diff --git a/presentations/fmea/fmea_pres.tex b/presentations/fmea/fmea_pres.tex index 7c6aa5f..88ccee8 100644 --- a/presentations/fmea/fmea_pres.tex +++ b/presentations/fmea/fmea_pres.tex @@ -454,11 +454,13 @@ judged to be in critical sections of the product. The FMMD methodology breaks the analysis down into small stages, -by making the analyst choose functional groups of components, which are then when analysed. +by making the analyst choose functional groups of components, to which FMEA is applied. When analysed, we will have a set of symptoms of failure for the functional group. We can then create a derived~component, to represent the functional group. We can use derived components to form `higher~level' functional groups. +This creates an analysis hierarchy. + This addresses the state explosion (where $O$ is order of complexity) $O=N^2$ inherent in equation~\ref{eqn:fmea_state_exp}. \end{frame} @@ -466,7 +468,7 @@ of complexity) $O=N^2$ inherent in equation~\ref{eqn:fmea_state_exp}. \begin{frame} We can view the functional groups in FMMD as forming a hierarchy. If for the sake of example we consider each functional group to -be three components, figure~\ref{fig:three_tree} shows +be three components, the figure below shows how the levels work and converge to a top or system level. \begin{figure} diff --git a/presentations/fmea/three_tree.dia b/presentations/fmea/three_tree.dia new file mode 100644 index 0000000..226f2db Binary files /dev/null and b/presentations/fmea/three_tree.dia differ diff --git a/presentations/fmea/three_tree.png b/presentations/fmea/three_tree.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50c7d35 Binary files /dev/null and b/presentations/fmea/three_tree.png differ