III. A. 5. Fault and Success Tree Analysis

III. Reliability in Design and Development
A. Reliability design techniques

5. Fault tree analysis (FTA) and success tree analysis (STA) (Analyze)

Apply these techniques to develop models that can be used to evaluate undesirable (FTA) and desirable (STA) events.

A map or visual of the chain of events that lead to a failure or success.

 

Additional References

Basic Description of a Fault Tree Analysis (article)

A Brief Introduction to Fault Tree Analysis (article)

Fault Tree Analysis 8 Step Process (article)

Benefits of Fault Tree Analysis (article)

Intro to Fault Tree Analysis (article)

Quick Quiz

1-85. In comparison to a failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis, fault tree analysis (FTA) suffers from which basic problem?

(A) FTA can only be used to analyze electronic systems.
(B) In FTA it is difficult to assign probabilities to the various events.
(C) FTA takes significantly more time to accomplish.
(D) A different FTA is needed for each defined top event.

Answer Discussion