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Revision as of 07:23, 14 July 2015
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how to design and manage complex engineering systems over their life cycles.
Issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability and many other disciplines necessary for successful system development, design, implementation, and ultimate decommission become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects.
Systems engineering deals with work-processes, optimization methods, and risk management tools in such projects. It overlaps technical and human-centered disciplines such as control engineering, industrial engineering, software engineering, organizational studies, and project management.
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.
External links
- Systems engineering @ Wikipedia
