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Lesson 09·Diagnosis

Failure modes and how to read them

Spalling, delamination, galling, egg-shell collapse. Reading failure surfaces to find root causes rather than chasing symptoms.

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A coated stamping die that ran 200K cycles in Plant A is failing at 40K cycles in Plant B. The die is identical, the coating is identical, the substrate is identical. What's your top suspect, and what would you investigate first?