Using Fault Trees To Determine The Root Cause Of Rotating Equipment Failures
Abstract
The great value of using multidisciplinary task groups to conduct root cause failure analyses (RCFA) on pump and rotating equipment failures is discussed. The RCFA method offers its users a structured means of achieving continuous plant reliability improvements by targeting mechanical and organizational deficiencies in a process facility. One tool the author has found to be vital in the determination of the root cause (or causes) of rotating equipment failures is the fault tree method. This method provides a simple, graphical means of assessing the evidence collected by the RCFA team and elucidating the most probable failure scenario(s). Included are several real examples of fault trees from the petrochemical industry, involving pumps and other rotating equipment outages.
Description
Tutorialpg. 185
Subject
Pumping machineryCollections
Citation
Perez, Robert X. (1993). Using Fault Trees To Determine The Root Cause Of Rotating Equipment Failures. Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /164218.