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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

Summary

This chapter has considered, at a very high level, the management processes that are demanded by the ISO 15288 standard. It should be very clear by now that almost all of the information required to satisfy ISO 15288 is already contained in the model.

The main aim here is to show how the model views that we have been creating and discussing throughout this book may be used to help define the approach for MBSE in terms of the processes that are specified in the standard. The more that we can reuse these views, the more value we can demonstrate from each view.

Remember that MBSE is an approach, and the heart of this approach comprises the process set and the framework. Both of these have already been defined in a rigorous fashion by modeling, as has been demonstrated throughout this book.

The next chapter looks at some specific examples of methodologies that may be useful for MBSE activities.