Patent ID: 6952658

Claim:
A system for determining fault causes, the system automatically determining hypotheses in a context of a fault cause analysis and performing an automated performance of hypotheses verification, the system comprising: a data input and visualization device; a data memory containing a general fault model, a fault event list, an empirical database and a storage area for storing a log of current fault cause analysis; and a data processing device connected to said data input and visualization device and to said data memory, said data processing device containing a processing unit for performing the fault cause analysis, a first comparator connected to said processing unit, a second comparator connected to said processing unit, and a hypothesis selector connected to said processing unit, following a selection by a user of a fault event provided by the fault event list, said data processing device displaying possible hypotheses to the user, carrying out a hypotheses verification process on selected hypotheses and, one of logging and displaying determined fault causes.