Meeting Re-use Requirements of Real-Life Diagnosis Applications

This report addresses re-use issues in computer-based diagnosis. It is shown that in order to obtain re-usable components it is useful to categorize the knowledge and software for a diagnosis system along two dimensions, generality and genericity. Several new contributions to diagnosis technology are presented which illustrate different re-use categories and show the benefits of improved reusability. The contributions pertain to different tasks related to the diagnosis of real-life systems of diverse domains: FMEA, workshop diagnosis, generating diagnosis manuals, generating fault trees and operator assistance in post mortem diagnosis. The work has been performed by three research groups involved in the joint research project INDIA (Intelligent Diagnosis in Industrial Application).