Table of Contents

Overview

1            INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ENGINEERING                             1

1.1                        What is a System?                                                                                            2

1.2                        System Life cycle                                                                                             4

1.3                        What Is Systems Engineering?                                                                       8

1.4                        Systems Engineering Relevance                                                                  13

1.5                        Systems Engineering Benefits                                                                      14

1.6                        Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation                                                            16

1.7                        A Systems Engineering Framework                                                            18

1.8                        Revision Questions                                                                                        22

2            CONCEPTUAL DESIGN                                                                   27

2.1                        Introduction                                                                                                    27

2.2                        Identify stakeholder requirements                                                              27

2.3                        System Feasibility Analysis                                                                         38

2.4                        System Requirements Analysis                                                                   39

2.5                        System-Level Synthesis                                                                                54

2.6                        System Design Review (SDR)                                                                      57

2.7                        Review Questions                                                                                          59

3            PRELIMINARY DESIGN                                                                  63

3.1                        Introduction                                                                                                    63

3.2                        Subsystem Requirements Analysis                                                             63

3.3                        Requirements Allocation                                                                              67

3.4                        RBS versus WBS                                                                                            74

3.5                        Interface Identification and Design                                                            75

3.6                        Subsystem-level Synthesis and Evaluation                                               78

3.7                        Preliminary Design Review (PDR)                                                              85

3.8                        Review Questions                                                                                          88

4            DETAILED DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT                                   91

4.1                        Introduction                                                                                                    91

4.2                        Detailed Design Requirements                                                                    91

4.3                        Designing and Integrating System Elements                                              92

4.4                        System Prototype Development                                                                  97

4.5                        Detailed Design Reviews                                                                              98

4.6                        Construction and/or Production                                                                101

4.7                        Operational Use and System Support                                                       104

4.8                        Phase-out and Disposal                                                                              109

4.9                        Review Questions                                                                                        110

5            SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT                                 113

5.1                        Introduction                                                                                                  113

5.2                        Technical Reviews and Audits                                                                  113

5.3                        Test and Evaluation                                                                                     118

5.4                        Technical Risk Management                                                                      129

5.5                        Configuration Management                                                                       135

5.6                        Specifications and Standards                                                                     142

5.7                        Integration Management                                                                             147

5.8                        Systems Engineering Management Planning                                           148

5.9                        Review Questions                                                                                        149

6            SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT TOOLS                    153

6.1                        Standards                                                                                                      153

6.2                        Capability Maturity Models                                                                       175

6.3                        review Questions                                                                                         182

7            SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROCESS TOOLS                              185

7.1                        Analysis Tools—Requirements Engineering                                          185

7.2                        Synthesis—Various Tools                                                                          199

7.3                        Evaluation—Trade-Off Analysis                                                              201

7.4                        Review Questions                                                                                        205

8            RELATED DISCIPLINES                                                                209

8.1                        Introduction                                                                                                  209

8.2                        Project Management                                                                                    209

8.3                        Quality Assurance                                                                                       213

8.4                        Logistics Support                                                                                         214

8.5                        Operations                                                                                                    215

8.6                        Design Support Network                                                                            216

8.7                        Software Engineering                                                                                  216

8.8                        Hardware Engineering                                                                                218

8.9                        Review Questions                                                                                        219

GLOSSARY                                                                                                    221

INDEX                                                                                                            225

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