Julien Delange's blog - Introducing EMFTA, a libre, Eclipse-Based Fault-Tree Analysis tool

A Fault-Tree Analysis (or FTA) is a popular safety analysis recommended by several well-known practices and standards, such as ARP4761. A FTA shows the relation between a fault and its potential contributors (error events) using a simple binary logic (and/or gates). This is nothing else than a convenient representation of the relation between error events.

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