diff --git a/submission_thesis/CH3_FMEA_criticism/copy.tex b/submission_thesis/CH3_FMEA_criticism/copy.tex index c3b4158..5954a05 100644 --- a/submission_thesis/CH3_FMEA_criticism/copy.tex +++ b/submission_thesis/CH3_FMEA_criticism/copy.tex @@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ our lives safer. This chapter aims to look for the deficiencies in current FMEA and look for ways in which it could be performed better and more efficiently. A major problem is with the scope of -examination---i.e. which/how~many components should we check against a particular failure mode---to +examination---i.e. which/how~many components should be checked against a particular failure mode---to apply for FMEA analysis. % -Checking all combinations quickly leads to a state explosion problem: -defining limits for the number of components to check for against a given {\bc} -{\fm} could address this. +Checking all possible combinations of {\fms} against all components quickly leads to a state explosion problem. %: +%defining limits for the number of components to check for against given {\bc} +%{\fms} could address this. % The difficulties of integrating software and hardware in FMEA failure models mean that FMEA is showing its age: designed @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ traceable reasoning) FMEA models are presented. Finally we conclude with a list of deficiencies in current FMEA methodologies and present a wish list for an improved methodology. -\section{Historical Origins of FMEA: {\bc} {\fm} to system level failure/symptom paradigm} +\section{Historical Origins of FMEA and the {\bc} {\fm} to system level failure/symptom paradigm} \subsection{FMEA: {\bc} {\fm} to system level failure modelling} FMEA traces it roots to the 1940s when it was used to identify the most costly @@ -145,12 +145,12 @@ This can be seen as an indicator of the lack of cause to effect precision possible when analysing large systems using FMEA. % -Ideally this relationship would be one to one. +Ideally this relationship would be many ({\bc} {\fms}) to one (system level symptoms). % This would be beneficial in terms of validating precision of analysis, and for by-products of -the process such as developing diagnostic fault trees from -FMEA analyses. +the process such as developing diagnostic fault trees~\cite{cbds}[Ch 6.2] from +FMEA results. \section{Comparison Complexity} %\section{Reasoning Distance used to measure Comparison Complexity} @@ -177,16 +177,17 @@ other system level symptoms. % Were we to compare the reasoning distance with the theoretical maximum, the sum of all failure % modes in a system, multiplied by the number of components in it, we could arrive at a maximum % reasoning distance, which we can use as a comparison complexity figure. -If the reasoning distance is compared with the theoretical maximum, i.e. -as defined in equation~\ref{eqn:fmea_single}, this can be used as a comparison complexity figure. +If a reasoning distance used is compared with the theoretical maximum, i.e. +as defined in equation~\ref{eqn:fmea_single}, + comparison complexity figures can be produced. % % This figure would mean we could compare the maximum number of checks (i.e. exhaustive %rigorous % analysis) with the number actually performed. -This figure would mean this maximum number of checks (i.e. exhaustive %rigorous +Comlexity comparision means this maximum number of checks (i.e. exhaustive %rigorous analysis) could be compared to the number actually performed. % -In effect a yard~stick for the efficiency, in terms of work, -for a particular analysis technique. +In effect a yard~stick for the amount of work performed +for a particular FMEA analysis technique/strategy. \paragraph{The ideal of exhaustive FMEA (XFMEA).} % diff --git a/submission_thesis/CH4_FMMD/instance_diagram_NONINVAMP.dia b/submission_thesis/CH4_FMMD/instance_diagram_NONINVAMP.dia index d358fd3..519f56e 100644 Binary files a/submission_thesis/CH4_FMMD/instance_diagram_NONINVAMP.dia and b/submission_thesis/CH4_FMMD/instance_diagram_NONINVAMP.dia differ