It is a safety analysis tool developed at the University of Hull. It has three main phases:

 

• System modelling and failure annotation, which is still a manual task. It can be achieved by using, for example, Matlab Simulink.

• Fault tree automatic generation using the failure information inserted manually.

• Fault tree analysis, which determines the cut sets of failures automatically and generation of a FMEA table containing the direct relationship between component failures and system failures.

 

With HiP-HOPS is also possible to perform design optimization.