Failure analysis and expert reports
All failures on production facilities or manufactured products (breakage, corrosion, wear, etc.) often lead to a loss of time, operation, and possibly penalties for late delivery. Let us note that, in some cases, consequences arise in safety terms.
A failure, just like a non-conformance in the Quality field, is a setback from which one can draw an advantage to ensure it does not get repeated.
Let us take the example of breakages:
Less than 10% of these have the quality of the material as their origin; now, in most cases you just make do with checking the chemical composition or hardness of the said material. Generally, a broken part is considered for discard; now, the part really represents the result of an involuntary "industrial test" on full scale.
Analysis of the failure will allow for a diagnostic of the true causes as well as for the necessary corrective actions to be set up. Failure analysis is now more than ever a profitable investment as it provides a vehicle for progress.
Failure analysis has constituted our core skill for almost 30 years.
Our highly experienced multidisciplinary team is at your service to analyse failures, draw up reliable diagnostics and thus quickly propose relevant solutions.
Fatigue breakage of a crankshaft
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