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Failure analysis · Contributing factors

A blend uniformity failure shows up intermittently across several batches of the same product. Walk me through how you'd separate the true root cause from the contributing factors.

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Intermittent is the key word; a failure that comes and goes is driven by something that varies, so I'd hunt for what changes between good and bad batches.…

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