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Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration of Family Tree Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Family Tree 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.For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-62-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaFamily Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic
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