What is asset criticality?

How much it hurts when this asset stops — the ranking that drives every priority.

Criticality ranks assets by the consequence of failure: safety, production loss, cost to repair, environmental impact. An A-critical asset stopping the whole line gets sensors, spares and fast escalation; a C-critical convenience item can wait.

Criticality decides PM coverage, spare-part stocking, alarm thresholds and work-order priority — it's the single field that turns a flat asset list into a risk-ranked register.

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