FRAM, the functional resonance analysis method : modelling complex socio-technical systems / by Erik Hollnagel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollnagel, Erik, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

System analysis.

Frequencies of oscillating systems.

Social systems--Mathematical models.

Social systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 142 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

functional resonance analysis method

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, UK England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 method that can be used to model how complex and dynamic socio-technical systems work, and understand both why things sometimes go wrong but also why they normally succeed.

Contents:

1. The Need

2. The Intellectual Background

3. The Principles

4. The Method: Preliminaries

5. The Method: Identify and Describe the Functions (Step 1)

6. The Method: The Identification of Variability (Step 2)

7. The Method: The Aggregation of Variability (Step 3)

8. The Method: Consequences of the Analysis (Step 4)

9. Three Cases

10. Afterthoughts

11. FRAM on FRAM.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-93596-8

1-351-93595-X

1-315-25507-3

1-4094-4551-8

1-280-68993-5

9786613666871

1-4094-4553-4

9781315255071

OCLC:

794494096