Root Cause Failure Analysis: A Guide To Improve Plant Reliability

This book presents a clear understanding of the degradation mechanisms that process equipment could be subjected to over their operating life, how to identify, predict, and determine their impact, and presents appropriate measures can be taken to prevent and control the resultant damage. The book also describes how proper design, operation, and maintenance of the equipment help to enhance their reliability and provides the reader with the knowledge and failure analysis skills they need to know to prevent similar failures from happening in future.

Topics Covered include defining what Root Cause Analysis is, Analysis Techniques for Root Cause Failure Analysis, 5-Why RCFA Method, Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis, Method for Finding Root cause of Failure, Corrective Action, and case studies