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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 introduced the concepts of processes and why they are so important to MBSE. Processes are collected together into a process set to form the heart of any good MBSE approach, alongside the framework.

An approach to modeling processes was introduced that is known as the seven-views approach to process modeling and was used to show how a process may be defined.

The same approach was then also used to show how a standard may be modeled; this will be referred back to in subsequent chapters in this book.

Finally, the framework for the process perspective was defined.

The next chapter looks at the whole area of needs modeling. The process modeling that we have learned about in this chapter will also be used to define a needs-based process.