ABSTRACT
The RCA tools can be used in a reactive fashion and/or a proactive fashion. The RCA analyst will ultimately determine this. When we use RCA only to investigate incidents that are defined by regulatory agencies, then we are responding to the field. This is strictly reactive. However, if we use the FMEA tools described previously to prioritize our efforts, we will uncover events that many times are not even recorded in our computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) or the like. This is because such events happen so often that they are no longer an anomaly, they are a part of the job. They have been absorbed into the daily routine, the norm. By uncovering such events and analyzing them, we are being proactive because unless we look at them, no one else will.
