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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. Create a structural breakdown view for part of a system in your organization based on the ontology described in this chapter. Choose a single system and identify its main subsystems.
  2. Based on the answer to the previous question, consider the relationships between the levels of abstraction, in terms of composition and aggregation, as well as the relationships on each level of abstraction in terms of associations and where the interfaces exist.
  3. Identify at least one interface that exists between the subsystems on your view and provide a description by creating an interface identification view, a port definition view, a flow definition view, a connectivity view, and an interface behavior view.
  4. Define a configuration of your system, based on your previous answers.
  5. Select any viewpoint from the viewpoint relationship view in Figure 3.22 and create a viewpoint context view using text and a viewpoint definition view using a block diagram.
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