Failure-Nets within the relational description of parts of IQ-

Fmea’s datamodel
The following small failure net is designed to illustrate the difficulty. The perspective and the
assignment as it is carried out within the IQ-Fmea shall be shown by means of the following
example.
View within FFA:

Description of the two failure nets of the failures in function one:

The corresponding tables for the relational datamodel:

Fmea000 Structures of a Fmea file

Fmea001 All structure elements of the exported structures.
Fmea002 Function Types
Fmea003 Failure Types
Fmea004 C-Measure Types (Control-Measure)
Fmea005 P-Measure Types (Preventive-Measure)
Fmea006 Measure States
Fmea007 Persons
Fmea008 Teams
Fmea009 Structure Tree
Fmea010 Structure Element – Function occurrences
Fmea011 Function events- Failure Occurrences
Fmea012 Measure State - C-Measure Occurrences
Fmea013 Measure State - P-Measure Occurrences
Fmea014 Failure Occurrences- Failure Causes
Fmea015 Function Occurrences – Function Causes
Fmea016 Function Types- Function Occurrences
Fmea017 Failure Types – Failure Occurrences
Fmea018 C-Measure Types - C-Measure Occurrences
Fmea019 P-Measure Types - P-Measure Occurrences
Fmea020 Failure Occurrences - (MeasureChanges)
Fmea021 Measure Changes – Measure States
Fmea022 Teams – Persons
Fmea023 Languages
Fmea024 Information for the existing Formsheets, e. g. Headerdata
Fmea025 Classification of types (functions, failures, measures)
Fmea026 Userdefined attribute (name and translations)
Fmea027 Relation from objects to userdefined attributes

For the mapping of the mentioned failure net (see example above) necessary tables:

Failure types: Table 3

Failure occurences: Table 17
Failure causes: Table 14

Tabelle 3 defines the existing failure types which are carrying the name for the existing
failures. The assignment of failures to their types happens in Table 17. Table 14 allocates
failures pairwise. From the point of view of the failure in the key field ‚uniquekey’ the
assigned failure in the field ‚causes’ is a cause. By reading the assignment inversely, the value
of the field ‚uniquekey’ is an effect of the value in ‚causes’. According to the third normal
form (ERM), it is not directly apparent in which structure the failure net is anchored. This is
to determine through the context of the tables 000, 001 and 011. Also the function which has
anchored the failure carrying the failure net is determined through the context of table 011.
Illustration. Exemplification of the complete relational datamodel:
Here are the three mentioned tables as generated after an Odbc-export into an existing MS-
Access database (Odbc-source):
Table 3:

Table 17:

Table 14: