Defect Elimination
Some 80% of the failures in your plant have happened before. Most teams respond by getting very good at fixing them fast. Defect elimination removes the defect causing the failure, so you stop fixing the same thing over and over.
Fixing versus eliminating
Run structured root cause analysis on the failures that keep coming back, instead of treating each one as new.
Implement corrective actions that remove the defect, and verify the fix actually holds.
Build a defect elimination culture. Hundreds of small defects removed by the whole team beat any single improvement project.
Going deeper
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Online training
DE100The DE100 course gives maintenance and reliability teams a practical, repeatable defect elimination process and the root cause analysis techniques to support it. It is the same approach high-performing plants use to cut repeat failures and free up capacity for proactive work.
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