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by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022Root Cause Analysis Without Verification is Conventional Wisdom
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Root cause analyses are done every day all over the world. Organizations do root cause analysis because it is good business. From an explosion in an auto parts plant to the wrong prescription being given to a patient. Events such as these can have dramatic monetary, physical and psychological effects on an organization. To solve problems down to the true
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.
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 20243 Steps To Make RCAs More Impactful For Your Managers
Reading Time: 10 minutes
If managers knew what the overall power of a well supported Root Cause Analysis (RCA) effort meant for their bottom-line, they would be breaking down doors to implement the process. Unfortunately, this is often not the case, so this paper is an attempt to educate such individuals about the characteristics of an effective RCA methodology. The paper focuses on the
by Bob Latino
Updated: April 23, 2024The Secrets of How To Be a Good Reliability Engineer
Reading Time: 8 minutes
What does it take to be a good Reliability Engineer? Learn how to better utilize RCA thinking, develop Reliability habits, and how to build a business case with your management team. To increase your impact, you need to start thinking like an owner. Read on to learn The Secrets of Successful Reliability Engineers.
by Bob Latino
Updated: February 11, 2022What is ‘Reliability Engineering’?
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What is ‘Reliability Engineering’? I have been very involved recently with ongoing LI discussions with respected and noted experts in the Safety community, revolving around the perceptions those in Safety have of Reliability, and vice-versa. In Safety today, there are ‘new’ approaches emerging being lead by noted Safety researchers like Sidney Dekker, Erik Hollnagel and Todd Conklin. Such ‘new’ approaches
by Bob Latino
Updated: November 17, 2023Accepting We Could Be Part of the Problem
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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,