Systems Engineering
Being involved in such business activity as systems engineering, you may find the SysML Solution truly useful as it provides all the necessary tools for making your great looking systems engineering related drawings within only a very short period of time.
Systems engineering itself is a well-known interdisciplinary field of engineering as well as engineering management, focused on finding the ways to design and to manage some complex systems all over their so-called “life cycles”. As its main aim, any systems engineering activity is known to be utilizing the systems thinking principles in order to organize it.
Such issues as reliability, logistics, requirements engineering, coordination of different teams, evaluation and testing, maintainability as well as many other disciplines, which are simply necessary for successful system design, its development and its implementation become more difficult in case you have to deal with some complex or large projects.
Any systems engineering activity is known to be dealing with different work-processes, methods of optimization as well as risk management, overlapping numerous human-centred as well as technical disciplines, such as industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, control engineering, electrical engineering, cybernetics, software engineering, project management and organizational studies. Systems engineering is known to be ensuring that all likely aspects of some system or some particular project are being taken into consideration, as well as integrated into a whole. Thus, the process of the systems engineering is simply a discovery process, known to be quite unlike any manufacturing process, which is only focused on the repetitive activities, that only achieve the high-quality outputs having minimum time and cost.
The systems engineering process usually begins by discovering some real problems which are known to be needed to get resolved, as well as identifying the most probable or simply the highest impact failures that sometimes can occur. Any systems engineering activity may involve such process as the one for finding any needed elegant solutions to the mentioned problems.
One of the ways used for understanding the motivation behind numerous systems engineering is to see it in a way of a method, or some practice, identifying as well as improving some common rules which are known to be existing within a wide variety of systems. The most commonly known principles of any systems engineering activity are holism, emergent behaviour, boundary and others.
All the mentioned principles can be applied to any of the needed systems, whether they are complex or not, employing at all levels. The companies, which deal with systems engineering, are those involved in the defence and aerospace, as well as those which are technology and information-based companies, software development ones, electronics and communications industries, known to be requiring systems engineers.
Encouraging its users to model and to simulate in order to validate theories or assumptions on systems as well as the interactions within them, systems engineering activity use the methods that allow early detection of all possible failures. In safety engineering such methods are known to be integrated into the design process.
Once the primary purpose of a systems engineer is to comprehend some complex problem, then any graphic representation of that system can be used in order to communicate that system's data as well as functional requirements. The common graphical representations may include any needed functional flow block diagram, known to be FFBD, model-based design, DFD, or Data Flow Diagram, N2 Chart, IDEF0 Diagram, Sequence diagram, Use case diagram, Signal-flow graph, Block diagram, USL Function Maps and Type Maps, Enterprise Architecture frameworks, Model-based systems engineering drawings and others.
Example 1. Systems Engineering — SysML Use Case Restaurant Model
SysML steadily gaining popularity and many companies succesfully use it in systems engeeniring. Among the tools which provides a SysML Solution, a special place occupies a wide collection of libraries - 13 libraries containing 284 vector objects:
- SysML Activity Diagram
- SysML Allocations
- SysML Block Definition Diagram
- SysML Internal Block Diagram
- SysML Package Diagram
- SysML Parametric Diagram
- SysML Ports and Flows
- SysML Profiles and Model
- SysML Requirement Diagram
- SysML Sequence Diagram
- SysML State Machine Diagram
- SysML Diagrams
- SysML Use Case Diagram
All the mentioned drawings can be always created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software with help of ConceptDraw STORE application, known to be one of the best nowadays for simplifying any work with any drawing, especially with system engineering related ones in case you have SysML Solution downloaded from the mentioned product of CS Odessa.
Example 2. SysML Solution in ConceptDraw STORE
Any graphical representation is known to be related to the numerous parts or subsystems of a system through functions, interfaces, data, etc. Any of the mentioned above methods can be used in any needed industry, which is based on its requirements. In case all the requirements are understood, then it becomes obvious that the responsibility of a systems engineer is to simply refine them. Later, he or she has to determine them with all other engineers who are known to be involved in the project in order to solve all the current issues.
Thus, systems engineering may encourage the use of the so-called weighted choices for determining the best of all the existing options. A so-called “decision matrix” can be also known as a “Pugh method”. It is one of all the possible and existing ways of making this choice if you consider all the important criteria. For example, in any SE process, the mentioned stage can represent the iterative step for carrying out until a feasible solution is eventually found. Any decision matrix is known to be populated by using special techniques: statistical analysis, system dynamics, optimization methods and reliability analysis.
Example 3. Systems Engineering in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM
Being involved in any of the described activities you may find ConceptDraw DIAGRAM a convenient tool for solving all of your problems with creating the needed drawings, such as those which are known to be systems engineering related. Having such solution, as SysML one, can be very beneficial for you as it allows to have the pre-made examples as the base for your own great looking drawings.
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