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Defect Elimination

Fix it forever.
Stop forever fixing.

The Road to Reliability™
is full of defects

Even when you set out to improve the reliability of your plant you’ll continue to experience failures in your plant. We know from experience that some 80% of failures that occur in a plant have occurred before. That’s where defect elimination comes in.

What happens in most organisations that deal with repeat failures? We plan for these failures. We write job plans. We hold extra spares. And when the failure happens we can fix it fast. We get better and better at fixing failures.

That’s great, right?

Maybe. Chances are that you could be a lot greater if instead of fixing that failure over and over again you actually fixed the source of the failure. If you fixed the defect that is causing that failure.

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50% of performance problems in power industry were associated with maintenance​
in 80% of in-flight engine shutdowns maintenance ​was a contributing factor

You will get nowhere on the Road to Reliability™
without Defect Elimination

Ever wondered why you can’t stop the fire fighting?

Research done by Winston Ledet whilst working for Dupont in the 1990s has shown that when you implement Planning & Scheduling, Preventive Maintenance and Defect Elimination you can reduce your downtime by 90%.

About 30% of that reduction in downtime is because of Planning & Scheduling and Preventive Maintenance. And about 60% is the result of Defect Elimination.

Simply put, you’ll never become a Reliable Plant if you don’t get rid of those defects that keep generating failures.

You will always be fighting fires and working in a reactive environment unless you get rid of those defects.

Implementing Planning & Scheduling on its own is not enough. Implementing Preventive Maintenance on its own is not enough. Even implementing both is not enough.

You need to start applying Root Cause Analysis and establish a Defect Elimination culture to make big strides in improving your reliability.

Online training courses that teach your team
how to implement Defect Elimination & Root Cause Analysis

Developing & Improving Preventive Maintenance Programs

Learn the powerful principles of Defect Elimination and Root Cause Analysis and how both are essential on your journey to higher reliability.  

We offer a suite of courses on Defect Elimination & Root Cause Analysis tailored for those leading an implementation (DE100), practitioners like reliability engineers or supervisors (DE200), managers (DE300), and frontline staff like Operators and Technicians (DE400).

100% online. Take the course anywhere, anytime

Because the course is delivered via a 100% online, web-based learning management system you can truly take this course anywhere in the world, any time of the day.

Practical training complete with tools & templates

To ensure you succeed where many have failed in the past we teach you a proven and comprehensive framework for implementing Defect Elimination & Root Cause Analysis.

We want you not just to enjoy this course, you need to get a real return on your investment – and that requires implementation!

Lifetime access

You don’t just get 2 days of classroom training and a bunch of slides.

You can watch the pre-recorded training videos as much as you want, whenever you want, and yes, you also get access to all future updates.

Defect Elimination improves
plant reliability more than anything else

With the Road to Reliability™ Framework you can reduce your downtime by 90%. And although you need all 4 Essential Elements to succeed the majority of your downtime reduction will come through Defect Elimination.

In this article, I will explain in detail why you need to apply Root Cause Analysis and establish a Defect Elimination culture to succeed in your journey to a Reliable Plant.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Defect Elimination are similar, but not the same. Root Cause Analysis focusses on getting rid of the 20% of issues that cause 80% of your breakdowns, downtime and costs.

Defect Elimination is all about removing the many small, niggly little issues in your plant. And it’s very much a culture change. In this article, I explain how Root Cause Analysis and Defect Elimination work together and what it looks like in a Reliable Plant.

Knowing that Root Cause Analysis and Defect Elimination are critical to your reliability success is one thing. Implementing them successfully and sustaining the change in the long run is a very different story.

In this article, I will give you a detailed step-by-step implementation guide that adresses both RC techniques as well as building a Defect Elimination culture.

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