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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change Analysis
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.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.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.
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MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min30-90 min45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1-62-82-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision BoundariesChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List
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TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
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Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
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Decision Making
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Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration for Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting.
Engineering
Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting