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by Bob Latino
September 23, 2021Become 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
by Bob Latino
September 16, 2021Nylon 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
by Bob Latino
September 9, 2021Fighting 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
by Bob Latino
September 2, 2021How 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
by Bob Latino
August 5, 2021What is the Difference Between Failure Analysis (FA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)?
Reading Time: 2 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
by Bob Latino
July 29, 2021Root 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
by Bob Latino
March 14, 2020Be “Little Bit Bold & Outrageous”: The Man Who Taught Us How
Reading Time: 10 minutes The Need to be a “Little Bit Bold & Outrageous” the man who taught us how This phrase ‘a little bit bold & outrageous’ was
by Bob Latino
February 13, 2020Accepting We Could Be Part of the Problem
Reading Time: 6 minutes Abstract: No matter where we work, we will experience failures or ‘undesirable outcomes’ of some kind. As long as we work with other humans, this will indeed