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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2011
Andreas Joanni, Neusäβ, DE;
Christof Kaukewitsch, München, DE;
Andreas Joanni, Neusäβ, DE;
Christof Kaukewitsch, München, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for the conversion of at least one reliability model of a technical system to a Bayesian network model for assisting in the system's failure diagnostics, has the steps of creating a structure of a Bayesian network using information from at least one reliability model of the technical system, creating parameters of the Bayesian network using information from the reliability model of the technical system, the Bayesian network model having a plurality of observation nodes, obtaining information about the plurality of observation nodes from a list of observations that augments information contained in the reliability model of the technical system, and inserting the observation nodes into the created structure of the Bayesian network.