What is it about?
It is essentially a graphical method for describing relations between conditions and events. The use of Petri nets in failure analysis enables to replace logic gate functions in fault trees, efficiently obtain minimal cut sets, and absorb models.
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Why is it important?
It is demonstrated that for failure analysis Petri nets are more efficient than fault trees. In addition, this study devises an alternative; namely, a trapezoidal graph method in order to account for failure scenarios.
Perspectives
I hope this novel method in dealing with failure analysis could be popularized for engineering scenario analysis.
Ship-Bin Chiou
Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation
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This page is a summary of: The application of Petri nets to failure analysis, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, August 1997, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s0951-8320(97)00030-6.
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