The analysis of failures that could defeat independence between functions or safety mechanisms, such as common causes and cascading failures, and the measures that prevent them.
Analysis Work product in the Automotive and safety-critical lifecycle and the Industrial and energy electronics lifecycle
Safety mechanisms only work if a single cause cannot disable both the function and its monitor. This analysis finds the shared resources, layout proximity or common supplies that could silently break the redundancy the safety concept relies on.
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