In difficult economic circumstances such as we are exposed to presently, Maintenance’s role should turn towards achieving short term gain.

One of the methods that can achieve this best is Root Cause Analysis.

Maintenance should presently focus on the identification of those occurrences that causes short term losses, with the objective of eliminating them permanently.

These occurrences include failure, maintenance quality problems, workmanship problems, supervisory problems, etc.

Maintenance Practitioners are generally exposed to a work environment that abounds with problem situations.

These include problems emanating from a diverse and complex spectrum of sources, which includes operational problems, failure-related problems, design problems, purchasing problems, stock-keeping problems and personnel problems.

Failure Root Cause Analysis is a specific problem area of high importance.

Although this course builds skills to deal with problems in general, its main aim is to equip course participants with sufficient skills for Root Cause Analysis, including finding and implementing suitable means to eliminate such root cause permanently.

The typical Maintenance Practitioner is not equipped for handling these, sometimes complex, problem situations.

This often leads to sub-optimal decisions, wrong designs (especially in the case of modifications), wrong solutions to persistent failure situations, and severe negative effects when plans do not work out as they should.

The present course is aimed at equipping the Maintenance Practitioner to deal effectively with these situations.

The accent of the course is on practical application through group work using the techniques learnt to internalise the methodology thoroughly.

For this purpose, the number of entrants to the course is limited.