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by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024In Healthcare, Is The Human Being An Asset Or Liability?
Reading Time: 13 minutes This article contrasts the application of preventive and predictive technologies in industry to those in healthcare. For years, risk managers have been discussing the rationing
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024Supercharge Lean Six Sigma with Root Cause Analysis
Reading Time: 8 minutes Has your organization adopted Six Sigma? Lean manufacturing? What about Lean Six Sigma? If you already have any of these business process improvements in place,
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024Name That Failure | Part 3
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can you identify and name this fracture pattern? How can you tell it is that fracture pattern? Where are the origin(s) of the failure
by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022Name That Failure Pattern | 2nd Edition
Reading Time: 3 minutes This failure occurred on a turbine driven boiler feedwater pump (TDBFP) at a fossil fuel power plant. The pump in question is an outboard boiler
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024Name That Failure Pattern – Part 1
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is a failed shaft that came out of a pump in a paper mill. The pump was only in service for about a month
by Bob Latino
Updated: November 16, 2023Examining Rolling Element Bearings
Reading Time: 7 minutes In our last series highlighting the 4 primary Failure Modes (FM) of component failures (erosion, corrosion, fatigue and overload), we discussed how to read fractured surfaces.
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024Optimizing RCA and FMEA in Health Care
Reading Time: 12 minutes “Failure Mode and Effect Analysis” (FMEA) and “Root Cause Analysis” (RCA) are becoming commonplace terms in work environments and in the literature. This article will
by Bob Latino
Updated: May 2, 2024Defining Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Reading Time: 7 minutes In this blog, I discuss the RCA definition I used as a career analyst/investigator and explain why it makes sense to me. You decide if
by Bob Latino
Updated: December 11, 20233 Steps to Improve Your Root Cause Analysis
Reading Time: 5 minutes There are various ways for us to improve our root cause analysis and take our reliability to the next level. Reliability professionals could do RCAs
by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022The 5 Reasons Why Most RCA Efforts Fail to Have a Lasting Impact
Reading Time: 5 minutes Most of us have all worked at places with some degree of an ‘RCA’ effort. They likely all defined and practiced ‘RCA’ differently, but nonetheless
by Bob Latino
Updated: July 31, 2023The PROACT® Approach to RCA
Reading Time: 9 minutes Chapter 1: Is All RCA the Same? An RCA myth shared by many managers is that RCA methods are all the same, when in fact
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024Is There Really a Direct Correlation Between Reliability & Safety?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Safety is often directly correlated with system or component reliability. Is that really the case? Find out what the experts and their data really says.