About Higher-Level Effects

The effects for a system can be defined by propagating its failure modes at the higher-levels of an architecture. Each failure mode at the higher level of the architecture, which is caused by the system, is an effect of the system.

Note: A failure effect is calculated if the failure mode of the function or operation is the cause of the failure, which occurs at a higher level. These failure modes can also be defined during the Preliminary Risk Assessment of your system.

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Displaying Computed Effects

For a complex system defined on several levels, the effects for a lower-level system are the collection of failure modes caused by the analysed failure mode on elements of the higher-level architectures in context. This propagation can take place on the direct higher level or on all the higher-levels.