Fault-tolerant automation systems
2.2 Increasing the availability of plants
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With error/fault
The following figure shows how a component may fail without impairing the functionality of
the overall system.
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Example of redundancy in a 1-out-of-2 system with error
Failure of a redundancy node (total failure)
The following figure shows that the overall system is no longer operable, because both
subunits have failed in a 1-out-of-2 redundancy node (total failure).
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Example of redundancy in a 1-out-of-2 system with total failure
