Over the past twenty years, PII has performed more than 5000 equipment failure root cause analyses. With this depth of experience and and equipment failure modes information accumulated from long-term clients, we are able to maintain one of the largest data bases on how and why equipment fails, for more than 112 different types of equipment. PII’s equipment root cause investigators are familiar with all possible failure modes for both electrical and mechanical equipment – PII has identified over 540 such failure modes! PII’s critical component management approach has yielded substantial equipment reliability improvements for our clients; in many cases, failure rates have been reduced by more than a factor of 10.
Leveraging this deep knowledge base, PII has developed comprehensive training courses on root cause and failure mode analysis. Our training covers both mechanical equipment failures as well as electrical and I&C failures. Methods for detection and correction of intermittent failures such as electrical noise interference are covered in the course.
PII has trained more than 12,000 equipment root cause analysts internationally. With skills derived from PII’s training, students have made significant contributions to both the prevention of repeat events and to the overall improvement of equipment reliability at their respective facilities. Many of our former students currently hold key management and executive positions in large corporations.
