Overview

During this highly interactive, one-day course, you will learn the underlying concepts of a systematic process for identifying the root causes of failures. You will learn to examine system performance and learn why finding the root cause is critical to longterm performance improvement.

Audience

This class is designed for Maintenance and Reliability Personnel, individuals working to identify the root cause of an Asset Failure.

Pre-requisites

• None

When you complete this course, you will be able to:

• Describe methods to collect failure data effectively.
• Describe analysis tools that can be used to organize data.
• Find root causes by key contributors.
• Focus recommendations on solving root causes.
• Explain the workflow for developing and implementing an RCA.

Duration

• 8 hours

Delivery Format

• Instructor-led Classroom
• Virtual Classroom
• Onsite

Modules and Topics

• Understanding Effective Ways to Collect Failure Data
• Frequently Used Data Types
• Analysis Tools to Organize Data
• Finding Root Causes by Key Contributors
• Focusing Recommendations on Solving Root Causes
• Steps in Development and Implementation of an RCA

• Write output tags using calculations and logic
• Write mode calculations which determines different asset states and runtime
• Write rules for basic condition monitoring
• Write diagnostics to incorporate predictive capabilities in the analytic