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Probabilistic Model-Checking Support for FMEA
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 17-September 19
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Lars Grunske, University of Queensland, Australia
Robert Colvin, University of Queensland, Australia
Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a method for assessing cause-consequence relations between component faults and hazards that may occur during the lifetime of a system. The analysis is typically time intensive and informal, and for this reason FMEA has been extended with traditional model checking support. Such support does not take into account the probabilities associated with a component fault occurring, yet such information is crucial to developing hazard reduction strategies for a system. In this paper we propose a method for FMEA which makes use of probabilistic fault injection and probabilistic model checking. Based on this approach safety engineers are able to formally identify if a failure mode occurs with a probability higher than its tolerable hazard rate.
Index Terms:
Probabilistic Model Checking, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, System Safety
Citation:
Lars Grunske, Robert Colvin, Kirsten Winter, "Probabilistic Model-Checking Support for FMEA," qest, pp.119-128, Fourth International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2007), 2007
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