Root Cause Analysis

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  1. Fill in the blank: Failures represent _____ and
    __ in our manufacturing system and may involve
    safety and environmental events, interruption of production, and
    damage or destruction of property.

  2. True or False: The best tool is the one that identifies all of the true
    root causes with the least amount of effort.
    Answer: ____

  3. Give one tool that may be most effective for events that are time
    based or involve sequential events.
    Answer: ____

  4. Give one tool that may be most effective for events that have one
    problem but potentially many solutions.
    Answer: ____

  5. Which method of RCA is one of the most basic tools available and is
    commonly used?
    Answer: ____

  6. Similar to Five but the change in the question asked results in multiple
    potential answers rather than limiting it to one.
    Answer: ____

  7. This method of RCA is similar to the Five Why method but identifies
    the root causes by asking How Can in place of Why. The change in the


question asked results in multiple potential answers rather than
limiting it to one.
Answer: ____________________


  1. This method of RCA works well in systems in which faulty events can
    be linked to all possible contributing factors such as equipment
    failures and design reviews. This method looks for actions and
    conditions.
    Answer: ____

  2. This tool is NOT for complex/complicated root cause events, because
    it only identifies one root cause. It is best utilized on the shop floor for
    gathering immediate data.
    Answer: ____

  3. This basic tool displays the relationship between various factors that
    contribute to a specific event. It can help as pre-work, as a
    brainstorming tool to develop causes for the fault or logic tree
    analysis methods.
    Answer: ____

  4. What are the 6M’s in Cause and effect method?
    Answer: ____

  5. Fill in the blank: The method that identifies likely modes of failure,
    occurrence frequency and detection mechanisms for a given system,
    in a top-down approach is called ____.

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