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Search by Keyword Search by Category Search by Failure Mandala About Failure Mandalas About the 100 Selected Cases View Chronology Case Details 100 Selected Cases Keywords Used Categories Used Number of Cases (As of February 2010) Field Details 100 Cases Mechanical 37 37 Material 35 34 Chemical 333 14 Civil Eng. 144 20 Total 549 105			The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has studied accidents and failures in the fields of science and technology. The lessons learned have been used to create the Failure Knowledge Database. This database can be accessed free of charge. * News News List February 5, 2010 "The ranking" was updated. (Jan) February 2, 2010 Information of service stop according to maintenance December 6, 2007 100 Selected Cases of Chemicals and Plants field were updated. August 23, 2006 Opening the Failure Knowledge Database (English version) to the Public * Search by Keyword You can use keywords to search for failure case studies. AND OR * Search by Category All Categories You can search for failure case studies using categories selected from the category list as search criteria. Machinery(7) Chemistry(163) Oil(82) Petrochemistry(26) Construction(146) Electrical, Electronic, and IT(10) Electric Power and Gas(23) Nuclear Power(13) Aerospace(16) Motor Vehicles(20) Railways(12) Shipping and Maritime(11) Metals(17) Food(9) Natural Disasters(17) Miscellaneous(24) * Search by Failure Mandala About Failure Mandalas Failure case studies can be retrieved by searching the Failure Mandalas. There is one mandala for each of Cause, Action, and Result. Please see "Search Methods - Search by Failure Mandala" about the procedure of the retrieval. Terms Selected Cause Action Result You may have to install the following plug-ins in order to use this Web site correctly: Science Links Japan is a topically arranged directory of online information resources for science and technology in Japan.

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