ABSTRACT
Three examples of these methods and techniques that can be used in both reliability and safety areas are failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA), fault-tree analysis (FTA), and the Markov method. FMEA was developed in the early 1950s to analyze the reliability of engineering systems. Similarly, the FTA approach was developed in the early 1960s to analyze the safety of rocket launch control systems. Today, both FMEA and FTA are being used across many diverse areas to analyze various types of problems.
