FRAM : Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems.

FRAM : Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems.

There has not yet been a comprehensive method that goes behind 'human error' and beyond the failure concept, and various complicated accidents have accentuated the need for it. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) fulfils that need. This book presents a detailed and tested metho...

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Main Author: Hollnagel, Erik
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2012.
Subjects:
System analysis.
Frequencies of oscillating systems.
Social systems > Mathematical models.
systems analysis.
Frequencies of oscillating systems
Social systems > Mathematical models
System analysis
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Prologue; 1 The Need; A State of (Relative) Ignorance; Ignorance, Complexity and Intractability; Systems Redefined; From Probability to Variability; Conclusions; Comments on Chapter 1; 2 The Intellectual Background; The Naturalness of Linear Thinking; Simple Linear Thinking; Complex Linear Thinking; Dynamic Systems and Parallel Developments; The Second Cybernetics; Conclusions; Comments on Chapter 2; 3 The Principles; The Equivalence of Failures and Successes; The Approximate Adjustments; Emergence; Resonance; Conclusions.
  • Comments on Chapter 34 The Method: Preliminaries; Looking For What Should Go Right; Step 0: Recognise the Purpose of the FRAM Analysis; Comments on Chapter 4; 5 The Method: Identify and Describe the Functions (Step 1); How Can the Functions Be Identified?; The Six Aspects; Elimination, Prevention, Protection and Facilitation; Monitoring (Performance Indicators); Dampening; What About Quantification?; Comments on Chapter 8; 9 Three Cases; 'Duk i buk' (The Sponge in the Abdomen); Herald of Free Enterprise Car Ferry Disaster; A Financial System; Comments on the Cases; Comments on Chapter 9.
  • 10 AfterthoughtsThe FRAM: A Method But Not a Model; Methods That Rely on Strong Models; Articulated Model or Articulated Method?; Scale Invariance; Comments on Chapter 10; 11 FRAM on FRAM; Index.

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