[i10] Warning and Degradation Concept … a different view

As an automotive system developer, you might well know the meaning of a Warning and Degradation Concept. It describes the various ways, how any irregular and potentially hazardous behavior of the vehicle or a part of it is being handled, if it is not possible to reach a safe state within the so-called Fault Tolerant Read More …

[i03] The matrix of fault analyses

When it comes to the question of categorizing some of the standard analysis methods in the field of safety and risk engineering, one of the illustration that I use are the two “axes of knowledge”: the knowledge about the causes and the knowledge about the consequences. If for both axes we consider just the two Read More …

[i02] Joint poster presentation at PHM-E 2012

“Design for Availability – Flexible System Evaluation with a Model Library of Generic RAMST Blocks” is the title of our joint presentation at the ongoing First European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, taking place July 3 to 5 2012 in Dresden, Germany. The contribution reports about a modelbased approach of amending a Read More …