Talk:Fault tree analysis

Plan for expansion
This page was created to give a higher amount of detailed FTA information than could be realistically provided in safety engineering. Here's the plan of information to be added: Colin H 22:21, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Links to relavent pages
 * 2) Reduction in FTA detail in safety engineering article and incorporate of links to fault tree analysis
 * 3) Diagrams of event types
 * 4) Diagrams of gate types
 * 5) Explanation of cutsets and minimal cutsets
 * 6) Discussion on some of the advantages and disadvantages of FTA versus other methods

Matrix solution method
We use the matrix soution method to got the final result of the FTA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.177.10.154 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 3 November 2009‎

Figure
The figure does not conform to standard FTA usage. The inputs and outputs should be events. In particular, the top output should be "Top Undesired Event" or the like, not "Subsystem A". Van Parunak (talk) 17:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Even more seriously it connects one gate to another without an intermediate event. Chemical Engineer (talk) 11:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

History section
The fifth paragraph under History is a mess -- the Software discussion takes over in an almost incoherent way. Someone with specific knowledge of FTA, its relationship with Software, and a grasp of English should address that paragraph. Picojeff (talk) 19:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Took this content out. It might be useful to include history of the application of FTA to software in the history section, but discussion about the quantitative and qualitative aspects of FTA with respect to software and humans probably belongs under analysis. Rich Baldwin (talk) 19:56, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Rating
I've added it to WikiProject Systems and upgraded it to a C-class article; the article is well-referenced and has good supporting materials. I'd recommend taking it through a B-class review, which I may do myself if I have time, but I'll gladly defer to anyone with subject knowledge. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 10:51, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Priority AND gate
Given that the Priority AND gate requires a conditioning event to specify the priority sequence, wouldn't it therefore include a side branch by default (i.e. in the same way as the Inhibit gate)? Does it need to be added? — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 11:35, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Tagged for refimprove
After a further read of the rest of the article, I've noticed that "History" is the only section that is well-cited; others are mostly or entirely uncited. I've tagged it for refimprove for the other sections to have added citations. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 09:24, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Refeshing old/dead links
Noticed a link to theriac.org in the text leads to a 404 now. Someone more knowledgeable in this subject than I should see if those materials are available elsewhere and update the links.

I don't want to remove the broken links without giving them a fair chance to be redirected to a working set of content.173.250.185.124 (talk) 22:10, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Fixed now.Rich Baldwin (talk) 00:32, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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