Root Cause/Failure Analysis

Root cause/failure analysis analysis serves as an eye opener towards the reason for failure of a component. Proper analysis and correct establishment of failure/root cause avoids future recurrence of similar failure.

Normally, failure of a component could be due to:

• Raw material defects
• Defects arising in manufacturing/fabrication
• Failure due to operational issues

A thorough analysis of failed component will aid in establishing the correct failure cause. Root cause of the failure needs a comprehensive review of direct cause and underlying causes. Once root cause is found out, then proper recommendations can be assigned to responsible individual/team with a target date to accomplish the recommended task. Root cause analysis need a multi-disciplinary team and shall follow a structured approach.

Our professionals have performed numerous root cause/failure analysis and successfully recommended preventive and corrective actions, avoiding recurrence of similar failures. Our failure analysis employ various tools and techniques such as visual inspection, stereo microscopy, hardness measurement, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) – energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) etc.