vikatilanteen
Vikatilanteen is a Finnish term used in engineering, safety management and maintenance to describe a defined fault situation in a system, where a defect or malfunction leads to abnormal behavior or degraded performance. The concept is used to standardize how faults are described, analyzed and communicated during risk assessment and incident handling.
The word combines vika, meaning defect or fault, with tilanne, meaning situation; the genitive form tilanteen
Vikatilanteen is applied across industries including mechanical, electrical, software and process engineering. It is used in
Documentation of a vikatilanteen typically includes: fault type, triggering conditions, observed symptoms, affected components or subsystems,
Examples include a sensor failure causing invalid control signals in an automation line, or an electrical fault