Suggested Attendees: experienced industry personnel seeking top-quartile, hands-on, training to fully understand the concepts and theories of Root Cause Failure Analysis. This 2-day advanced Carver workshop will provide students with a practical interactive approach enabling them to see firsthand the value of monitoring, identifying, documenting and implementing improvements for equipment, processes or human failures (RCM facilitation).

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and implement Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCA)

2. Learn and practice how to implement an four-step RCA process

· Data Collection and Analysis

· Apply 1 of 8 RCA Methods

· Root Cause Identification

· Recommendation Generation and Implementation

3. Apply Root Cause Analysis Methodology such as:

· 8D’s

· Casual Factor Charting

· Barrier Analysis

· Cause-and-Effect Diagram (Fishbone)

· Cause-and-Effect Matrix

· 5 Whys

· A3

· APOLLO

4. Learn difference between RCA and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

5. Learn how to implement the FMEA process

6. Practice auditing FMEA using the quality objectives

7. Practice analyzing a failure and determining root causes

8. 8 Steps of RCA

RCA 303 is a Core Course for the: Reliability Specialist Certificate & Commissioning Specialist Certificate
RCA 303 is a valuable course when taken with TSPS 201 Process Troubleshooting & Problem Solving