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by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022Solving Chronic Failure (Video From The Vault)
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When is an RCA Typically Done? What about the Chronic Failures? Learn in this “Video From The Vault” how PROACT RCA works on Chronic Failures for a PROACTive Reliability Environment!
by Bob Latino
Updated: November 17, 2023RCA Tools VS Methodologies
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If we have heard it once, we have heard it a million times – “let’s do an RCA on that failure”. The problem here is that phrase will mean something different to everyone who says it. What is an RCA? That is a question even the notable experts cannot agree on. With all of this RCA “chaos”, how do we make any progress? The
by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022NEW FEATURES To PROACTOnDemand!
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by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022What is RCA? Separating the Tools from the Methodologies
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What is RCA? Separating the Tools from the Methodologies By Bob Latino, CEO, Reliability Center, Inc. Abstract: If we have heard it once, we have heard it a million times – “let’s do an RCA on that failure”. The problem here is that phrase will mean something different to everyone who says it. What is an RCA? That is a question even the notable
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024A Different View of the Swiss Cheese Model
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Much has been written about James Reason’s original Swiss Cheese Model described in his book Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents. Figure 1 is a basic representation of this model. Many today consider this model to be obsolete because of the evolving complexity of systems due to emerging technologies. Therefore, the linearity of failure expressed in this original model, is not as