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'''Systems engineering''' is an interdisciplinary field of [[engineering]] that focuses on how to design and manage large and [[Complexity|complex]] engineering systems over their life cycles.

== Description ==

Systems engineering addresses problems inherent in large or [[Complexity|complex]] projects.

== Issues ==

Issues include:

* Requirements engineering
* Reliability
* Logistics
* Coordination of different teams
* Testing and evaluation
* Maintainability
* Other disciplines necessary for:
** System development
** Design
** Implementation
** Decommission

== Deals with ==

Systems engineering deals with:

* Work-processes
* Optimization methods
* Risk management tools

== Related fields ==

Systems engineering overlaps technical and human-centered disciplines such as:

* Control engineering
* Industrial engineering
* [[Software engineering]]
* Organizational studies
* Project management

== Integration ==

Systems engineering ensures that all likely aspects of a project or system are considered, and integrated into a whole.

== Systems engineering versus manufacturing ==

The systems engineering process is a discovery process, not a manufacturing process.

A manufacturing process is focused on repetitive activities that achieve high quality outputs with minimum cost and time.

The systems engineering process must begin by discovering the real problems that need to be resolved, and identify the most probable or highest impact failures that can occur -- systems engineering involves finding elegant solutions to these problems.

== Scale ==

Systems engineering deals with large problems. See [[Scalability]].

== See also ==

* [[Complexity]]
* [[Engineering]]
* [[Scalability]]
* [[Software engineering]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_development_life_cycle Systems engineering] @ Wikipedia