Assumption Modes and Effect Analysis of XMECA: Expert based safety assessment

Failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) is a well-known risk assessment method used to diagnose potential failure modes of a product or system being designed. This method is much based on expert experience and aims to develop improvement strategies so as to reduce the risk of failures. XMECA is a generic extension of this approach that can be applied to analysis not only failures, but other aspects related to safety analysis like intrusions (IMECA) etc. Assumption modes and effect analysis refers to a suggested technique used to minimize risks involved in making assumptions done by expert during performance of XMECA. Possible assessment scenario are described.