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This screen holds the failure taxonomy: what failed, how it failed and why it was allowed to. These three lists are what a technician picks from when closing a job of a type with Failure capture switched on, and what every reliability figure is grouped by. Open it from Administration → Failure taxonomy.
If you don’t see this in your navigation, your administrator can switch the module on under Administration → Modules, or it may not be included in your plan.
The failure taxonomy screen The failure taxonomy screen The stat strip counts modes, mechanisms, causes and how many failures have been classified with them. Who can change this. Add configuration entries and Edit configuration entries.

The three lists

Each list shows Name and In use. Drag a row to change the order it is offered in. Add opens a new entry; click a row to edit it. Two names for the same failure split one problem into two smaller ones, and neither reaches the top of the bad-actor Pareto — the failure mode is the term it groups by. Keep mechanisms as a separate list, because the same mode arrives by several mechanisms that need different answers. Record causes as something somebody can change: “old age” is a cause nobody can act on.

The form

The form is the same for all three lists. Editing a failure mode Editing a failure mode

Where it is used