Anomalies

Anomalies are records that identify discrete items or areas of concern. An anomaly record may have been originated from an inspection item (which means that it will have a finding linked to it) or it may be a stand-alone record created within the integrity and inspection cycle (ad-hoc).

Anomalies can be accessed from the ANOMALIES screen, or from the Anomalies tab on the ASSETS screen. The functions that you can perform on the Anomalies tab of the ASSETS screen are basically the same as the ones you can do on the ANOMALIES screen, the main differences are:

On the ASSETS screen, you can only access anomalies that pertain to the asset you have selected in the asset tree or, if you have clicked the Child Assets button, to this asset and all its children.

On the ASSETS screen, you can see only a list of anomaly records and you cannot see the following:

Actions, Findings and Library tabs, which you can see at the bottom of the ANOMALIES screen. However, if you create or edit an anomaly record from the Anomalies tab of the ASSETS screen, you can still access these tabs from within the Add/Edit Anomaly dialog and you can perform any functions for these records as required.

The multimedia images assigned to the anomalies

The risk matrix associated with the anomalies

To close an anomaly, on the ASSETS screen, you choose Shortcuts ‣ Close Anomaly from the toolbar, whereas on the ASSETS screen, you choose Anomaly ‣ Close Anomaly.

For detailed information about the anomalies functionality, see Anomaly Management.