It's popular among the highly technical trades, but a fault tree can also pinpoint problems within a small manufacturing operation. A properly done fault tree analysis, or FTA, shows relations ...

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) forms the cornerstone of systematic investigations into potential failures within complex engineering systems. By utilising logical diagrams comprised of gates such as ...

Instead, the fault sequence is differentiated to enable ISO 26262-compliance. Within this paper, an innovative approach including its mathematical background is presented how cyclic SMs can be ...

A fault tree analysis of a car starting system is presented as an example. SAE International is a global association of more than 128,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, ...

These data are interpreted in terms of a "fault tree analysis, " an operations research technique that identifies potential points of failure in technical systems in order to study patterns of use, ...