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Root Cause Analysis Training - Two-day

 

 

 

For Operations Improvement, Manufacturing, Reliability, Sentinel Event, Safety & Health, Quality, Maintenance, Security

Root Cause Analysis Two-day REASON Training is available on your site, at our REASON Training Center, and live on the Internet via WebCast. The training provides personnel with the skills to break down an operations problem into its essential parts, quickly model the system formed by those parts, and analyze the model to identify root causes and best solutions. The methodology identifies both the systemic causes and the appropriate prevention responses to solve counter-quality operations problems. The training is a two-day, structured course designed for individuals with on-the-job problem solving responsibilities: manufacturing and operations quality professionals, safety and reliability engineers, compliance and operations managers, and production supervisors. The training equips attendees with the practical skills to produce objective, concise, accurate, and consistent results required in operations improvement and problem solving analyses.

 

Root Cause Analysis Training:

  1. Provides a standardized, step-by-step, objective method to identify and record the direct, contributing, and root causes of occurrences and counter-quality conditions. Attendees learn a logic-based, standard inquiry process that gets to the heart of breakdowns, safety and health issues, scrap problems, missed schedules, wrong parts, delays, errors . . . all of the things that negatively impact your operation.
     

  2. Provides an objective and structured methodology to model, validate, record, and communicate the cause and effect relationships that are producing problems in the operations of your organization. This is a practical and no nonsense approach that works in the trenches on real operations wastes.
     

  3. Provides an objective method that can be used to formulate and validate action plans. The class teaches how you can demonstrate, before any resources are allocated, that your “solution” will solve the problem.
     

  4. You will learn how to measure how much prevention benefit will be provided by each of your options. That means that you can compare options to pinpoint your most effective option, as well as determine which of your options is the most cost-effective.

Root Cause Analysis Goals for Each Student:

  • Learn, understand, and apply the REASON Causal Patterns and methodology to identify, model, and analyze root causes, contributing causes, and direct causes of operations problems.
     

  • Learn, understand, and apply the REASON principles of organizational control.  Learn how to design into your operation’s programs, policies, and procedures the sustaining controls that produce process improvement.
     

  •  Learn practical strategies and procedures for finding both the pervasive causes that broadly impact operations day-to-day, as well to the critical core causes of events requiring emergency response.

 

Root Cause Analysis Performance Goals 

  1. Learn and apply the REASON logic technique in individual and group problem-solving activity, as demonstrated by the ability to produce accurate causal factor sets from classroom exercise materials.
     

  2. Produce an accurate REASON Analytical Model graphically depicting the causal process, including direct and root causes, as demonstrated by the ability to produce with the REASON software an analytic model of an unwanted event that will pass the application of logical necessary and sufficient testing.
     

  3. Produce accurate and professional decision support documents and reports in order to communicate the most efficient and cost-effective prevention options and action plans, as demonstrated by the ability to generate and explain a quantified REASON Event Model.

 

Root Cause Analysis Technology Transfer

REASON® training introduces conceptual and behavioral classroom goals that produce solid-skills that are directly and immediately transferable to professional analysis and reporting responsibilities. Problems are identified and defined. An objective system for identifying direct causes and root causes is provided. An objective method for determining best control options is provided. An action planning method for determining appropriate action steps is provided. An objective methodology for verifying accuracy and completeness of data is provided. A system of validating the process from investigation through action planning is provided. A  “proactive” method to audit policies for control effectiveness is provided.

Root Cause Analysis Instruction Techniques

 

  • The REASON Root Cause Analysis Training is a comprehensive learning experience:  

  • Group and individual analysis projects provide interactive sharing and reinforcement.

  • Written classroom exercise worksheets practice and test participants on concepts.

  •  Computerized Gaming. Class divides into teams to compete in an entertaining computerized board game that practices the participants in analytical skills.

  •  Role-Playing. Participants practice facilitating the class.

  • Hands-on Practice. The class uses REASON® Software to investigate and analyze occurrences.

  • Interactive dialogue. Lecture and group discussion on key concepts, concerns, and issues.

Root cause analysis information that can help you cost-effectively establish and deploy a meaningful root cause analysis system, contact DECISION systems, inc. (903) 236-9973 or email dsi@rootcause.com

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