Failure Analysis
Prevent malfunctions by doing more than just fixing them.
In order to make a contribution to reliable business operation, it is essential that the maintenance organisation searches for and identifies the main causes of failures. Not just so that repairs can be made, but so that pre-emptive action can be taken to eliminate the cause of the failure.
People are often patted on the back for resolving breakdowns, but this hardly ever happens when they prevent breakdowns and work on eliminating breakdowns in the future. The best way of improving is to learn from failures and ensure that the same failure cannot reoccur in the future. Because prevention is still better than cure, particularly in the case of maintenance.
Root Cause Analyse: for those who do not stop at simply resolving a breakdown, but who also want to identify the cause (of the cause) of a breakdown. In order to eliminate that cause and prevent future failure.
