System safety analysis: fault trees and FMEA
ASP video lesson, 6:33. ASP Domain 2: Safety Programs and Concepts
Compare inductive FMEA and deductive fault tree analysis for the ASP exam: top events, gates, faults versus failures, cut sets, the rare event approximation, and FMECA severity categories.
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What this lesson covers
In this lesson, you'll learn to: contrast inductive and deductive analysis, distinguish a fault from a failure, build a tree from top event to gates and cut sets, and apply AND and OR probability math and FMECA severity categories. System analysis has two approaches. FMEA is inductive. Fault tree analysis is deductive.
- Intro
- Learning objectives
- Two approaches
- Inductive methods
- FMECA
- Definitions
- Building a tree
- Cut sets and path sets
- Gate math
- On the job
- Common exam traps
- Recap quiz
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