Failure analysis is a technical discipline — but every investigation has a backstory. Organizational pressure. Contested evidence. Inconvenient conclusions. These are the cases: what the data showed, what it couldn't show, and what it cost to say so.
Case Files
FA-005 · Diagnostic Adapter · Industrial Equipment
The Record Shows
The risk was identified, documented, and communicated before launch. It was overruled. The failure arrived on schedule. The people who predicted it became the answer to the question of who was responsible.
FA-004 · Semiconductor · Mobile Device
No Fault Found
A Weibull trend, a located short, a supplier report that said EOS on everything, and a bench that never reproduced it. The investigation found where the failure was. Not what caused it.
FA-003 · Wireless Device · Personal Injury
Do Not Microwave
Severe thermal damage, no conventional energy source, a burned hand, and a hypothesis nobody wanted to say out loud. Replicated in twenty seconds.
FA-002 · Mechanical Switch · Consumer Hardware
The Dent
Seven teams, one switch, and a fracture pattern too consistent to be random. The answer was in the assembly. The argument continued anyway.
FA-001 · Micro USB · Consumer Electronics
The Adapter Nobody Blamed
Three labs, one damaged connector, and a foldback curve nobody thought to measure. The connector was the victim. The investigation almost missed what wasn't.