Root Cause Analysis (PROACT^® for Meridium) is a key work process and application to audit and analyze undesirable events that occur so that faults can be documented and strategies can be established to prevent the reoccurrence of the event. The PROACT work process guides an analyst through the steps of documenting the failure event, capturing the failure modes, determining root causes implementing recommendations and tracking for results. The deployment of Meridium Root Cause Analysis across an enterprise provides a knowledge base of repetitive and critical failures as well as a corrective action database that can define asset strategies to help keep undesirable events from occurring in the future.