FMEA, fault trees and root cause analysis

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Self-directed study

Inductive and deductive failure analysis and structured anomaly root-cause methods.

Practice in the Flight Lab: Score the FMEA · Find the minimal cut sets · Five whys · Call the TRR

Subareas

FMEA/FMECA worksheets & severityFault tree gates & minimal cut setsProbabilistic FTA basics5 Whys & fishboneAnomaly/discrepancy reports & corrective action

What to learn

FMEA of a sensor node
Fault tree for loss of telemetry
Root-cause writeup for one bench bug

Resources

NASA Fault Tree Handbook ↗s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov
NASA SE Handbook: technical management ↗nasa.gov