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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

Tesoro Escondido: Eliminando Fallas Crónicas Puede Reducirse el Costo de Mantenimiento Hasta en un 60%

Reading Time: 5 minutes Cada año, la industria estadounidense gasta bastante más de $300 mil millones de dólares en mantenimiento de la planta y sus operaciones. Un estimado 80%
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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

Become An Equipment Reliability Detective: Preserve Failure Data

Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s amazing how quickly failure data (evidence) can disappear after a ‘failure’ has occurred. Following such an unexpected incident, there is sometimes a lot of
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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

Nylon Plant Case Study

Reading Time: 2 minutes This case study took place at a nylon plant in Virginia which at the time provided major amounts of nylon to the tire and carpet
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by Bob Latino

Updated: November 17, 2023

Fighting Failure: Changing A Plant’s Culture To No Longer Accept Failure

Reading Time: 6 minutes Failure has become a part of every industrial culture around the world; it permeates everything we do in an industrial facility. It is so much
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by Bob Latino

Updated: November 3, 2023

How to Select the “RIGHT” Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Vendor?

Reading Time: 4 minutes With RCA being a buzzword of the weeks, companies are faced with a slew of new vendors with numerous RCA methods and practices to help
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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

Reliability.com: Ammonia Plant Case Study

Reading Time: 3 minutes This case study takes place in a Louisiana ammonia plant. The plant had above industry average downtime (116 Days of downtime compared to an industry
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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

When It Comes to Empowerment Are You Shifting Power or Simply Passing the Buck?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Many corporate executives see empowerment, stewardship, and benchmarking as the way to a healthy future. Like most modern management theories, these concepts have merit in
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by Bob Latino

Updated: November 17, 2023

What is the Difference Between Failure Analysis (FA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently, Reliability Center, Inc. received an inquiry from one of our web visitors asking the differences between three confusingly similar Reliability acronyms. We thought others
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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – Death of an Acronym?

Reading Time: 4 minutes As another well-known acronym has saturated industry today, it has been retired to the pasture of “dilution” farm. The term RCA is used to cover
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by Bob Latino

Updated: January 5, 2022

How Solving This Problem At It’s Root Saved This Company $1.15 Million

Reading Time: 6 minutes The Problem:  “We had experienced nine catastrophic failures of our lance carriage assemblies in the Basic Oxygen Furnaces (BOF) at an approximate cost of $250,000
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by Sebastian Traeger

Updated: February 11, 2022

You Need a Digital Strategy (Part 2): 5 Key Steps for Creating Your Strategy

Reading Time: 6 minutes In our last post, we discussed why you need a digital strategy. Now, let’s talk about what it takes to create one.  While there are
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by Bob Latino

Updated: November 17, 2023

Do We Get Our Money’s Worth Out of Training?

Reading Time: 3 minutes A turbine in a refinery fails catastrophically. The adrenaline is flowing as efforts to recover and get back on-line are taking place. Even though turmoil
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