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Don't Blame...Reduce Errors
Presented at TAPPI 2007
An article about the persistent pursuit to uncover and understand failure mechanisms that affect paper production.
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RCA Without Verification is Conventional Wisdom
This paper presents techniques of solving problems and avoiding repeated failures.
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RCA Silver Bullet or
Just Plain Coveralls
This article is about attaining optimum root cause analysis results
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Mark Latino
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CURRENT ARTICLE: BURNER BOILER FAILURES - PDF DOWNLOAD
Defining Moments for Reliability
The RCA that Made Me a Believer
Burner Boiler Failure
Mark Latino, President, RCI
"Every reliability professional has a story about when it becomes crystal clear that the Reliability Approach was worth its weight in gold. This is one of my earliest accounts of my “WOW” moment realizing that RCA works and I became a believer".
The burner boilers were supposed to have preventative maintenance performed every three years. In recent years (the last 4 years) the burner boilers had been experiencing unexpected wall tube failures two to four times a year at a cost of about $400,000 per outage or $1,600,000/year per boiler.
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