摘要 |
<p>A method for processing alarms generated within a predetermined system embodies a forward chaining approach to the analysis of alarms. Before an alarm set can be diagnosed, the method includes the steps of: providing a computer database (20) representative of all components of the system capable of faulting and the interconnections between the components; providing rules that relate component faults to generated alarms and to propagation of component faults within the system; determining individual alarm patterns generated by separate faulting of each component of the system; and storing in a computer database (22) individual alarm patterns determined for each component of the system.</p> |