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Jean-Pierre SIGNORET: Dependability specialist - Former Chairman of the UTE and AFNOR UF56 (operating safety) commissions - IEC 61025 project manager Fault tree - Member of TOTAL associate professors - 64160 Sedzère, France
INTRODUCTION
Unlike reliability diagrams (BDF), whose creation date is unknown, fault trees (ADD) have been clearly identified
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. The ADD method was developed in 1962 by H.A. Watson as part of the US Air Force's Minuteman project. It immediately proved so effective that it was rapidly adopted in aeronautics, then in the space industry
and nuclear industry
, and is now used in most industrial sectors, where it is part of the panoply of methods commonly implemented in the field of operational safety (reliability diagrams
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GRIF-Workshop software package (GRaphique Interactif pour la Fiabilité), developed by ELF and then for TOTAL by SATODEV.
module Tree: fault trees ;
ETree module: event trees ;
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Petri module: stochastic Petri nets ;
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Standards and norms
- - CEI 61078 -
- - CEI 60050-192 -
- - CEI 61703 -
- - ISO/TR 12489 -
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- - CEI 61165 -
- - CEI 62551 -
- - CEI 61508 -
- - CEI 61511 -
- - CEI 62740 -
- - CEI 62502 -
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