During a recent visit to a skilled nursing facility, a nurse made an insightful comment that stuck with me: “You can’t unscramble eggs.” This simple yet profound statement highlighted the difficulty ...

Aporia, a machine learning (ML) observability platform, today announced the launch of a tool that aims to ease investigation of production data. The company asserts that its Production Investigation ...

Root-cause analysis is core to problem-solving across many fields. From hospitals searching for patient safety issues to engineers diagnosing faults in complex machinery, finding the source of a ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Dr James Woods, Senior Research Scientist at Jordi Labs, about product failure analysis, and how to determine its root cause. Product failure can occur whenever the ...

A new PCAOB spotlight report provides staff observations regarding the potential positive impact of performing a root cause analysis on the quality of audits performed by PCAOB-registered public ...

When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident ...

In “Managing risky business,” I mentioned that when advice on secure development turns out to be flawed or incomplete, smart organizations learn from their mistakes and update the guidance they issue.

Q: When should the facility conduct a root cause analysis, and when should we conduct a performance improvement plan (PIP)? A: Issues that have the potential to cause harm may prompt a root cause ...

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

The importance of quality control (QC) and monitoring in the digital media supply chain cannot be emphasized enough. The media industry has widely accepted that implementing QC and monitoring is ...