ZineQx is a risk-based asset management information system that uses failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analyses (FMECA). FMECA has a bottom-up (Detailed) or top-down (Functional) approach to risk analysis and assessments. ZineQx is inductive, meaning data-driven. This information can be technical, practical as well as informative. Data related to an object can be collected on site (in the field from experts, drones, etc.) or it can inputted online (ingested from a database, digital, or collected from documentation, paper base).  All input data and the output results must be validated and reliable, which is one of the most important steps in the process. ZineQx data is stored in NoSQL databases as simple features or simple feature access, which refers to a formal standard (ISO 19125-1:2004) that describes how real world objects can be represented in computers, with accentuation on the spatial geometry of these objects. The standard is universally implemented in spatial databases (SDB, such as PostGIS) and spatial databases or dataframes (SDF) format and can be exported to other GIS applications as such as  ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS etc. A subset of simple features forms the GeoJSON standard. TopoJSON is subsequently an  extension of  GeoJSON, which in turn is a specific form of the JSON file format. Dataframes are read from many sources, such as  shapefiles, feature classes, GeoJSON, and Feature Layers.

The ZineQx application decomposes the elements in an object or objects that form(s) a system and link the elements of that object or system, thus forming relationship or (a) chain(s). By determining the effect(s) of failure, the failure mode(s) and the cause(s) or mechanism(s) of failure, ZineQx can give a reliable analysis of the life cycle of an individual element, object(s), a composition of elements, and the system, an ensemble of objects (a project or process), in it’s entirety for project-, process-, program- or quality management. The ZineQx methodology is comparable to the steps in the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) technique. These steps form the process during the Analyze phase of the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC) process and the Plan phase of Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) activities or RISMAN steps, comparable to NEN-ISO 31000 for risk management and NEN-ISO 55000 & 55001 for asset management and management systems requirements.