FTA
Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-002468
An abbreviation for Fault Tree Analysis, a top-down, deductive failure analysis method in which an undesired state of a system is analyzed using Boolean logic to combine lower-level events. This technique is used to identify potential causes of system failures and to calculate the probability of a top event occurring. FTA diagrams visually represent the logical relationships between events.
| Identifier | MLC-T-IND-002468 |
|---|---|
| Field | Industrial and trades |
| Subject | Aviation maintenance |
| Translations | German: FTA; Spanish: FTA; French: FTA |
Record as JSON
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