Failures Mode and Effects Analysis

• FMEA is
– a useful tool for reliability analysis
– systematic check of a product or process
• function
• failure causes
• failure modes
• failure consequences
 Fault Tree Analysis
• Logical chart of occurrences
to illustrate cause and effects
• Developed by DF Haasl, HA Watson,
BJ Fussell and WE Vesely
• Initially at Bell Telephone Laboratories
then North American Space Industry
 Fault Tree Analysis

• Common symbols used 1

– main event
– basic event
– incompletely analysed event
– restriction
 Fault Tree Analysis

• Common symbols used 2

– or-gate + 1

– and-gate &

– transfer to or from another place