The specification of classes of field emergency cases on the similarity criteria

The classification of the failures and the conditions of their occurrence in production experience of the existing repair and renewal operations is indicative, and should be specified. The more acceptable formal framework to solve such issues with the classification of attributes is the methods of automatic classification, or taxonomy. One of them is the “class” method, the structural content of which is of combinative nature. One of the most effective properties of this method enables to distinguish similar objects without the initial information on numerous objects, which are an assembly of quality aspects studied.