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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration of the Morphological Analysis working structure.
Innovation
Morphological 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 search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-62-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaMorphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
IdeationInnovationCreativity
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