Failure Analysis, Diagnosis & Systems Improvement
The warranty chain ensures that quality issues are resolved by the appropriate tier in the supply chain and often by more than one tier for a given issue. At Ceram, our experience of working throughout the chain on a wide range of materials performance investigations means that we can deliver both complete solutions and improved process controls.
Analysis of worn or failed components after use or during manufacture serves to both optimise performance and to inform new product development. Thanks to our knowledge of metallurgy in advanced alloys, corrosion, fracture and fatigue diagnosis, we can work with our clients in the automotive and transport industries to analyse failures and, more importantly, provide timely and cost-effective solutions.
At Ceram, we offer:
- lifetime performance evaluation and profiling
- durability evaluation and profiling
- failure analysis and diagnostics
- duty-cycle re-creation and bench evaluation
- fracture, fatigue and rupture diagnosis and microstructure investigation
- optical and electron-microscopy investigation and diagnosis
- surface and bulk microstructure characterisation
- coating characterisation, including diagnosis of delamination or debonding failures and leaching/migration problems
- chemical, physical and thermal testing and analysis
- contamination identification and analysis
- expert witness services.
Development & Sourcing of a New Glass Material for Mansol Preforms
Testing & material trials
Surface Characterisation of Gas Turbines
Ceram assisted Goodrich Corporation with surface analysis of a chromium containing coating.
