Troubleshooting Intermittent Deep Hole Drilling Problems: When the Issue Comes and Goes
Why Intermittent Problems Are Different I have spent more hours than I care to count standing at a machine, waiting for an intermittent problem to reappear. The part that makes these issues so frustrating is obvious: if the fault fired every cycle, I could isolate it in an afternoon. But when a tool burns up on one part, runs fine for the next ten, and then burns up again on part twelve, you are no longer troubleshooting a single event. You are chasing a condition that crosses some invisible threshold only part of the time. ...