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This book provides a basic coverage of the discipline known as systems engineering. The book supports the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that the authors deliver regularly through the Coursera platform and is an overview of our more-comprehensive physical text «Systems Engineering Practice», also published by Argos Press. Here, we offer a framework encapsulating the entire systems engineering discipline, clearly showing where the multitude of associated activities fits within the overall effort, providing an ideal vehicle for understanding the complex discipline.
Chapter 1 introduces systems, systems engineering and related issues and Chapter 2 provides an overview of requirements-engineering and its application to systems development. Chapters 3 and 4 examine in more detail the issues associated with Conceptual Design and Preliminary Design. Emphasis is given to these early activities, as they have the greatest impact on the system development. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 deal with respectively Detailed Design and Development, Construction and/or Production, and Operational Use and Support. Chapter 8 deals with the broad topic of systems engineering management and details some of the associated activities.
Systems and systems engineering
What is a system?
Definition of a System
Types of Systems
A System and its Environment
A System as a Product
A System as a Capability — A Capability System
Logical and Physical Descriptions of a System
Hierarchical Descriptions of a System
System-of-systems (SoS)
System life cycle
Parties Involved
Acquisition and utilization phases
Acquisition Phase
Utilization Phase and Retirement Phase
Systems engineering and development approaches
What is systems engineering?
Top-down Approach
Requirements Engineering
Focus on Life Cycle
System Optimization and Balance
Integration of Disciplines and Specializations
Management
Systems engineering relevance
Systems engineering benefits
Requirements engineering framework
Needs and Requirements Documentation
What is a Requirement?
What not How
Emergent Properties
What is requirements engineering?
Why We Need Requirements
Why We Need Requirements Engineering
Requirements elicitation and elaboration
Requirements validation
Requirements documentation
Requirements management
Requirements Change Management
Change Management—Traceability
Requirements Management Tools
Requirements-engineering tools
Requirements Breakdown Structure (RBS)
Functional Flow Block Diagrams (FFBDs)
Conceptual design
C1—define business needs and requirements
Identify Major Stakeholders and Constraints
Elicit Business Needs
Scope System
Define Business Requirements
Finalise Business Needs and Requirements (BNR)
C2—define stakeholder needs and requirements
Define Stakeholder Needs
Define Stakeholders Requirements
C3—Define system requirements
Establish Requirements Framework
Perform Requirements Analysis and Allocation
Draft System Requirement Specification (SyRS)
Define Technical Performance Measures (TPM)
Conduct System Requirements Reviews (SRR)
C4 — Conduct system-level synthesis
C5— Conduct system design review (SDR)
Preliminary design
Requirements allocation
Interface identification and design
Subsystem-level synthesis and evaluation
Investigate Design Alternatives
Make Optimal Use of Design Space
Preliminary design review (PDR)
Detailed design and development
Detailed design of hardware
Detailed design of software
Integrating system elements
Detailed design reviews
Construction and/or production
Production requirements
Engineering management issues
Operational use and system support
Systems engineering management
Technical review and audit management
Verification and verification
Technical risk management
Configuration management
Systems engineering management planning