Re: [SystemSafety] Fault, Failure and Reliability Again (short)

From: Ross - Sigma < >
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:36:05 -0000

Peter

>I didn't say "standards", I said certification requirements. Those are,
>at least in the US, Federal Regulations, not standards. They set numerical
>requirements on rate of occurrence of dangerous failures; those are given
>qualitatively but they are assigned quantitative equivalents elsewhere
>(oddly, in the acceptable means of compliance).

I see what you mean Peter. I remain very much in the same camp as Nick with this and cannot see any way to express numerically the contribution of software errors to a Failure Condition.

In terms of Taxonomy there remains an issue within the aeronautic domains. There are still many that use error, fault and failure interchangeably.

Ross

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