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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

  • Engineer staring into a mirror with root cause analysis diagram on it

    The Missing Ingredient in RCA: Willingness to Accept Our Own Faults

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  • Lubrication Degradation

    Solving Lubrication Degradation Starts with Asking the Right Why

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  • Champion Frontline Success

    How to Champion Frontline Success for Greater Reliability

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  • RCA Interview Method

    The RCA Interview Method That Builds Trust and Gets Honest Answers

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  • Fatigue Failures

    Why Components Break: A Logical Look at Common Fatigue Failures

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  • RCA

    Why Your RCA Effort Is Doomed (Unless You Fix These Issues)

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  • Root Cause Analysis Money Pit

    How to Prevent Root Cause Analysis from Becoming a Money Pit

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  • Safety vs Reliability

    Does High Reliability Automatically Lead to a Safer Workplace?

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  • Boiler Feed Pump Failure

    Boiler Feed Pump Failure: Tracing the Steps of a Forced Outage

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  • Why Reliability Experts Annoy the Rest of the World (Without Even Trying)

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  • How to Recognize Basic Gear Fatigue Failure Patterns

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  • How to Examine Rolling Element Bearings: Prep for Root Cause Analysis

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