摘要 |
A computer aided method to diagnose a failing part causing a symptom in a system comprising elements grouped into functions and subfunctions, said method being executed with the help of an operator performing local operations on the system and interfacing the computer, said method comprising the steps of defining and storing symptom trees of the system, each symptom tree being mapped on the split of the system into functions, subfunctions, elements which are the repairable units of the system and failure modes of these elements. The nodes include test description, the computer performing the tests of the tree until a failing node is found.
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