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Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change Analysis
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Purposedifferent
In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected.For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min45-120 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-62-61-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action ListDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
DecisionTreeOptions
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
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Paper illustration for Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting.
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