in the tree.