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Root cause analysis (RCA)

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Decision Type: Prevention
Method Category: Assurance, Continuously improve reliability
Categories: Methods

A structured process or procedure to determine the most underlying or fundamental factor or reason for a failure.RCA is used to gather the necessary information to identify suitable short-term and long-term solutions to avoid similar failures in the future.

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