Ali K. Kamrani, Maryam Azimi "Systems Engineering Tools and Methods"
ISBN: 1439809267 | 2011 | PDF | 362 pages | 3,6 MB
Book Description :
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.
The book
includes examples of the design and development of several large complex
systems from the DoD and NASA. Each system provides the backdrop for SE
learning principles such as technical decision making, requirements
definition, logistics support planning, verification, and risk
mitigation. Discussions of a proposed integrated reliability management
system for faster time-to-market electronics equipment, a new
integrative approach to the allocation of adjustability, the importance
of manufacturing with regard to designing components of a system, and
methods and algorithms used in the solution of combinatorial
optimization problems rounds out the coverage.
Waste, inadequate
system performance, cost overruns, and schedule problems often result
from failure to apply advanced systems engineering early in project
development. By applying the methods outlined here, you can anticipate
and avoid these costly roadblocks when possible, and quickly mitigate
their damaging effects when necessary
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