It was an idle Tuesday when I received a call that a location in South America had finally figured out why the paper ...

Failure analysis is the scientific process of determining the root cause of a failure. It is often related to equipment breakdown with varying levels of consequence, from loss of production, to ...

Three weeks after a massive IT outage brought the world to its knees, CrowdStrike has just unveiled a detailed Root Cause Analysis report. The July 19 systems crash left an indelible mark, causing ...

AI agents are now merging wearable sensor data with historical incident logs to automate root-cause analysis and transform reactive safety into proactive prevention.

Different types of engineering analyses Steps in root cause failure analysis The importance of the chain of custody How a failure analysis lab can contribute to ...

On-call was built on a false assumption: that humans are the fastest way to interpret failure. That assumption collaps ...

A new PCAOB spotlight report provides staff observations regarding the potential positive impact of performing a root cause analysis on the quality of audits performed by PCAOB-registered public ...

When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident ...

When a chip malfunctions it’s the job of the failure analysis engineer to determine how it failed or significantly deviated from its key performance metrics. The cost of failure in the field can be ...

The interrelated final standards on quality management issued in June 2022 by the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board and Accounting and Review Services Committee are intended to clarify and improve ...

Coinbase says an AWS cooling failure caused a major outage that disrupted trading and delayed balance updates.