RCAkit for AWOC

The Root Cause Analysis toolkit (RCAkit) application allows AWOC students to enter, edit, review and save their AWOC RCA assignments.  If you have questions on using this application contact:

Installing RCAkit

1. Before starting this installation, be sure to contact your IT support focal point on these installation procedures

2. Download the zipped RCAkit installation file from this web location:
   
   http://www.wdtb.noaa.gov/tools/rcakit/downloads/RCAkit.zip 

3. Unzip the file and move the 3 unpacked files to a temporary location.  (The 3 files are: RCAkit.CAB, SETUP.LST, and setup.exe)

4. Run the setup.exe program

5. Your IT support focal point can determine if the default names and file locations are acceptable within your office

6. Once installed, you can delete those three temporary files from step 3

Running RCAkit

1. To run RCAkit you can click the Windows “Start” button, then Programs, then the RCAkit Group. And finally the RCAkit Tab
   
   START > Programs > RCAkit > RCAkit
   
   
2. If you want to review the RCA training from AWOC or a video the RCAkit “knobology”, you have two buttons that link to these training topics: 
• One button is labeled “RCAkit Training Video”
• The other is labeled “RCA Training Reference”
3. After entering your RCA into RCAkit, save any of your RCA files to a know file location such as the Desktop, or “My Documents”, or any known directory