Failure Analysis

The Root Cause Failure Analysis course aims to improve the attendee’s skills and to create a better understanding of failures, how to inspect and analyse them, as well as preventing their reoccurrence.

Theoretical learning and practical examples are provided to enable the attendee to conduct failure inspections and to analyse the data collected.

The course not only covers the methodology & fundamentals of failure analysis, but its application in the industry and on mobile equipment as well. The focus will be on mechanical systems.

Course Breakdown:

Maintenance Strategies

Proactive Maintenance Strategies
Risk and Reliability

Introduction to Maintenance Failures

Conditions for Asset Integrity
Definition of a Failure
Failure Progression
Types of Failures
Symptoms versus Root Causes
Practical Exercise: Examples of Equipment Failure Issues and Production Interruptions

RCFA Management

PDCA
RCFA Register
Triggers
Benefit versus Effort
Levels of investigation
Practical Exercise: Top 10 Downtime and Equipment Failure Issues

CFA Process

Step One: Define the Problem
Step Two: Collect Data
Step Three: Identify Possible Causal Factors
Step Four: Identify the Root Cause(s)
Step Five: Recommend and Implement Solutions
RCFA Pitfalls

RCFA Methodologies

5 Why’s
- Description of the Method
- Practical Exercise
STEP (Sequential Time Event Plotting)
- Description of the Method
- Practical Exercise
RCM Methodologies
- Description of the Methods
- Practical Exercise
Cause and Effect Analyses
- Description of the Method
- Practical Exercise

RCFA Reporting

Key Reporting Element
Practical Exercise: Plant Example

Course Info

Course Length:

24 hours

License:

1 seat x 365 days*

Failure Analysis

The Root Cause Failure Analysis course aims to improve the attendee’s skills and to create a better understanding of failures, how to inspect and analyse them, as well as preventing their reoccurrence.

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