Root Cause Analysis

Introduction

The Root Cause Analysis or RCA (Root Cause Analysis), acronym of the term English widely used, it is essential for a methodology that industrial maintenance can leave harmful reactive mode. To better understand what is so reactive, think of the situation where staff maintenance is occupied full time to repair the equipment break randomly. In this mode, the maintenance staff is always overloaded, working under the constant pressure of having to repair equipment to replace the plant in operation, another term commonly used to describe this situation is just work to erase fires. In this way, maintenance costs are in addition to elevated virtually unpredictable (Brabham, 2008).

There is constant tension between maintenance and operation for maintenance is always seen as a great villain that prevents operation to meet its production program and, in addition, accounts for a considerable portion of the operating costs. Recalling the research method employed by Sherlock Holmes, similarly need to investigate the problem or event unwanted, and the evidence collected should be categorized under one of the above categories. This classification is very useful in the later stages of the process both for documentation and for data management (Tilly, 2008).

Discussion

To exemplify and keeping the analogy to a criminal investigation, imagine that a crime has occurred and starts the investigation. Police routinely isolate the area where the crime seeking to preserve intact the scene crime (Position). Collect parts that can help in solving the case using gloves and tweezers and store these parts in bags suitable identified with labels (Parties). Also part of this process the search of possible witnesses and subsequent interviews with the same (People). The police also search through your files information suspect, possible passages by police, involvement with crime, occupation, financial status, documentation, etc. (Paper). Finally, from interviews with observers delineate conclusions on the situation such as: The boy who lives in this house, apparently does not work or study. Every night several cars stop in front of the house and simply honk, the boy snuck out of the house and meets rapidly and plucks cars at high speed after a few minutes. We believe he is a drug dealer paradigm (Aken, Berends, & Van, 2012).

These paradigms that people has on certain situations are important because the same believe them and thus make decisions based on them. One of the methodologies used to identify the possible causes the problem is the tree Causes which can be considered a simplified method known as Fault Tree Analysis or FTA (Fault Tree Analysis). The FTA is a logical method aimed at quantitative identify combinations of failures in equipment or components a system or human error which may result in an event or accident. The tree causes in turn is a qualitative and not used logical symbolism (Nock, & Mendes, 2008).

In summary, the development of the tree is to determine the causes called Main Event that is the problem or undesired event that is under ...