ANALYSIS ( Functional) 2)
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The functional analysis of a system includes:
- an identification as precise as possible of the distinct functions of the system and their interactions or interferences
- in this way potential disfunctions and risks can be identified and, as a result, possible risks can be discovered and assessed. This can be done by "hazards and operability studies"; "analysis of possible failures of components"; "critical effects study"; causes and consequences diagrams"; "failures trees"; and others.
Statistical analysis is one of the main tools in this kind of analysis, as well as Petri nets and Markovian processes models.
Categories
- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
Publisher
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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