diff --git a/style.tex b/style.tex index f6d7643..ffbc962 100644 --- a/style.tex +++ b/style.tex @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ \newcommand{\fmodegloss}{\glossary{name={failure mode},description={The way in which a failure occurs. A component or sub-system may fail in a number of ways, and each of these is a failure mode of the component or sub-system}}} \newcommand{\fmeagloss}{\glossary{name={FMEA}, description={Failure Mode and Effects analysis (FMEA) is a process where each potential failure mode within a SYSTEM, is analysed to determine SYSTEM level failure modes, and to then classify them {\wrt} percieved severity}}} +\newcommand{\frategloss}{\glossary{name={failure rate}, description={The number of failure within a population (of size N), divided by N over a given time interval}}} diff --git a/survey/survey.tex b/survey/survey.tex index 696cdc4..49f0a49 100644 --- a/survey/survey.tex +++ b/survey/survey.tex @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ part number, environmental stress factors, MTTF, safe/dangerous etc. The product failure rate is the sum of all component failure rates. Typically the sum of all MTTF rates for all components in an FMEDA spreadsheet. +\frategloss %This is the sum of safe and unsafe %failures. @@ -838,7 +839,7 @@ Discuss hardware failsafes (good example over pressure saefty values). Keep relating these back to bayes theorem. \subsection{Deterministic FMEA} -# FMEA cannot handle simultaneous failure modes..... +........... FMEA cannot handle simultaneous failure modes..... EN298 no two individual component failures may give rise to a dangerous condition.