Développement d’un système informatisé d’aide à l’analyse d’avaries : le logiciel Tirex

In designing industrial product, an important and undervalued information is the feedback from failure situations. The present paper describes a simple method to store and retrieve failure analysis cases, allowing to compare a new case with already investigated ones. This method relies on a hierarchical storage of information, and on the definition of a “distance” between two cases. Examples taken from nuclar power plants allow to illustrate …