Pour
Log the ingot lot on every pour
PourPorosity5/5 confidence
What we learned
What worked
Recording the alloy batch id on every trial and run row. When gas porosity turned up on two unrelated jobs in the same week, the shared ingot lot fell out of the data in about a minute.
What failed
Nothing, but only because the field was already there. Without it the investigation would have been a week of guessing.
War story
The lot was quarantined and returned to the supplier. The whole case rests on a text field somebody bothered to fill in every time.
Pour conditions
- Degassed
- Yes
- Degassing
- Rotary degas on every heat, no exceptions
Tags
4traceabilitymaterialporosityprocess
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