Reliability Engineering Good Practices

The reliability practices are centered around the following principles:

• We identify and fix the root cause of the problem
• We involve the stakeholders in solving the problem
• We give people the tools they need to make good decisions
• We make consistent risk decisions across the facility

Key Reliability Practices

• System Thinking
• Root Cause Analysis
• Problem Solving
• Risk-Based Decision Making
• Reliability Tools and Appropriate Applications

Pareto Analysis

RCM

RAM

Statistical Analysis

The Black Art of Assumption

• Information Gathering (and how to deal with substandard data)
• Where to Focus Reliability Improvement Efforts (follow the money)
• Data Collection (including taxonomy)
• Analysis Paralysis
• Taking Reliability to the Production Line