by Bob Latino
Updated: January 5, 2022What Happened?: Investigating the (literal) Nuts and Bolts
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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: December 9, 2024A Mechanic’s Story: The Human & System’s Contribution
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Shallow Cause Analysis vs. Root Cause Analysis In this original post, A Mechanic’s Story: Basic Component Fatigue, we took a detailed journey through the physical side of a shaft failure RCA. We stopped at the physical side of that failure, parallel misalignment. However, stopping at the component level of failure does not constitute a credible and thorough RCA. Actually stopping at