Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

24 Training Hours

 

Introduction

Owners of industrialized plants, manufacturing facilities, and commercial entities recognize that at some point their assets and equipment will require some form of maintenance. 

 

This workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive training to help you fully understand and apply concepts learned. 

 

Objectives

Learn: 

 

• What is a root cause

• RCA process

• Facilitator Role

• Problem definition 

• Gathering of all relevant data and information

• Identify contributing issues

• Determining predominant Root Causes

• Causal Factor Charting

 

Methodology

 

This course was developed using over 30 years of experience of world class best practices. The focus is on value adding activities and understanding effective root cause analysis of critical asset failures and their impact on the long-term budgetary planning. 

 

The exchange of instructor and students’ experiences, case studies and practical exercise complements positively the lecture.

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Benefits

 

• High Return-On-Investment (ROI) are achievable for money invested in training and man-hours committed to an investigation. 

• Reduces the high cost of repetitive failures.

• Reduces frustrations of maintenance and operating personnel.

• Improve safety and environmental conditions and avoid unnecessary downtime.

• Identifies deficiencies in training programs and operating procedures.

• Decreases quality defects. 

• Determining the root causes of a problem or quality characteristic using a structured approach.

• Encouraging group participation and utilizing group knowledge of the process.

• Indicating possible causes of variation in a process.

• Increasing knowledge of the process by helping everyone to learn more about the factors at work and how they relate.

• Identifying areas where data should be collected for further study

• Determining the relationship between different root causes of a problem.

• Empowers the staff to complete their own RCA before delegating upward.

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Who should attend?

 

Experienced industry personnel seeking worldclass, hands-on, training to learn the concepts and theories of Root Cause Failure Analysis. This workshop will provide students with a practical interactive approach enabling them to see firsthand the value of monitoring, identifying, documenting, and implementing improvements for equipment, processes, or human failures (RCA facilitation).

 

This workshop will provide students with interactive training including practical and industry specific case studies.

 

• Maintenance Managers

• Maintenance Superintendents

• Maintenance Engineers

• Reliability Engineers

• Plant Managers

• Engineering Managers

• Manufacturing Managers

• Operations Managers

• Asset Managers

• Project Managers

 

Key Topics

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• Data Collection and Analysis

• RCA Methods

• Root Cause Identification

• Recommendation Generation and Implementation

• 8D’s

• Causal Factor Charting

• Barrier Analysis

• Cause-and-Effect Diagram (Fishbone)

• Cause-and-Effect Matrix

• 5 Whys

• A3

• APOLLO

• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)