3.3.2 Failure Assessment

"2. Failure Assessment" is the second page of the NAVSEA Road Map tabbed menu, displaying 3 main sections to assess the existence of a current maintenance action and a significant rate of age degradation:

• Identify Failure Mode
• Existing Maintenance Action
• Recommended Action

3.3.2.1 Identify Failure Mode

This section shows a questionnaire that involves answering two to three questions, depending on the answers given by the user, in order to determine the progress of the Back-Fit RCM analysis. The questions are progressive, based on the previous answers selected.

Question 1: Is there an existing Maintenance Action?

• Response: YES
  • Recommendation: Continue Analysis, Select Existing Maintenance Action (drop-down menu)
• Response: NO
  • Recommendation: Continue Analysis, answer next question

Question 2: Does the Failure Mode actually occur in the service life, or does a significant rate of age degradation exist?

(Branches from Question 1's answer)

• Response: NO (Q1), YES (Q2)
  • Recommendation: Continue analysis, go to step 3: Classification page
• Response: YES (Q1), NO (Q2)
  • Recommendation: Delete Task, go to step 8: Proposed Maintenance
• Response: NO (Q1), NO (Q2)
  • Recommendation: No Change, go to step 8: Proposed Maintenance
• Response: NO (Q1), YES (Q2)
  • Recommendation: Continue analysis, answer next question (Question 3)

(Note: the source text lists "NO (Q1), YES (Q2)" twice with two different recommendations — "go to step 3: Classification page" and "Continue analysis, answer next question". This appears to be a genuine feature of the source document's branching logic, where the "NO, YES" combination is used both as an endpoint that proceeds directly to Classification, and — in a different context, likely dependent on further criteria not fully captured in the extracted text — as a path that continues to Question 3. Both branches are preserved here faithfully as they appear in the source, but the exact discriminating condition between these two "NO, YES" outcomes could not be confirmed from the extracted text; consult the live PDF/UI (Figures 20 and 23) if the distinction matters for a specific analysis.)

Question 3: Is it possible to create a Maintenance Action to address the failure path?

(Only reached via the "NO (Q1), YES (Q2)" continuation path)

• Response: NO (Q1), YES (Q2), YES (Q3)
  • Recommendation: Add new task, go to step 8: Proposed Maintenance
• Response: NO (Q1), YES (Q2), NO (Q3)
  • Recommendation: Redesign maintainable item, go to next Failure Mode

3.3.2.2 Existing Maintenance Action

This section shows all the details available for an existing Maintenance Action that has been selected in the "Identify Failure Mode" section.

3.3.2.3 Recommended Action

This section displays the recommendation once the first two sections have been answered and reviewed, and a link the user can select to open the next page.