Failure Investigation & Expert Witness
Equipment failure is generally unexpected, can pose serious risks to safety and can lead to a wide range of costs and interruptions. We can help you understand the failure, mitigate the consequences and prevent recurrence.
What makes us leaders in Failure Investigation?
- Customer focused – providing the solution you need in the form you want it
- Independence
- Breadth of experience built over many years
- Authority and reputation
- Trained to deliver evidence in court
- Qualified to the highest standards
- World class analytical facilities
- Flexibility- rapid response to international locations – work on site and in the lab
Understanding the failure
Our team can provide answers in terms of anything from a simple component failure analysis through to a detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Typical steps in an investigation might include:
- Site inspection soon after the event, anywhere in the world
- Interviewing operating personnel/other witnesses
- Gathering of information, photographs and records
- Laboratory-based forensic inspection of components
- Detailed mechanical, process or electrical simulation studies (e.g. Finite Element Analysis)
Mitigating the consequences
We can provide support to operators, insurers or loss adjusters to help minimise cost and
business interruption:
- Acting as a technical representative during remedial works
- Providing QA advice when dealing with suppliers
- Ensuring proposed repairs or replacements are fit for purpose
- Helping to understand the origins of damage and interruptions
Preventing recurrence
Avoiding a repeated loss is the true aim of any failure investigation. Many failures have a human factor root cause. We use Root Cause Analysis methodology to help:
- Identify the primary causes which led to the failure
- Develop strategies to reduce or eliminate these causes
- Produce practicable and economic recommendations
- Work with the client to implement these recommendations
- Provide training tailored to the client’s needs
Key Services
- Mechanical Failure Analysis
- Electrical Failure Analysis
- Electronics Failure Analysis
- Gas Turbine Failure Analysis
- Expert Witness Consultancy
- Analytical Services and SEM
Typical industries we support
- Power Generation
- Power Distribution
- Mass transport/freight
- Large scale industrial
- Aerospace manufacturing
- Automotive, motorsport
- Consumer electronics and electrical
- IT and telecommunications
- Built environment
- Infrastructure, e.g. Hospitals
- Financial Institutions
Our customers include
- Subassembly and component suppliers
- Manufacturers
- Owners
- Operators
- Loss adjusters
- Solicitors
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