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How do you reuse lessons learned from previous RCAs?
10+ years in semiconductor and automotive. Every plant I’ve worked in has the same problem.
Team does a solid 8D.
Real root cause found.
Corrective action works.
Report gets filed somewhere.
Everyone moves on.
18 months later, same failure shows up. Different line, different shift, or same line but the engineer who did the original RCA left the company. New team starts from zero. Nobody knows the old report exists. It’s buried in SharePoint, folder, db but which makes really difficult to find similar ones.
Do your engineers actually search old RCAs before starting a new one? Has anyone found something that actually works?
u/Able_Independent_120 — 4 days ago