Welcome to World InterplayTM, LLC
World Interplay provides training services aimed at effective event-based problem resolution. The primary methodology used is Apollo Root Cause Analysis and it’s companion RealityCharting® software.
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You can read more about the philosophy behind World Interplay in the About page.
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You can read more about the classes offered by World Interplay in the Services section of this web site.
What is Apollo Root Cause Analysis?
Apollo Root Cause Analysis, developed by Dean Gano, is a simple, yet powerful methodology for effective problem resolution. At the heart of this methodology is a cause and effect charting tool called a RealityChart. Also used is a companion software tool called RealityCharting® that significantly enhances the process and generates robust reports.
You can read more about Apollo Root Cause Analysis in the About page.
You can see examples of Apollo Root Cause Analysis in our Examples page
Typical Applications
The following examples showing some typical problems where you want to prevent recurrence....
- Injuries or accidents due to defective products
- Personnel injury or accidents
- Delayed, inadequate response to a crisis situation
- Shipment of defective (Non Conforming) products requiring you to contact the customer and perform costly rework
- Late shipments
- Corrective actions required because of process breakdowns
- Loss of an important customer due to a failure to consistently meet their needs
- Lost production due to damaged tooling
- Design/engineering errors
- Lost parts in the factory
- Employee attitude, morale or cultural issues
- Loss of highly qualified, high contributing employees
11/3/08
This major oil spill due to a leaking oil line in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in 2006 is an example of an event based problem. (A combination of events culminated in the oil spill.) In addition to the environmental damage, this was very costly and caused negative publicity.
Our natural tendency is to place blame and to offer "pet" solutions. This approach is rarely effective in the long run.
Unfortunately, our news media sometimes reinforces the need to place blame, further pressuring organizations to deploy solutions before the problem is fully understood.
Use of Apollo Root Cause Analysis helps organizations to see deeper into the problem, and to expose a level of complexity beyond what they initially perceive.
It is only through understanding the complex interaction of causes and effects that effective solutions can be identified and implemented.
See our examples page to better understand Apollo Root Cause Analysis.