"Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles."
The design of complex systems and the management of their development, implementation, and maintenance.
Systems Thinking: A holistic approach to understanding the system and its interrelationships with its environment.
Systems Analysis: A process of identifying the objectives of the system, analyzing the available resources, and developing a plan to achieve these objectives.
Requirements Analysis: A process of identifying, documenting, and validating the requirements of the system to ensure it meets the needs of the stakeholders.
Architecture Design: A process of designing the system's overall structure and defining its subsystems and their interrelationships.
Modeling and Simulation: The creation of models that represent the system and its behavior, and simulation to verify and test the system's design.
Verification and Validation: The process of ensuring that the system meets its requirements and performs its intended function through testing and evaluation.
Risk Management: The process of identifying potential risks and developing strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
Configuration Management: The process of managing the system's configuration, including changes, documentation, and version control.
Project Management: The planning, organizing, and managing of resources to achieve specific goals within defined constraints.
Lifecycle Management: The process of managing a system throughout its entire lifecycle, from conception to retirement, including planning, design, implementation, and maintenance.
"At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking principles to organize this body of knowledge."
"The individual outcome of such efforts, an engineered system, can be defined as a combination of components that work in synergy to collectively perform a useful function."
"Issues such as requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, testing and evaluation, maintainability and many other disciplines necessary for successful system design, development, implementation, and ultimate decommission become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects."
"Systems engineering overlaps technical and human-centered disciplines such as industrial engineering, production systems engineering, process systems engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, control engineering, software engineering, electrical engineering, cybernetics, aerospace engineering, organizational studies, civil engineering, and project management."
"Systems engineering ensures that all likely aspects of a project or system are considered and integrated into a whole."
"The systems engineering process is a discovery process that is quite unlike 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."
"The systems engineering process must begin by... identifying the most probable or highest-impact failures that can occur."
"Systems engineering deals with work-processes, optimization methods, and risk management tools in such projects."
"Systems engineering involves finding solutions to these problems."
"Systems engineering overlaps... project management."
"Systems engineering overlaps... mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, control engineering, software engineering, electrical engineering, cybernetics, aerospace engineering, civil engineering."
"Systems engineering focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex 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 design, development, implementation, and ultimate decommission become more difficult when dealing with large or complex projects."
"At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking principles to organize this body of knowledge."
"The individual outcome of such efforts, an engineered system, can be defined as a combination of components that work in synergy to collectively perform a useful function."
"Systems engineering ensures that all likely aspects of a project or system are considered and integrated into a whole."
"Systems engineering deals with... risk management tools in such projects."
"The systems engineering process is a discovery process that involves finding solutions to these problems."