With coverage that draws from diverse disciplines, Systems Engineering Tools and Methods demonstrates how, using integrated or concurrent engineering methods, you can empower development teams. Copiously illustrated with figures, charts, and graphs, the book offers methods, frameworks, techniques, and tools for designing, implementing, and managing large-scale systems and includes case studies that exhibit the effect of the systems engineering (SE) concept and its importance during the design and development of a complex system. These case studies provide realistic insights into SE methods.
Emphasizing the importance of an integrated approach to the design life cycle of complex systems, the book stresses the relationship between SE and project management. It reviews the principles of functional analysis as design activities, discusses verification, validation, and testing (VV& T) methodologies and tools for complex systems, and presents a framework for assessing technology integration at the systems level. It also delineates the development of a business process reengineering plan based on one used for the restructuring, retraining, and redeployment of elements of the Kennedy Space Center workforce.
Preface
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 : Review of Systems Engineering Scope and Processes
Chapter 2 : Current Challenges in DoD Systems Engineering
Chapter 3 : Functional Analysis and Architecture
Chapter 4 : System Verification, Validation, and Testing
Chapter 5 : Assessing Technology Maturity as an Indicator of Systems Development Risk
Chapter 6 : Application of Business Process Reengineering to Space Center Workforce Planning
Chapter 7 : Systems Engineering Case Studies
Chapter 8 : Integrated Reliability Management System for Faster Time-to-Market Electronic Products
Chapter 9 : Taguchi Integrated Real-Time Optimization for Product Platform Planning: A Case of Mountain Bike Design
Chapter 10 : Product Customization through the Development of Manufacturing Cores
Chapter 11 : Genetic-Algorithm-Based Solution for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Index
