2023 Schedule
New Paradigm in Root Cause Failure Analysis for Asset Intensive Industries![]() Presenter: Ron Doucet
Principal, RYKE Reliability Inc.
Description:
Most failures in asset-intensive industries are very specific to the operating context. An effective root cause and failure analysis (RCFA) process cannot be based on templates of cause categories and it must be able to adapt to the specifics of the industry and events. The most important goal of an RCFA process is not to identify the cause, but to prevent the recurrence of the consequence. Simply identifying the cause is less than half of the goal, which is to prevent a recurrence. Although some RCFA processes can adequately identify the causes of the failure, none or almost none have the ability to formally identify the potential cause, and almost none have a process to defensibly identify the actions to address the causes. This presentation establishes new paradigms for the management of failures and will introduce the following: a simple, yet elegant RCFA process that can address and resolve all causes of failures of equipment, work processes, and management systems; an RCFA process that will identify actual and potential causes with the goal of preventing a reoccurrence of the consequence due to actual and potential causes; and an RCFA process that has a clear and defensible decision process to determine the solutions to prevent the consequence of the failures. We will also review the following: all categories of causes of failures and their solutions; reliability centred maintenance principles on which the process is based; the step-by-step process of how to analyze any equipment, work process, or management systems failure; and case studies showing how this process is defensible and enables companies to display due diligence in the prevention of failures and their consequences. About the Presenter:
Ron Doucet is a professional engineer who has been improving the performance of assets, departments, and companies for over 30 years. Doucet always had an intolerance for repetitive failures, and this was one of his primary focuses in every department he worked in or led. In industry, Doucet had the privilege of doing the analyses on how to improve performance and led the implementation and transition to a culture of reliability, in tandem with leading the day-to-day operations. This enabled him to develop real-life and proven methodologies to improve the performance of assets and road maps to improve the performance of asset-intensive businesses. Doucet had the opportunity to be trained by the late John Moubray, the globally recognized expert in RCM and the author of the book RCM II, in which he received an honourable mention based on his successes in RCM and the application of its principles. Doucet is the developer of RCM-based improvement processes, including PMO Pro®, RCS Pro®, and RCFA Pro®, and he developed the process for improving the performance of asset-intensive businesses known as The RYKE Way. In 2010, he set up RYKE Inc., a reliability solutions provider focused on improving the performance of asset-intensive businesses and providing training and mentoring in RCM and RYKE’s improvement processes. Doucet is an active instructor in PEMAC’s MMP program. |