Reliability engineer and maintenance technician comparing an engineering drawing with evidence from an opened industrial pump
Reliability Factory / Solutions / Root Cause Analysis
AI-powered Root Cause Analysis

Stop spending months hunting for the cause.

AI connects the evidence. An engineer challenges the causal chain and signs it.

Inputs

Bring the evidence out of timelines, systems and people's heads.

We agree the minimum evidence needed to test plausible causes.

Event

Sequence and symptoms

Event chronology, alarms, operating changes, process conditions, symptoms, inspections and immediate response.

History

Asset and work context

Prior failures, work orders, maintenance changes, condition trends, modifications and repeat interventions.

Evidence

Documents and people

Manuals, procedures, drawings, photographs, lab results, interviews and existing hypotheses.

AI-connected evidence

The RCA becomes a traversable chain.

Every step stays linked to the evidence for and against it.

EventSymptomFailure modeMechanismCauseConsequenceAction
EventP-204 forced outage
SymptomRising vibration and temperature
MechanismAccelerated bearing wear
CauseLubrication delivery degraded under duty
ActionDesign control + task update · validation pending
Workflow

A disciplined RCA, with the manual grind compressed.

AI retrieves and connects. It never replaces hypothesis testing.

01

Scope the event

Set the problem statement, boundaries, impact and investigation team.

02

AI maps the evidence

Connect timelines, records, signals, observations and source documents.

03

Navigate causal paths

Relate symptoms to modes, mechanisms, contributing conditions and causes.

04

Engineer tests hypotheses

Challenge support, contradiction, gaps and confidence for each proposition.

05

Approve actions

Validate the causal chain and assign corrective actions, owners and checks.

Deliverables

A decision package your team can inspect.

The reasoning stays visible, from event to action.

  • Validated problem statement and event timeline
  • Evidence register with source lineage
  • Tested causal chain and rejected hypotheses
  • Contributing factors and uncertainty register
  • Corrective action plan with owners and verification
  • Engineer-reviewed RCA report and graph view
What remains connected

The next investigation starts with accumulated plant knowledge.

The reviewed causal model and its evidence stay in Factory Brain. Recurrence gets recognized.

  • Event and symptom pattern
  • Confirmed and rejected causes
  • Evidence and source links
  • Known failure mechanisms
  • Actions and verification status
  • Engineer approval record
Human validation

AI maps the evidence. Engineers own the conclusion.

Every deliverable is engineer-reviewed. Final approval on safety and plant changes stays with you.

R//Safe Never trains a public model Source-linked outputs Engineer-validated You keep the knowledge
Weeks, not months

Resolve one failure without losing months to the search.

Bring the event, the evidence and the people who know the equipment.

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