We use our knowledge and experience to investigate the underlying causes of why an equipment, or its parts, fail and find solutions that ensure it does not occur again. Nidhix can assist with establishing and implementing an RCA program that supports a sustainable continuous improvement culture for your asset.
Importance of Defect Elimination
Defect Elimination process have two major objectives: preventing catastrophic failures of critical plant production systems and avoiding deviations from acceptable performance levels that result in injury, environmental damage, production loss, or poor product quality. Unfortunately, failure will occur no matter how effective the reliability program is for the organisation. Hence, an effective program must include a process for fully understanding and correcting the root causes that lead to events having an impact on plant operating performance.
Why should I perform Defect Elimination Analysis?
The purpose of Defect Elimination analysis is to resolve problems that affect plant performance. It must not be an attempt to blame for the incident. The DE process involves a structured program to identify, analyse, prioritise, and resolve plant/equipment defects to prevent future occurrence and improve the overall reliability of the operation.
This investigation is not an attempt to fix blame is important for two reasons. Firstly, the investigating team understands that the real benefit of this analytical methodology is plant improvement. Secondly, people involved in the incident will adopt a self-preservation attitude and assume that the investigation is intended to find and punish the person who are responsible for the incident. Hence, it is important for the investigation team to allay this fear and replace it with the positive team effort required to resolve the problem.
Nidhix follows Henley’s eight-step process for defect elimination: