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Failure Analysis to accelerate diagnostics and problem solving

When you encounter a problem or performance defect with your part or device, it can cause serious stalls in development and production. These delays cost you time and money unnecessarily.

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What is Failure Analysis?

When facing an unexplained failure, whether evaluating yield issues in a manufacturing process, failures in the field, material property deterioration, or field return units, Covalent's Failure Analysis services help define your problem and create a program to hypothesize potential failure mechanisms, collect and analyze relevant data, and ultimately report findings & recommend corrective actions.  

Our Process

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Define & Describe

Covalent's experts will work to understand your process & hypothesize solutions.

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Collect & Analyze

We'll define a testing plan to systematically test potential root causes of failure mechanisms.

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Solve & Synthesize

Report findings & validate hypothesis; recommend corrective actions.

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Implement & Inform

Support implementation efforts and evaluate consequences of change.

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Why Covalent 

  • Specialized Exports: Covalent's expert team of metrology and application experts boast dozens of PhDs and 70+ state-of-the-art instruments to bring human expertise to bear with cutting-edge technology.
  • FA support Team: We've developed a process to collect the best data possible using a full suite of modern characterization tools.
  • Digital Platform: Test results without insights only provide half of a solution. Our data science department provides advanced statistical analysis, data modeling and automation to extract insight from data.

Your Failure Analysis Begins Here

Get in touch and Covalent's experts will help craft a tailored Failure Analysis plan to your needs

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Types of Failure Analysis:

  • Polymers & Adhesives: Formulation analysis, property degradation, thermal analysis, rheology
  • Microchips & Sensors: Cracking, wire bond failures, solder joint failures, plating issues, contamination, ESD failures
  • Batteries: Raw material impurity analysis, product identification, electrolyte diffusion, non-destructive X-ray evaluation, thermal runway, outgassing products
  • An More...: Medical devices, Renewables, Displays, Electronic Devices, Automotives, Chemicals, Metallurgy

Accelerate Your Problem-Solving Today

Contact Covalent to create a customized Failure Analysis plan & get your development back on track