Failure analysis is the scientific process of determining the root cause of a failure. It is often related to equipment breakdown with varying levels of consequence, from loss of production, to ...

Each phase of a project has unique failure signature patterns. Just like the bathtub curve in Figure 2, we see more “failures” in the initial design, development and early production “ramp up” phase.

One of the biggest changes in the 2020 FCPA Resource Guide, 2nd edition, is the addition of a new Hallmark, entitled, Investigation, Analysis, and Remediation of Misconduct, which reads in full: The ...

Nothing is more frustrating for a fleet than bringing a truck back to a shop for a recurring problem. Given the cost of downtime, fleets expect repairs to be made correctly the first time. Yet, there ...

Over 50% of frontend ASIC hardware engineering time is spent on debugging and root cause analysis, spent churning through millions of lines of code and terabytes of waveform data. Despite this, there ...

Product failure can take place whenever the requirements for a product, or a provisional product, are not achieved through the usual manufacturing method. Examples include issues like product ...

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Root cause failure analysis (RCFA) addresses a problem that has appeared in a previously stable environment. Although this technique is most often applied to a production environment, the principles ...