An Investigation of Shipping Comb Failures due to usage in Manufacturing Processes using RCFA and FMEA

Shipping comb is mounted on Head Stack Assembly (HSA) to prevent collision of the heads, maintain the gap between suspensions and protect HSA tips from unintentional contact damaged in the manufacturing process. Failure analysis of shipping comb in hard disk drive production processes is proposed .Field observations were performed to determine the fatal areas on shipping comb and their failure fraction. Root cause failure analysis (RCFA) is applied to specify the failure causes subjected to various loading conditions. For reliability improvement, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) procedure to evaluate the risk priority is performed. Consequently, the more suitable information design criterions were obtained.

Authors:

• Atjanakul W
• Chutima S.
• Kamnerdthong T.

Keywords:

• Shipping comb
• Hard disk drive
• Root cause failureanalysis
• Failure mode and effects analysis

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