The repeats

Causes that occur more than once, and what is being done about them.

The part

What it is

The repeat list is short and it is where nearly all of the available improvement sits.

Repeats surviving several corrective actions indicate that the cause was never actually found, which is worth escalating rather than repeating.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.

Repeating cause
What keeps happening.
Text shared type
Occurrences
How many times, over what period.
Number shared type
Addressed
Whether a durable fix has been made or only repairs.
Status shared type