Patent ID: 9588837
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F

Claim:
1. A method for generating a fault tree of an object to be analyzed, wherein the object to be analyzed comprises a plurality of functional blocks, the method comprising: a processor of a computer system storing a configuration information of the object to be analyzed, wherein the configuration information identifies the plurality of functional blocks and further identifies a plurality of signal lines that each connect two or more blocks of the plurality of functional blocks; the processor acquiring an exclusion target information that identifies a part to be excluded from the fault tree, wherein the part to be excluded comprises at least one of a first functional block of the plurality of functional blocks and a first signal line of the plurality of signal lines; and the processor creating from the configuration information and from the exclusion target information a fault tree of a part to be analyzed, wherein the creating comprises excluding the part to be excluded from the plurality of functional blocks and from the plurality of signal lines.