השוואת שיטות

	ניתוח מצבי כשל והשפעותיו בסיוע סימולציה	ניתוח עץ אירועים (ETA)
תחום	תכנון ניסויים	אמינות
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1949 (FMEA); simulation-assisted variant: 1980s–1990s	2002
הוגה השיטה	FMEA originates from US MIL-P-1629 (1949); simulation integration developed in reliability engineering from the 1980s–1990s	Andrews & Moss
סוג	Reliability and risk analysis method	Forward inductive logic tree
מקור מכונן	Stamatis, D. H. (2003). Failure Mode and Effect Analysis: FMEA from Theory to Execution (2nd ed.). ASQ Quality Press. ISBN: 978-0873895989	Andrews, J. D., & Moss, T. R. (2002). Reliability and Risk Assessment (2nd ed.). Professional Engineering Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-86058-290-5
כינויים	Simulation-FMEA, Monte Carlo FMEA, Simulation-based FMEA, SA-FMEA	ETA, Event Sequence Diagram Analysis, Initiating Event Analysis, Olay Ağacı Analizi
קשורות	6	2
תקציר	Simulation-assisted FMEA enhances the classical Failure Mode and Effects Analysis by replacing point-estimate occurrence ratings with probabilistic simulation — typically Monte Carlo — to quantify failure probability distributions across a system's components. This yields statistically grounded Risk Priority Numbers (RPNs) rather than expert guesses, enabling more rigorous identification and prioritization of critical failure modes in complex engineering systems.	Event Tree Analysis (ETA) is a forward inductive technique used in reliability and risk engineering to model the possible outcomes that follow an initiating event. Starting from a single undesired event, ETA traces all subsequent event sequences through a binary branching tree representing the success or failure of safety barriers and protective systems. Introduced formally in reliability and risk literature by Andrews and Moss (2002), it is widely applied in nuclear, chemical, and aerospace industries to quantify accident sequence probabilities and guide safety decision-making.