Maintenance ManagementRoot Cause Failure Analysis for Maintenance Teams
The same equipment fails the same way repeatedly because each event is closed as a repair, and the question asked is what broke rather than why it broke again. This course changes the question. Delegates work through evidence preservation at the point of failure, which is where most investigations are lost before they start, failure data collection including the parts, conditions and history that must be captured before anything is cleaned up. Analysis techniques follow: the logic tree, five whys and their limits, and physical, human and latent cause layers. Component failure evidence is read directly, since a bearing or a shaft usually shows what happened to it. Corrective action is covered, including verifying that a fix worked. The course closes on which failures deserve an investigation and on the recurrence data that identifies them.
Course objectives
- Preserve evidence at the point of failure before anything is cleaned
- Collect the parts, conditions and history an investigation needs
- Build a logic tree and recognise where five whys stops working
- Separate physical, human and latent causes
- Read failure evidence on a component to establish what happened
- Define corrective action and verify that it worked
- Select which failures justify an investigation using recurrence data
Who should attend
- Maintenance and reliability engineers
- Maintenance supervisors and team leaders
- Quality and continuous improvement professionals
- Production engineers involved in equipment troubleshooting
- Safety professionals investigating equipment related incidents
Course outline
- 01Closed as a repair, repeated next quarter
- 02Evidence preservation at the failure
- 03Data, parts and conditions to capture
- 04Logic trees
- 05Five whys and its limits
- 06Physical, human and latent causes
- 07Reading component failure evidence
- 08Corrective action, verification and selecting failures to investigate
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 to 7 October 2026 | Lagos, Nigeria | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 11 to 13 November 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 2 to 4 December 2026 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 17 to 19 February 2027 | Online | Online | R6,500 per delegate | Register Now |
| 24 to 26 March 2027 | Mbabane, Eswatini | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |