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Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom Line Results

by Robert J. Latino, Kenneth C. Latino
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Overview

Undesirable outcomes, chronic failure, incidents, and accidents… The cost of such events to corporations is high, generally adding up to tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in "accepted" losses. Why accept these losses? What if you could understand why these errors occur and eliminate chronic events from occurring altogether?

Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results, Second Edition shows how to identify, understand, and prevent chronic problems that hinder the attainment of organizational goals using Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The PROACT software, voted "Product of the Year" by Plant Engineering Magazine, and the steps outlined in this text teach you how to automate the RCA process. Used effectively, the information in Root Cause Analysis will improve the reliability of your plant assets and save your company precious time and money.

Undesirable outcomes, chronic failure, incidents, and accidents… The cost of such events to corporations is high, generally adding up to tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in "accepted" losses. Why accept these losses? What if you could understand why these errors occur and eliminate chronic events from occurring altogether?Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results, Second Edition shows how to identify, understand, and prevent chronic problems that hinder the attainment of organizational goals using Root Cause Analysis (RCA). In addition, the PROACT software, voted "Product of the Year" by Plant Engineering Magazine, and the steps outlined in this text teach you how to automate the RCA process. Used effectively, the information in Root Cause Analysis will improve the reliability of your plant assets and save your company precious time and money.

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Offering advice for identifying, understanding, and preventing chronic problems in business organizations, this book provides instruction on applying "Root Cause Analysis" to minimize losses. Chapters cover the classification of failure, failure modes and effects analysis, reliability, analysis teams, logic trees, communication findings and recommendations, tracking results, and the use of PROACT version 2.0. Case studies illustrate major points. The authors are consultants. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
April 29, 2002
Publisher
CRC Press Inc
Pages
264
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780849313189

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