Root Cause Failure Analysis

Course #

602

This is an instructor led, competency based program designed to gain insight and understanding to the concepts of root cause failure analysis and how to apply those concepts to reduce the repeat calls. The student will be given several actual plant incident scenarios and will conduct an investigation, write reports, produce failure continuum charts, identify root causes and recommend corrective actions. 

 

Approved CEU Credits:

1.5 Credits

Prerequisite:

This course is designed for maintenance personnel with the desire to reduce the repeat calls in their business. They should have at least 3 to 5 years of experience in maintenance work and troubleshooting.

Format:

This is a 5 hour , one days a week, for 3 weeks course.

Cost:

$ 465.00

 

Learner Outcomes:

  1. The student will acquire an understanding of basic root cause failure analysis procedures and be able to explain its benefits, apply the 80- 20 rule to select problems for study, determine if potential Root Causes are true Root Causes, apply the Four Steps process to given scenario and determine the type step it defines,
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  2. Using the "Interview Guide" the student will be able to interview operations personal, maintenance personal, collect physical data from the incident scene and write a report.
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  3. Given several incident reports the students will be able to convert the reports into a "Failure Continuum Chart".
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  4. Given several actual plant incident scenarios the student will conduct interviews, write reports, produce Failure Continuum Charts, and identify Root Causes.
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  5. Given several customer plant incident scenarios the student will conduct interviews, write reports, produce Failure Continuum Charts, identify Root Causes and recommend corrective action. Optional