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by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022Germination of a Failure-Why Does Stuff Really Break Down? (Q&A Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes
I recently presented a webinar for SMRP and Empowering Pumps, on the title above. There were several questions, post-presentation, that I felt were worthy of expanding on in the form of a blog. Question #2 How do you manage a situation where people just decide not to use simple tools like RCFA, just comfortable doing things same way? Even when you keep
by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022What Happened?: Investigating the (literal) Nuts and Bolts
Reading Time: 4 minutes
What Happened? As many of you know, I have been encouraging my LI contacts for years to take me up on my offer to review any pictures they have of failed parts, and we would try and provide them some preliminary feedback. Well, someone finally took us op on the offer and we wanted to share what was learned (we
by Bob Latino
Updated: November 17, 2023Accepting 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 be the case. These failures may surface in the form of production delays, injuries, customer complaints, missed deadlines, lost profits, legal claims and the like. In order to prevent the recurrence of any such undesirable outcome,