Ceramics and technical minerals

A part goes out of spec, and the tracing costs weeks of the best engineer.

The records to find it in usually already exist. Reading them is the work.

Ceramic bodies at successive stages of forming and firing
A sintering window that moved when the line was scaled.

The setting that drifted, not just the failure mode.

Ranked causes with the evidence behind each, the coincidences that moved with them ruled out, and the cheapest experiment that would confirm the leading one.

What it does here

Where the published record is the question rather than your data, a graded brief says what it actually supports and where it disagrees with itself.

Out-of-spec, tracedfrom your records
Ranked causeswith evidence
Ruled outand why
Cheapest confirming testnamed
Published recordgraded
What could not be settledflagged with the test

What has to exist first

Batches of the same product on the same line with both outcomes present, good and bad, and records linkable from batch to process to QC. How many is settled in the conversation before anyone pays.

We are building this now.

The same engine runs coating analysis in production today, and this industry is where we are taking it next: the same agents and models, fitted to the records this industry keeps. The case slots below stay empty until there is real work in them and a customer who agrees to publish it.

A recurring out-of-spec, ended

The batches, the ranked causes, and the test that stopped it coming back.

Not yet published

What the literature actually supports

A graded brief on a question where the published record disagrees with itself.

Not yet published

Your own case

The fastest way to see the work on this kind of problem is to put one of yours in front of it.

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Bring the part that keeps going out of spec.

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