Safety and Reliability of Product Lines with Fault Tree Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation

Dibaei Asl M, Hielscher KS, German R (2025)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2025

Event location: Shanghai, China CN

URI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11248265

DOI: 10.1109/ICRMS65480.2025.00059

Abstract

The industry is adopting and integrating product line engineering to provide reusability in manufacturing similar products and managing them throughout their life cycle. However, the large number of variants in product lines increases the time, space, and complexity of the safety and reliability analysis. From the reliability aspect, fault tree analysis in a system is one of the industry's most widely used techniques. At the same time, developing a fault tree for each variant in product line engineering is challenging. To address this issue, this paper proposes a new fault tree analysis method in product line engineering with Monte Carlo simulation. We have used a fault tree analysis software called XFTA to compute the probability of the top event in the 150 % fault tree. Then, we utilized Monte Carlo simulation to calculate the failure rate for new features of variants and assess their effect on the system failure rate.

Authors with CRIS profile

Mahdi Dibaei Asl Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Kai-Steffen Hielscher Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Reinhard German Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems)

How to cite

APA:

Dibaei Asl, M., Hielscher, K.-S., & German, R. (2025). Safety and Reliability of Product Lines with Fault Tree Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation. In Proceedings of the 2025 16th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS). Shanghai, China, CN.

MLA:

Dibaei Asl, Mahdi, Kai-Steffen Hielscher, and Reinhard German. "Safety and Reliability of Product Lines with Fault Tree Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation." Proceedings of the 2025 16th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (ICRMS), Shanghai, China 2025.

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