Case Study
Automated Wear Debris Identification
Automated Wear Debris Identification A Case Study Binyam Abraham and Susan R. Benes FEI Company Typically, diagnosing wear debris has been somewhat interpretive and often inconclusive. Current techniques such as particle counters or spectroscopy are helpful but they can’t pin point where the contamination may be coming from. In the following discussion, we will introduce a particle identification technique new to the wear debris market which