Bob Latino
Principal of Prelical Solutions, LLC and former CEO of Reliability Center, Inc. (RCI), Bob has 38+ years of global experience in Root Cause Analysis (RCA). He’s trained over 10,000 professionals in 25+ countries and co-authored ten books on RCA, FMEA, and Reliability. Bob serves on the Board of the Community of Human and Organizational Learning (CHOLearning), and is Series Editor for CRC Press’s “Reliability, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering” series.
Posts by Bob Latino
The Missing Ingredient in RCA: Willingness to Accept Our Own Faults
Solving Lubrication Degradation Starts with Asking the Right Why
How to Champion Frontline Success for Greater Reliability
The RCA Interview Method That Builds Trust and Gets Honest Answers
Why Components Break: A Logical Look at Common Fatigue Failures
Why Your RCA Effort Is Doomed (Unless You Fix These Issues)
How to Prevent Root Cause Analysis from Becoming a Money Pit
Does High Reliability Automatically Lead to a Safer Workplace?
Boiler Feed Pump Failure: Tracing the Steps of a Forced Outage
Why Reliability Experts Annoy the Rest of the World (Without Even Trying)
How to Recognize Basic Gear Fatigue Failure Patterns
How to Examine Rolling Element Bearings: Prep for Root Cause Analysis
Root Cause Analysis: Cost Center or Profit Driver?
The Four Physical Failure Mechanisms of Component Failure