Patent ID: 9483342
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for supporting failure mode and effects analysis, the method comprising: storing a meta-model in a computer-readable storage medium, the meta-model comprising generic parts of a plurality of technical systems, generic failure modes, and associations between the generic parts and the generic failure modes, the associations indicating, for each generic part, one or more generic failure modes associated with the generic part, wherein each generic failure mode identifies a type of failure for a respective generic part; instantiating, with a processor, the generic parts and the generic failure modes to generate part instances and failure mode instances, respectively, the part instances and the failure mode instances specifying an individual technical system of the plurality of technical systems; storing the part instances and the failure mode instances in association with the plurality of technical systems; and associating each failure mode instance with a respective one of the part instances based on the associations between the generic failure modes and the generic parts stored in the meta-model, wherein at least one of the part instances is associated with more than one failure mode instance.