Column: Back to Basics: What Is a Fault Tree Analysis?
Column: Back to Basics: What Is a Fault Tree Analysis?
Use a general conclusion to determine specific causes of a system failure
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- March 2002
- Issue:
- Volume 35 Issue 3
- Pages:
- pp. 120-120
- Author(s):
- Pilot, Simha
Abstract
[Abstract from article.]
The fault tree analysis (FTA) was first introduced by Bell Laboratories and is one of the most widely used methods in system reliability, maintainability and safety analysis. It is a deductive procedure used to determine the various combinations of hardware and software failures and human errors that could cause undesired events (referred to as top events) at the system level.