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Latest revision as of 07:30, 25 September 2016

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

Description

Systems engineering addresses problems inherent in large or 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.

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