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Systems Engineering Demystified

By : Jon Holt
Book Image

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 life cycle view for system development in your organization based on the ontology described in this chapter. Choose a single life cycle and identify its main stages.
  2. Choose another aspect of systems engineering in your organization and define another, different life cycle. This may be based on the examples discussed in this chapter, such as acquisition, technology, or assets, or you may create one that was not discussed.
  3. Create an interaction identification view to identify a set of life cycle interactions that exist between the two life cycles that were created in question 1 and question 2. Identify which stages in each life cycle form the start and end points for the interactions.
  4. Create at least one interaction behavior view that shows a possible scenario based on the interaction identification view that was created for question 3.
  5. Select any viewpoint from the viewpoint relationship view in Figure 4.13 and create a viewpoint context...