Category: Analysis

  • 5 ways to mess up your FTA

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    FTA is an analysis method that breaks down an undesired behavior of a system to different root causes and thus reveals systematic failures and weak points of the system. Just like FMEA, FTA also originates from aerospace engineering, hence is it highly utilized in safety critical engineering. One of the most significant differences between FMEA…

  • The simplest introduction to FMEA

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    FMEA, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis originates from the 1940s and still today it’s widely used in all branches of product design and development. Many standards require an FMEA analysis to help eliminating potential hazards of a system/component or process. FMEA is basically a structured answer to the question: “What could go wrong?”. It is…