Development of Computer-Aided Fault Tree Analysis Software for Manufacturing Industry and its Application to Practical Business

Abstract

This paper describes a case study of software development of computer-aided fault tree analysis system for reliability design in manufacturing industry and its application to practical business. This software development aims at realizing a practical product for the corporate business based on academic research products. This kind of software development usually faces two problems, development cost and usability of the software. We overcome those problems by introducing a software development method based on our software development platform "MZ Platform" and utilizing the iteration process of prototyping and reviewing in a short period.