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From storksmt.com
What won't work: crossing your fingers, thinking happy thoughts, or wishing really, really hard.
These techniques might be appropriate for a low-stakes bingo game, but they won't help when there's a real problem with your product. Ignoring the root cause of a failure can have large and broad reaching repercussions. Even an isolated problem has ripple effects.
1. Immediate problem for your customer.
2. Scheduling delay for this and other customers.
3. Supply correction.
4. Production capacity adjustment.
5. Recall situation.
6. Back charges.
7. Reputation damage.
8. And the worst case scenario, litigation.
Failure analysis, conducted quickly and properly, can help keep the ripples
in the lower numbers, but how do you know what to look for in a failure analysis?
Stork failure analysts typically investigate a failure in three different ways: fractography, evaluation of the material properties, and assessment of the circumstances of failure and the operating environment. In the majority of cases, using these techniques, Stork scientists can determine the root cause of failure and recommend corrections to prevent future failures.
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