“Root cause analysis has traditionally been considered a risky business for maintenance operations because early approaches spoke only of "possible causes", "clues", "probable risk" and "trial balloon remedies". Maintenance simply could not rely upon a system that would allow such inconsistent and vulnerable information to impact decisions and planning. To do so would have threatened to undermine the on-line reliability and availability of equipment. All of that has changed now with the REASON Root Cause Analysis objective, verifiable, and logical data”
REASON® root cause analysis was developed with the enthusiastic and dedicated support and feedback from frontline and executive reliability professionals.
This Case Study provides maintenance professionals with an understanding of the maintenance troubleshooting capabilities of the REASON Root Cause Analysis methodology.
It details a brief history, examples of application, and an explanation of how REASON® Root Cause analysis works both to view the big picture, and to pinpoint the systemic root causes to maintenance problems that exist within the organisation.
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Two Mini Case Studies drawn from the Detailed Case Study
Seemingly unrelated incidents like fatalities, equipment failure and premature bearing failures may all have related root causes.
The three models that were produced by the root cause analysis process found their way to the Operations Director who had insisted upon being personally involved in the test. Although each root cause analysis had produced several different root causes and prevention options, the Operations Director immediately perceived within the three REASON models one root cause that was shared in common between the seemingly dissimilar loss events: an equipment maintenance problem, a field design problem, and a safety problem.
Drilling Company – REASON® in the hands of employees at the coal face
In one REASON testing company, the Maintenance and Engineering Director placed the fledgling REASON Root Cause Analysis troubleshooting method in the hands of maintenance men and tool pushers on the company’s drilling rigs. Every time something threatened to stop the drilling bit, on any one of their drilling rigs across the nation, an analysis of the threat was created with REASON and sent to their corporate offices. Literally hundreds of operations improvements were quickly achieved throughout the inventory of rigs through this means.
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