From 2f123ddc73efd82ac27ecc821334e7a2d2cd6d9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Clark Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:19:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ref the work on spider diagrams --- old_thesis/introduction/introduction.tex | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/old_thesis/introduction/introduction.tex b/old_thesis/introduction/introduction.tex index c89c43a..fc3503d 100644 --- a/old_thesis/introduction/introduction.tex +++ b/old_thesis/introduction/introduction.tex @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ diagrams to represent failure modes. Euler circles represented failure modes, th and could therefore model multiple failure modes and the spiders (or joining lines) represented the symptom abstraction process. A spider thus determined a common symptom which was caused by one or mode component failure modes. -% AFTER 5 YEARS FUCKING ABOUT with this CUNTS mathematicians GET A REAL FUCKING JOB % At the 6 year point in this part time PhD I was finally appointed an electrical engineer. % and the process of writing a paper for presentation as a result of this % di-graphs instead were chosen. @@ -57,6 +56,10 @@ processes, and to restrict the examples examined to the domain of electronics on \footnote{Because FMEA deals with failure modes, in a static context---and all base components, whether mechanical, electrical or software always have sets of failure modes associated with them---it should be possible to apply it across all domains, and thus model integrated mechanical/electrical/software systems.} +The initial motivation to use spider diagrams, was that they presented a formal +language in an intuitive and easy to use visual representation. +Work on represnting failure modes, test cases and symptoms of failure +has been placed in appendix~\ref{spiderfmmd}. \paragraph{Safety Critical Controllers, knowledge and culture sub-disiplines} The maturing of the application of the programmable electronic controller (PEC)