Systems engineering is a discipline that focuses on the design and application of the whole system, which may be comprised of many parts.
A real system includes things like:
- Products
- Processes
- People
- Information
- Techniques
- Resources
- Services
Systems engineering focuses on identifying requirements early in the development life cycle. It considers the entire problem space. Taking all aspects and variables into account and relating the social to the technical aspects. Then it proceeds with design synthesis, integrating all the specialty groups such as:
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Into a team effort in a structured development process that proceeds from concept, design synthesis, validation, deployment to production and operation.