Picture yourself driving to work on a cold, dark, winter morning. It's Monday. You pull into the parking lot and note with surprise that the plant is much quieter than it should be on a Monday morning. As you walk inside to your office, your growing apprehension turns into the sudden realization that something serious must have happened over the weekend...
Whether you work in a manufacturing facility, a continuous production facility, a hospital or building infrastructure, the need to prevent failures from reoccurring is familiar.
So how is this accomplished? By applying root cause analysis methodology.
Root Cause Analysis Made Simple covers the four fundamental steps to RCA.
- Quantify the magnitude of the problem - Why? When?
- Perform the analysis using the appropriate technique - Who? How?
- Develop a list of options for solving the problem
- Document the results and Implement recommended actions
This book provides an overview of RCA. It is intended to support you in understanding the business impact of preventing reoccurring failures and provide some tried-and-true practical approaches to conducting a root cause analysis.