Austin– August 1-3 – 3-Day Equifactor® Troubleshooting & TApRooT® RCA

Become professionally trained in Austin on August 1-3 with TapRooT® Instructor Mark Olson; gain expertise from the 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course and the 1-Day Equifactor® Course.

Your course venue Information: Embassy Suites by Hilton, 300 S. Congress Avenue, in Austin, TX 78704.

You have three choices for these courses in Austin:

• Register here for 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training, August 1-2.
• Register here for the 1-Day Equifactor® Training Course, August 3.
• Register here for the 3-Day Course: 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training, August 1-2, + the 1-Day Equifactor® Training, August 3.

A. The 2-Day TapRooT® RCA Training Course, August 1-2

The 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course focuses on the essential TapRooT® Techniques needed to investigate low-to-medium risk incidents and precursor incidents. Our 5-Step investigation Process simplifies TapRooT® to make the investigation efficient yet effective. The training focuses on understanding what happened, identifying Causal Factors, analyzing the Causal Factors using the Root Cause Tree®, and developing effective fixes using the Corrective Action Helper® Guide.

B. The 1-Day Equifactor® Training Course, August 3

Our 1-Day Equifactor® Troubleshooting Course is for people who need to find and fix the reasons that equipment failed YESTERDAY.

Do you need to improve your facility’s equipment reliability? Imagine the downtime prevented and money saved NOT having repeat equipment failures. If this sounds interesting (and worthwhile), then this course is for you.

Equifactor® Techniques are based on the work of the late equipment reliability expert Heinz Bloch.

Learn how to use Equifactor® to troubleshoot equipment issues and find out what is leading to failures. Then, develop effective fixes to stop future equipment failures.

C. Course Outline (2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis + Equifactor®)

Repeat equipment issues? Investigations keep finding that human errors drive most equipment failures and you don’t know what to do about it?  Firing people isn’t an option: we can’t find anyone to replace them. Blame never fixes problems anyways. If you want to remove the real root causes of equipment failure and build true reliability into your systems, this is the right course for you!

This course is for accident investigators, maintenance teams, operators, quality specialists, and managers who need to get operations back up and running yesterday AND prevent it from happening again. We focus on the techniques needed to investigate low-to-medium risk incidents and precursor incidents. Our 5-step investigation process emphasizes TapRooT® makes investigations efficient yet effective. Training focuses on

• Understanding what happened and troubleshooting using tools like Equifactor®
• Identifying and analyzing Causal Factors using the Root Cause Tree® and Root Cause Tree® Dictionary and
• Developing effective fixes using the Corrective Action Helper® Guide.

Equifactor® Techniques are based on the work of the late equipment reliability expert Heinz Bloch, and the TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis System was developed by Mark Paradies, founder of System Improvements.

Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting and TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training

Do you need to efficiently and effectively find the root causes of equipment failures to improve your facility’s equipment reliability? Imagine the downtime prevented and money saved, NOT having repeat equipment failures. If this sounds interesting (and worthwhile), then this completely revised TapRooT´® Equifactor® course is for you.

The Equifactor® Techniques are based on the work of noted equipment reliability expert Heinz Bloch. The tools can be used by maintenance personnel, equipment reliability specialists, maintenance managers, or investigators who don’t have an extensive understanding of equipment engineering.

Contact us to discuss training your employees on-site. You may also call us at 865.539.2139 to speak to an instructor, schedule an executive briefing, or book on-site training for your team. We’re here to find solutions for you.