RCA
Case Studies and Stories
RCA: Going From Good to Great
In this paper, I would like to remove the RCA provider brand labels, and delve into ‘What makes any RCA effort, good versus great?” When we remove the labels and look at any investigative occupation, all the steps are basically the same.
- Robert Latino
- Prelical Solutions
The Leadership Connection
Episode 16: Scott Brown
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Scott Brown in Episode 16 of this series. Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Five Minute Facts
How Do We Know When We Need To Conduct An RCA?
It’s a question that gets asked a lot – “How do we know when we need to conduct an RCA”? The answer is by using RCA triggers. An RCA trigger is something that can be used to prompt us to conduct an RCA if the outcome of an event breaches a specific threshold. Conversely it also lets us know when we do not have to conduct an RCA based on the event not breaching a specific threshold.
- Tim Rice
- The Defect Elimination Project
Two Minute Tips
Root Cause Analysis: Maximize Effectiveness Through Accountability
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is great tool, but only if you know when and how to use it.....
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
Case Studies and Stories
Major Global Oil & Gas Producer Improves Speed, Quality, and Cost of Maintenance Builds
A super-major oil and gas producer’s capital-project maintenance builds were costing too much and taking too long using a traditional maintenance-build approach, and the resulting maintenance strategies were of poor quality. The company was experiencing continual overspending, missed deadlines, and maintenance strategies that didn’t deliver the performance and reliability the operations team needed from the asset base...
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
Two Minute Tips
Driving a Reliability Culture
In this article, we explore why the common approach to building a reliability culture – by focusing on mindset, and values – isn’t enough. While this focus will yield some improvement, two critical elements that can drive cultural change are missing, A clear purpose and reliability framework..
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
