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by Bob Latino

September 23, 2021

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

September 16, 2021

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

September 2, 2021

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

August 27, 2021

Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me… Facing the Mirror!

Reading Time: 6 minutes Germination of a ‘Failure’ No matter where we work, we will experience failures or ‘undesirable outcomes’ of some kind. As long as we work with
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by Bob Latino

August 19, 2021

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

August 5, 2021

What 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
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by Bob Latino

July 29, 2021

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

June 3, 2021

Electronic Field Data Collection: The Bridge to the Connected Plant

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has created immense excitement and promise for industrial facilities. Having connected assets that continuously monitor their own health and
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by Bob Latino

April 8, 2021

Can you be Proactive in a Reactive Environment?

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you are like most people who work in a manufacturing or process plant, you have a plan for your day when you arrive in
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by Bob Latino

April 1, 2021

How Can vs Why: What’s the Difference?

Reading Time: 9 minutes When facilitating a Root Cause Analysis (RCA), the proper questioning process will make or break the effectiveness of the entire analysis. When we hear of
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by Bob Latino

March 4, 2021

Defect Elimination 101

Reading Time: 8 minutes In recent years, “Defect Elimination” has become a hot topic in the reliability world. But what exactly does defect elimination mean? How does it differ
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by Bob Latino

February 25, 2021

What Does RCA Mean To You?

Reading Time: 6 minutes We have all heard the term Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and we all likely interpret its meaning in a different fashion.  This is the primary
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