The role of JointJS in building a Fault Tree Analysis Diagram

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What is a Fault Tree Analysis?

Faul Tree Analysis helps, as SmartDraw puts it, “determine the cause of failure or test the reliability of a system by stepping through a series of events logically.” This technique is primarily used in safety and reliability engineering to better understand how systems can fail.

The benefits of a Fault Tree Analysis

Sometimes it helps to write things down on (digital) paper. This is also the case with a thorough root cause analysis. By visually describing the relationship between events and causes, companies get a clearer picture of what leads to failure. It goes without saying that being able to identify the root cause of a problem can help a company save resources or prevent events with very large negative impacts on the business.

The key components of a Fault Tree Analysis

There are a few key components of a Fault Tree Analysis that are worth mentioning at this stage:

• Problem: the problem to be analyzed.
• Logic gates: logic symbols that link events and conditions.
• Intermediate events: events caused by one or more other events.
• Basic events: events that terminate the Faul Tree Analysis and are a root cause of the problem.
• Undeveloped events: similar to the basic events, these are the lowest level events but can be further investigated.
• External events: events that are expected and considered normal.
• Conditional events: events that must take place for the logic gate to succeed.

To learn more about the components and symbols of fault tree analysis, we recommend reading this article from sixsigmastudyguide.com.

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