Laboratory for the study of failures in the automotive industry
Your needs: to carry out an expertise on a defect or a failure of your materials for the automotive sector
What is considered a product failure is a deterioration of the product. Indeed, it can be initiated by various internal problems due to manufacturing, customer feedback … etc.. Also, these problems impact the reliability, the solidity and the performances of products or materials. A failure can materialize under multiple forms: breakage of parts, corrosion mechanism, adhesion defect, presence of pollution, wear of materials, premature aging… So many contexts which will initiate in the industrialists of the automotive sector a need for expertise on the origin of this failure, then of research of solutions.
Our solutions: assisting the automotive industry in failure analysis and improvement of their materials
FILAB is an independent laboratory located in Dijon, France, with an analytical park of 2100m². FILAB has extensive experience in supporting projects for the automotive industry.
FILAB offers its analysis, expertise and R&D consulting services to the automotive sector for the following services
Study of defects and fracture surfaces on screws or metal sheets
Study of morphological failures (porosity, roughness...)
Analysis and expertise of failures: corrosion mechanisms, wear and premature aging phenomena, cracks, breakage...
Expertise pollution deposit
Characterization of surface defects: adhesion problems, identification of residual pollution (lubricants, detergent residues, etc.)