The aim of Anticipatory Failure Detection is to uncover possible failures of a new system, a new product or a new process systematically, comprehensively and particularly early. “Make the failures early!” is an important approach to innovate successfully. In Design Thinking and Lean Startup, the testing and prototyping phases in particular focus on this “law of innovation”.
Here, the approach to troubleshooting is special: the search for possible errors is transformed into the task “How can errors be provoked?”. The method therefore focuses on the question, “What must be done or what must occur to cause a system, product, or process to fail?” After successful fault identification, possible solutions are sought.
The advantage of this method is that by searching for possible errors, the system, product or process is examined very intensively and possible weak points can be identified.