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Read moreFind Time for RCA and Make Long-term Cost Savings
How do I know when to apply root cause analysis? This is a question I often get when introducing teams to the power of getting to the root cause of problems. “It takes too long” or “we don’t have the time” are also popular comments voiced during the course. Recognising these as requirements for implementing an RCA approach upfront will enable you to provide long-term problem solving and importantly saving money.
Read moreAre you Losing Money?
Early Equipment Asset Management is really about life cycle costing. That means ensuring that the equipment operator spends the least amount of money to buy, operate and maintain the item equipment over, let’s say, a ten-year period. In other words, decisions about purchases are not based purely on the purchase price but on how easy it will be to operate and maintain and how well the equipment will perform once it has been installed.
Read moreHow Root Cause Analysis can help predict the future?
I am often asked “Is the right strategy to start applying root cause analysis at the beginning of an improvement journey and get some quick wins or wait until a thorough reliability strategy is in place to reduce the need for root cause analysis”… In other words, is it better to let the equipment fail and learn from that or put more effort into preventing the failures in the first place?
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