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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

The configuration management process

The main aim of the configuration management process is to identify and control configuration items that exist as part of the system development across the life cycle.

Configuration items may be directly related to particular aspects of the model and, as a consequence of this, the whole configuration management process for an MBSE approach is typically far simpler than one that is applied to a document-based systems engineering approach. Refer to the following diagram:

Figure 10.9 – Process content view for the configuration management process

The diagram here shows the process content view for the configuration management process from ISO 15288 and is visualized using a SysML block definition diagram.

The outcomes, represented by SysML properties, that are identified for this process are described as follows:

  • Configuration items identified: This outcome identifies which elements in the model are classed...