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Reliability Studies & Root Cause Analysis are both quantitative
cause-effect processes employed to identify not symptoms but rather the true
“root cause”. Both methods should be
considered standard tools for any industrial maintenance “toolbox”.
A Reliability Study (RS) is generally applied
to problematic systems with the goal of increasing component, asset and/or
system reliability through enhanced maintenance practices or operating
procedures. Reliability Studies are an economic alternative to time
consuming and expensive Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA), and often
achieve equally advantageous results.
Alternatively, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is
an important tool in determining, post-incidence, the underlying most basic
reason for an event, incident or failure. Employing RCA post-incidence is
perhaps most important where a safety issue exists. By properly employing
an RCA study, maintenance and operating procedures can be revised, unsafe
conditions corrected or catastrophic failure can be permanently avoided
because the underlying most basic reason will have been identified.
Reliability Studies and Root Cause Analysis
are both available through M&B on a contract basis.
Please contact us
for further information. |
