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Where do we end
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Is Your Root
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Implement a Cost Effective
Root Cause Problem Elimination (RCPE)Process by Tor
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Supporting Root Cause Analysis: A Manager’s Perspective |
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Obstacles to Learning from Things that go Wrong
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Enhance the Ability to Perform Root Cause Analysis With
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What is RCA? Separating the Tools from the Methodologies |
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – Death of an Acronym?
by
Robert J. Latino, Reliability Center, Inc.
As
another well-known acronym has saturated industry today,
it has been retired to the pasture of “dilution” farm.
The term RCA (Root Cause Analysis) is used to cover such
a spectrum of meanings and significance, that the term
itself has become de-valued. Can the value that RCA
once stood for be revived to obtain the benefits that it
is capable of producing?
Read the full article here
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How to Sell Root Cause Analysis to Management
by
Robert J. Latino, Reliability Center, Inc.
Oftentimes we are sent to
attend classes on various topics where the material is
applicable to our work situation. However, we know deep
inside that even though we know this material is
applicable and can make our lives easier, our management
will never allow us the latitude to implement it. This
article will strive to convey our experience with how to
effectively convince management that RCA is a worthwhile
process.
More...Click here to read How to Sell Root Cause
Analysis to Management (41k pdf)
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What Makes A Root Cause Failure Analysis Program
Successful?
By John Kacher and Tita Ouvreloeil
HSB Reliability Technologies LLC
Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a reliability
technique used to identify the causal factors for
component, equipment, or system failures. The key to a
successful RCFA program is to identify and implement a
set of recommendations that address the cause of each
failure that is analyzed.
When RCFA programs do not meet
expectations, it is frequently because a process that
addresses roles and responsibilities, training, trigger
points, preserving data, reporting and implementation
was never formally developed. Some RCFA programs consist
of a few engineers who spend a few days training
offsite, come back to their regular jobs, and start
holding a few meetings after a big failure event occurs.
Others come back from similar training and attempt to do
too much by themselves. For example, in a steel maker
company, one such engineer, with little support, was
attempting to administer and facilitate 4 or 5 RCFA
teams at time. After a year, he had been involved in
over 50 RCFA’s; however, his records revealed that only
a few of the recommendations had ever been completed.
Practical experience proved that on-site or off-site
personnel training with deployment of the RCFA knowledge
in the plant and involvement and plant ownership to the
analysis and implementation process are the key factors
in a successful RCFA program.
More...Click here to read What Makes A Root Cause
Failure Analysis Program Successful? (87k pdf)
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Preventing Space Shuttle Disasters Means Getting to the
Root Cause By: Robert Latino
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was barely an hour
old and already the pundits were speculating about the
“cause.” In the days since that tragic event, a litany
of speculators has been parading in front of the media
talking about falling foam, missing tiles, the left wing
leading edge and anything else that can make them look
like they know the “cause of the accident.” This
clamoring by the media and pundits about the cause of
the Columbia disaster will undoubtedly result in only
one true answer; they will not know the true root cause
of the disaster. Sure, they will come up with one of the
causes, but preventing failures from reoccurring means
discovering all of the root causes, not just the first
cause you can identify.
More...Click here to read Preventing Space Shuttle
Disasters Means Getting to the Root Cause (12k pdf)
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DOE-NE-STD-1004-92
- DOE GUIDELINE
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS GUIDANCE DOCUMENT
February 1992
This document is a
guide for root cause analysis specified by DOE Order
5000.3A, "Occurrence Reporting and Processing of
Operations Information." Causal factors identify program
control deficiencies and guide early corrective actions.
As such, root cause analysis is central to DOE Order
5000.3A.
The basic reason
for investigating and reporting the causes of
occurrences is to enable the identification of
corrective actions adequate to prevent recurrence and
thereby protect the health and safety of the public, the
workers, and the environment.
More...Click here to read ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
GUIDANCE (718k pdf)
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Incident Analysis versus Root Cause Analysis
by Robert Latino, The Reliability Center
Oftentimes
we are all faced with new and/or old terminology that
crops up and forces miscommunications because they are
confusing and conflicting. Incident Analysis and Root
Cause Analysis (RCA) are two such terms
Let’s explore them in more depth and try to see which
term is appropriate for our respective applications.
Click here to read "Terminology Clarification"#1 (83k
pdf)
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THE ROLE OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT IN RCA
Like any initiative trying to be implemented into an
organization, the path of least resistance is typically
from the top down, relative to the bottom up approach.
The one thing we should always be cognizant of is the
fact that no matter what the new initiative is, it will
likely be viewed from the end-user as the
"program-of-the-month". This should always be in the
back of our minds in developing implementation
strategies.
Click here to read THE ROLE OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
IN RCA
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Apollo Root Cause Analysis
by Dean L. Gano
Apollo Root Cause Analysis is about effective
problem solving. It is truly a new way of
thinking that will ensure you find an effective
solution to almost any kind of problem. You will
discover new communication tools that are
revolutionizing the way people all around the
world think, communicate, and make decisions
together. More...Click
here to read Chapter 1 (77k .pdf) |
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