Do you need to efficiently and effectively find the root causes of equipment failures to end your unplanned outages?
Is your equipment reliability program basically a fire department?
Does an economic downturn mean that only best-in-class performers survive?
Imagine the downtime prevented and money saved by using true first-time fixes and NOT having repeat equipment failures. If this sounds interesting (and worthwhile), then Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting & TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis is for you.
Equifactor® Troubleshooting Techniques are based on the work of the late equipment reliability expert Heinz Bloch and capture how Best-in-Class Performing organizations think differently about their equipment and systems.
In three days, you will learn:
- How to use Equifactor® Troubleshooting Tables to fix equipment failures
- Going beyond troubleshooting to find the real, fixable root causes of failures
- Maintenance and operational best practices
- Holistic, proactive system reliability techniques to ELIMINATE the reasons (plural) equipment failures occur
The tools you will learn include:
- Equifactor Troubleshooting Tables – a proven guide to resolving equipment issues. Use data, not assumptions.
- Troubleshooting Strategy – create a plan to capture all symptoms and potential causes while preserving data.
- Failure Modes/Agents – Learn the four ways physical parts fail. Build clear narratives; failures rarely occur in isolation.
- Custom Tables – Equifactor® works best with custom tables. If none exist, build them to capture your machine experts’ knowledge, create clear training documents for new troubleshooters, and cut troubleshooting time in half by structuring the process.
- Proactive Improvement – Solutions should prevent recurrence. Address failures so problems stay fixed.
- Change Analysis – Compare current and past performance to identify what’s different and clarify how failures occur.
- Root Cause Tree Diagram – Identify root causes of equipment failures, including those involving people.
- Developing Effective Fixes – Use the Corrective Action Helper® Guide to create practical solutions to root causes.
Equifactor® Troubleshooting equips maintenance technicians, equipment reliability specialists, maintenance managers, and non-equipment expert investigators with practical tools to boost equipment performance and reliability. By mastering these best-in-class questions and techniques, you’ll strengthen your expertise and stand out in your field.
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Course Agenda
| Day 1 (7 Hours) |
Day 2 (7 Hours) |
- Class Introductions and TapRooT® Instruction
- SnapCharT® Basics – Understanding What Happened
- Failure Modes and Failure Agenda
- Equifactor® Tables
- Troubleshooting Strategy and Exercise
- Troubleshooting Techniques
- Identify Final Exercise – SnapCharT®
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- Causal Factors
- Root Cause Tree®
- Root Cause Tree® Walkthrough
- Root Cause Tree® Exercise
- Proactive Equifactor®
- Final Exercise – SnapCharT® and Causal Factors
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- Corrective Actions – Developing Fixes
- Putting It All Together – Reporting
- Root Cause Tree®
- Corrective Actions
- Reporting and Presentation
- Final Exercise – Presentations
- FAQs
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The course materials include:
- the book Using Equifactor® Troubleshooting Tools and TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis to Improve Equipment Reliability
- TapRooT® Root Cause Tree® Diagram
- Root Cause Tree® Dictionary
- Corrective Action Helper® Guide
These resources offer actionable guidance and a comprehensive set of Heinz Bloch’s troubleshooting tables to support your ongoing success (total value $129.95.)
When you complete the course, you’ll receive a certificate and a 90-day subscription to TapRooT® VI Software. This dynamic, cloud-based platform streamlines both Equifactor® and TapRooT® Techniques, enabling immediate application and sustained improvement.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): When completing a 3-Day Virtual course, receive 18 credit hours for the 3-Day VIRTUAL Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting and TapRooT® Training Course. These hours can be applied to your certifying institution for credit hours/CEUs.
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Course Guarantee for 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis
Attend this course, go back to work, and use what you have learned to analyze accidents, incidents, near-misses, equipment failures, operating issues, or quality problems. If you don’t find root causes that you previously would have overlooked and if you and your management don’t agree that the corrective actions that you recommend are much more effective, just return your course materials and we will refund the entire course fee.
