Root Cause Failure & Prediction Analysis with Solution Generation
Editor (Emma)
Root Cause Failure & Prediction Analysis with Solution Generation
Root Cause Failure & Prediction Analysis with Solution Generation – Day 1: Root Cause Failure Analysis
Introductory Concepts: Understand the basics behind the root cause theories, system ideality (system value) and how system value can only be advanced by root cause resolution.
Root Cause Analysis principles
Understanding the Problem: The first and most important step in any problem-solving methodology
Systems versus Component Failures
Ideality and system value as driven by the continuous improvement of failure analysis
Class Exercise: Write Ideal Final Result statements for existing commercial or industry challenges
Case Study
Identifying Potential Failure Causes
Understand the Strengths and Limitations of:
Fault tree analysis
The 5-Why’s technique
Ishikawa diagrams
Flow charting
FMEA
Cause and Effect Chain (CEC): Learn how to use the most effective and versatile root cause analysis tool.
Introduction
Known versus theoretical issues
CEC construction
And/or relationships
Root causes
Class Exercise: Build a practice CEC of your choice
FMEA: Learn how to merge CEC and FMEA functionality to accelerate time to solution
Group Project Work: Create a CEC for your team project
Root Cause Failure & Prediction Analysis with Solution Generation – Day 2: Root Cause Failure Analysis (continued)
Functional Analysis: Learn the most powerful technique for fully understanding a complex system’s operation and how it will help you capture and understand all potential failure modes
Functional language
Component analysis
Interaction analysis
Functional Modeling (FM)
Class Exercise: Build a practice FM of your choice
Orchestration of Functional Modeling and CECs: Understand how CECs and FMs are directly related and augment each other
Class Exercise: Coordinating your Class Exercise CECs and FMs (what did you miss on your CEC exercise and what did you miss on your FM exercise)
System Trimming: Learn how to increase your system’s value while reducing the system componentry, thereby reducing failure modes, maintenance requirements and system costs
Class Exercise: Trim your practice FM to increase the represented system’s value
Group Project Work: Create an FM for your team project
Failure Anticipation Analysis: Learn how to predict system failures and understand if they are possible or not based on understanding the available system resources
Contradiction Analysis: Understand the fundamental requirements for innovative system advancements which increase system value and reduce failure modes.
What are Contradictions and why are they important?
Contradiction modeling
Group Project Work: Develop contradiction statements from problem areas in your group project FM and for the roots of your CEC
Root Cause Failure & Prediction Analysis with Solution Generation – Day 3: Solution Generation
Innovation Design Principles: Learn powerful principles for resolving system contradictions that are derived from an empirical study of over four million worldwide patents
Introduction to the 40 Principles
Choosing the correct principles
Applying the principles
Resource Analysis (for solutions): Understand how to look for locally available resources in support of solution generation
Class Exercise: Save the passengers of the Titanic
Technically Focused Brainstorming: How to eliminate this methodology’s weak points while leveraging its strengths
Group Project Work: Apply the selected 40 Principles to the resolution of your group project FM and CEC contradictions
Smart Little People: Learn a powerful empathy technique to support solution generation and design
Class Exercise: Utilize the Smart Little People technique on one of the contradiction statements you have developed
Solution Evaluation Techniques: Learn a simple technique to effectively judge solution concepts against term and quality
Course Wrap-up: Course recap, Q/A, participant project reports, evaluation and feedback, and directions for future study
