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Systems Engineering Demystified

By : Jon Holt
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Systems Engineering Demystified

By: Jon Holt

Overview of this book

Systems engineering helps us to understand, specify, and develop complex systems, and is applied across a wide set of disciplines. As systems and their associated problems become increasingly complex in this evermore connected world, the need for more rigorous, demonstrable, and repeatable techniques also increases. Written by Professor Jon Holt – an internationally recognized systems engineering expert – this book provides a blend of technical and business aspects you need to understand in order to develop successful systems. You'll start with systems engineering basics and understand the complexity, communication, and different stakeholders' views of the system. The book then covers essential aspects of model-based systems engineering, systems, life cycles, and processes, along with techniques to develop systems. Moving on, you'll explore system models and visualization techniques, focusing on the SysML, and discover how solutions can be defined by developing effective system design, verification, and validation techniques. The book concludes by taking you through key management processes and systems engineering best practices and guidelines. By the end of this systems engineering book, you'll be able to confidently apply modern model-based systems engineering techniques to your own systems and projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Systems Engineering
4
Section 2: Systems Engineering Concepts
8
Section 3: Systems Engineering Techniques
14
Section 4: Next steps

Self-assessment tasks

  1. Revisit the Ontology Definition View in Figure 8.6 and consider how this applies to your organization. Wherever necessary, change the different types of system elements to reflect your organizational needs.
  2. Think about the different types of testing that are important for your organization. Which views from which perspectives that we have discussed so far in this book may be reused as part of this testing?
  3. Define a test behavior view for any system element using a SysML activity diagram.
  4. Define the Viewpoint Context View and Viewpoint Definition View for at least one other viewpoint that was shown in Figure 8.14.