Functionality index (FI) for use with an engineering management system (EMS)

A system employing a top-down, tiered, standardized data collection, recording and evaluation process for establishing an objective measure of the functional capacity of an asset to address at least one specified use, comprising:

• at least one specially adapted electronic processor, said at least one specially adapted electronic processor facilitating development of means at least one list of functional impact Categories and Sub-issue Types thereunder, answers to questions within said Sub-issue Types facilitating determination of functionality of said asset for said use;
• at least one engineering management system (EMS) accessible to said at least one specially adapted electronic processor;
• at least one communications system to provide said list of functional impact Categories and Sub-issue Types to at least one evaluator;
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• a combination of hardware and software accessible to said specially adapted electronic processor and having at least the following purposes:
• to facilitate use by said at least one evaluator of said list of functional impact Categories and Sub-issue Types to produce at least one evaluation of functionality of said asset,
• for said at least one evaluator to assign a Severity measure on a Severity scale to each existing said Sub-issue Type, for said at least one evaluator to record occurrences of issues associated with said asset under at least one said Sub-issue Type,
• for summing said occurrences of issues to determine Density of at least one said Sub-issue Type,
• for recording said at least one evaluation in said at least one engineering management system (EMS), and
• for using said recorded at least one evaluation to calculate as said objective measure a numerical value as a functionality index, FI.

Electronically readable storage media tangibly embodying instructions which when executed by a at least one specially adapted electronic processor:

• accesses at least one engineering management system (EMS) accessible by said at least one specially adapted electronic processor;
• develops at least one list of functional impact Categories and specific Sub-issue Types thereunder that impact functionality of said asset for each said at least one specified use, said at least one list of functional impact Categories and specific Sub-issue Types thereunder stored on said electronically readable storage media;
• displays said list of functional impact Categories and specific Sub-issue Types to at least one evaluator;
• develops at least one question for each of said functional impact Categories;
• provides said at least one list of functional impact Categories, specific Sub-issue Types thereunder and said at least one question for each of said functional impact Categories on said at least one specially adapted electronic processor for use by at least said at least one evaluator;
• permits said at least one evaluator to use said list of functional impact Categories and specific Sub-issue Types thereunder and said at least one question for each of said functional impact Categories in an evaluation to evaluate functionality of said asset by observing issues of said asset;
• records on at least one said at least one specially adapted electronic processor occurrences of said issues under a corresponding said Sub-issue Type;
• assigns a Severity level, S, on a Severity scale to each said Sub-issue Type upon recording all said issues for each said Sub-issue Type;
• sums occurrences of said issues by said Sub-issue Type to determine a Density, D, of each said Sub-issue Type;
• records said evaluation of said at least one evaluator in said at least one engineering management system (EMS);
• and
• uses said recorded evaluation and employs at least one algorithm which takes into account a functionality deduct value and adjustment factor, to calculate as said objective measure a numerical value as a functionality index, FI;
• and
• uses said functionality index to evaluate an asset.