Most organisations design their maintenance strategies based on assumptions — manufacturer data, industry averages, or engineering judgement. These are reasonable starting points, but they don't reflect how your equipment actually performs in your operating environment.
Without structured failure tracking, there is no way to know whether maintenance intervals are right, whether reliability is improving, or where to focus improvement efforts.
The result: maintenance strategies remain static while the real-world picture changes around them. Opportunities for improvement go unnoticed. The same failures keep recurring.
RDT DRACAS provides structured, web-based tracking of every failure event across your asset base. Record what failed, when, why, and what was done about it — building a genuine failure history that grows more valuable over time.
Record every failure event as it happens. Structured data entry ensures consistency. Link each event to the equipment, failure mode, and corrective action taken.
Build failure histories over time. Identify patterns, recurring modes, and reliability trends. Real data replaces assumptions and gives you an objective picture of equipment performance.
Feed failure data back to the RCM Module to refine maintenance intervals. Update Weibull parameters with real operational evidence. Target improvement where it matters most.
The feedback loop turns maintenance from a static schedule into a living, improving process — getting better with every piece of data you collect.
DRACAS is the established framework for systematic failure tracking in reliability engineering. RaCom Reliability Toolbox RDT Module implements this as a modern, web-based application that integrates directly with your FMEA and RCM analyses. No spreadsheets, no disconnected databases — just structured data that flows through the entire reliability lifecycle.
Access anywhere. No installation. Just open your web browser, login, and go.
Maintain a structured register of all tracked equipment. Organise by system, location or asset class. Each item carries its full failure history and current reliability metrics.
Record failure events with structured, pre-determined, data: date, equipment, failure mode, cause, effect, corrective action, and downtime. Consistent data entry ensures reliable analysis — no subjective inputs required.
Track failure modes against the equipment hierarchy. See which modes occur most frequently, which cause the most downtime, and where maintenance effort should be focused.
Record and track corrective actions for every failure event. Ensure that actions are followed through and their effectiveness is monitored over time.
Import your equipment hierarchy and failure mode taxonomy directly from the FTA/RBD Module's FMEA or from the RCM Module. Start tracking from day one with a ready-made structure.
Generate failure summary reports and reliability metrics performance charts. Branded PDF output ready for management review or regulatory submission.
The FTA/RBD Module's FMEA identifies every system, equipment item, and failure mode. This hierarchy can be exported to RDT as a ready-made tracking structure.
As equipment operates, failure events are recorded against the structure. Over time, this builds a genuine picture of how equipment actually performs.
Real failure data feeds back to the RCM Module. Weibull parameters are updated with operational evidence. Maintenance intervals are refined. The strategy improves.
RDT DRACAS works as a standalone failure tracking tool. But its real power comes when integrated with the FTA/RBD and RCM Modules. Together, they form a complete reliability lifecycle: define what can fail, optimise how you maintain it, track what actually happens, and use that evidence to improve.
This is the feedback loop that turns reliability engineering from a one-off exercise into a continuous improvement process.
We'd love to show you how RDT DRACAS captures real failure data and feeds it back into your reliability programme.