top 6 reasons rcfa initiatives fail
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Top 6 Reasons RCFA Initiatives Fail
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Organizations often expend precious resources to train people on root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
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Only to realize very little gain after a brief burst of interest and activity
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How does this happen?
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1. The company treats RCFA as a tool, when it is more of a process.
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Most of the best-practice RCFA processes consist of many steps, often the same steps, albeit sometimes grouped differently.
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2. Companies try to apply specific RCFA methods to all their problems.
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There are many methods – use the one that’s right for the job!
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3. Companies rely on inadequate failure analysis, causing them to fix the wrong problems.
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If you are looking for a lubrication failure root cause when the true failure mode was axial overload, you are unlikely to find an effective solution.
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4. Too many corrective action recommendations.
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Too many, often vague, recommendations are often the equivalent of not admitting “I really don’t know why it failed.”
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5. Poor execution.
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It is frustrating to be called to a site to perform an RCFA for a second failure, when the corrective actions from the RCFA for the first failure have not been implemented.
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6. Ironically, too many RCFAs.
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You realize that you don’t have nearly adequate resources to implement all of those corrective actions. Then comes the collapse. Time for another program of the month!
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So how do you prevent these things from happening?
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Design and implement an effective RCFA process that avoids these common pitfalls and see your production, quality, yield, safety, and cost performance improve. We can help!
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