And now for something totally different!
In October we learned about the "soft" side of quality and how to improve effectiveness through Training Within Industry techniques. This month we're going "hard core" with a glimpse into Failure Analysis and the importance of understanding the Physics of Failure when solving problems as Quality Professionals. The analytical instrumentation and disciplined approach of Failure Analysis is similar to what is seen in the popular TV series CSI. Just imagine unleashing a CSI lab on your most challenging quality problems!
This presentation will be technically informative for those working in the quality, manufacturing, design, component, and process engineering disciplines. In addition to discussing failure analysis, we'll see how strategically-applied, proactive analytical work such as construction analysis and destructive physical analysis can provide a competitive advantage by optimizing manufacturing process development and product development and reducing supply chain risk. If you have demanding customers with high quality requirements, risk reduction mandates, and cost reduction pressure, this presentation will be valuable.
Nick Warren manages the ITT Electronic Systems Product Assurance Lab, a world class failure analysis lab located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Nick has spent 25 years in failure analysis, 14 as an engineer and 11 years as manager of a large multi-disciplined staff of engineers and scientists. The ITT Product Assurance Lab charter includes performing analytical work for defense, aerospace, and commercial companies outside of ITT. Nick and his staff have expertise in performing failure analysis on a broad range of components, ranging from mechanical fasteners to microelectronic devices. The Product Assurance Lab is knowledgeable in most industrial manufacturing processes, material science topics, environmentally-assisted failure mechanisms and electronic component failure mechanisms.
Come ready. We're pegging the meter with this one!