Glass failure expert re-visits the window reliability of metal clad wood windows. Recently, numerous entities are suing various window manufacturers because of premature window failure (i.e. poor window reliability) of various brands of metal clad wood windows. These window failures are not manufacturer dependant; they are a result of the fact that these are metal […]
Glass Expert Discusses Potential Manufacturing Defect
A manufacturing defect was claimed by a purchaser of a bottle of wine. The bottle defect claim was that there were three pieces of foreign material in the wine. The photograph above shows the food contamination. Two are pieces of glass that appear to match the top of the contaminated bottle. The third piece is […]
Manufacturing Engineer and Factory Safety Engineer Discusses Bungee Cords
Manufacturing Engineer discusses bungee cord safety from a safety engineering view point. Stretching a bungee cord imparts a significant amount of potential energy into the system that can be released and make the end hook a dangerous projectile. There are safety warnings on most cords; however, these are often ignored or torn off. It has […]
Manufacturing Engineer and Safety Engineer Discusses Crane Safety
Manufacturing Engineer and Safety Engineer advises, for factory safety, that if a crane is being used to lift objects over and into baths that contain harmful liquids such as acids, caustics and high temperature liquids. the event should be treated as a “lock out tag out” type of event. All personnel should be cleared from […]
Glass Failure Analysis of Swimming Pool Tiles
Glass failure analysis expert performs a failure analysis of cracked glass swimming pool tiles. The photo on the upper left is of one of the cracked tiles. This is a clear glass tile made from re-cycled glass. The failure analysis, photo on the upper right, shows that these tiles were cracking from the backside of […]
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