Toyota employees are encouraged to observe failures as they occur for example, by sitting next to a machine on the assembly line and waiting and watching for any problems.
A series of spinning cycles with fixed imbalanced loads was run on two washing-machines to observe failures and performance changes during the test.
For example, patients may be unaware of, or misinterpret undesirable events, may lack opportunities to observe failures, and may feel reluctant to question professionals' actions [ 17].
Good agreement was found between predicted and observed failure initiation load steps and failure locations.
The most frequently observed failure is cracking along the grain (46%).
It allows fitting a volume based weakest link model to the experimentally observed failure probabilities.
The observed failure modes include local buckling, flexural buckling and interaction of local and flexural buckling.
The moment capacities and observed failure modes at ultimate loads were reported.
The observed failure modes were consistent with failure modes under constant amplitude loading.
