Empowering Women in STEM

1 The Application of an Effective Root Cause Analysis to Any STEM Discipline

Robert J. Latino

Prelical Solutions, LLC, United States of America

DOI: 10.1201/9781003336495-2

Contents

1. 1.1 My Personal Story about Growing Up in a Reliability Household
2. 1.2 How This Experience Helped Me Raise My Daughter
3. 1.3 A Fifth Grader’s RCA on Bullying
4. 1.4 Getting into the Weeds about Defining ‘What Is a Root Cause Analysis?’
   • 1.4.1 Introducing the Logic Tree
5. 1.5 Fundamentals of a Logic Tree
6. 1.6 Bringing PROACT RCA Thinking into a Manufacturing Plant
7. About the Author

This chapter is going to focus on the ‘BASICS’ of how to apply an effective root cause analysis (RCA) approach to any undesirable outcome. However, we are sticking to the fundamentals just like ...