Podcast Episode 14: Failure Analysis Case Studies

In this episode I discussed two failure analysis projects I worked on. I also discussed the two sets of circumstances when failure analysis is performed and the differences in how the failure analysis is carried out between the different circumstances.

The first example involves failure and root cause analysis of a manufacturing problem. The second example is for a faucet that leaked and caused over $100,000 damages to a building.

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Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E., is President of Industrial Metallurgists and a metallurgical engineering consultant with more than 30 years of experience in product design, manufacturing, failure analysis, and metallurgy training. He helps clients worldwide solve design and manufacturing problems and is the author of Materials Enabled Designs.

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