The purpose of this step is selection of appropriate maintenance type (types) for each failure cause, taking into consideration failure effect category (FEC) and other factors. MSG-3 document provides maintenance type selection guidelines for each FEC. The current MSG-3 step provides decision-making diagrams for selecting appropriate maintenance type.
1. | Select top element or highest manageable MSI item in the product tree. |
2. | Choose "5-Task Selection" MSG-3 step in the button bar. |
3. | List of failure causes will appear (only maintenance-significant items effects will appear): |

4. | For each failure cause in the list, perform the following steps: |
a. | Press "Task Requirements Analysis" button (or double-click on the effect). |
b. | Decision diagram will appear. Select appropriate "Yes" or "No" answers for each question by clicking yellow boxes with answers: |

Selected answers are marked by green background color.
Decision diagram is different for each failure effect category.
d. | Press "Task Definition" button. |
e. | Remarks/Tasks dialog will appear – provide remarks on your decision and enter details of scheduled maintenance tasks to the table in the lower part of the screen: |

5. | After decision for all items is taken, the items list will display the results. |
6. | Press Ok to close the failure effects list. |