Back to Basics: What Is a Fault Tree Analysis?
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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
- Author(s):
- Pilot, Simha
- Organization(s):
- SPC Consultants, Israel
Abstract
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.