The engineering design of systems : models and methods / Dennis M. Buede, William D. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buede, Dennis M., author.

Miller, William D., author.

Series:

Wiley series in systems engineering and management.

Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Systems engineering.

Engineering design.

System design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New for the third edition, chapters on: Complete Exercise of the SE Process, System Science and Analytics and The Value of Systems Engineering The book takes a model-based approach to key systems engineering design activities and introduces methods and models used in the real world. This book is divided into three major parts: (1) Introduction, Overview and Basic Knowledge, (2) Design and Integration Topics, (3) Supplemental Topics. The first part provides an introduction to the issues associated with the engineering of a system. The second part covers the critical material required to understand the major elements needed in the engineering design of any system: requirements, architectures (functional, physical, and allocated), interfaces, and qualification. The final part reviews methods for data, process, and behavior modeling, decision analysis, system science and analytics, and the value of systems engineering. Chapter 1 has been rewritten to integrate the new chapters and updates were made throughout the original chapters. Provides an overview of modeling, modeling methods associated with SysML, and IDEF0 Includes a new Chapter 12 that provides a comprehensive review of the topics discussed in Chapters 6 through 11 via a simple system - an automated soda machine Features a new Chapter 15 that reviews General System Theory, systems science, natural systems, cybernetics, systems thinking, quantitative characterization of systems, system dynamics, constraint theory, and Fermi problems and guesstimation Includes a new Chapter 16 on the value of systems engineering with five primary value propositions: systems as a goal-seeking system, systems engineering as a communications interface, systems engineering to avert showstoppers, systems engineering to find and fix errors, and systems engineering as risk mitigation The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods, Third Edition is designed to be an introductory reference for professionals as well as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in systems engineering.

Contents:

The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods

Contents

Preface

About the Companion Website

Part 1: Introduction, Overview, and Basic Knowledge

Chapter 1: Introduction to Systems Engineering

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Overview of the Engineering of Systems

1.3 Approaches for Implementing Systems Engineering

1.3.1 TTDSE

1.3.2 The Waterfall Model of Software Engineering

1.3.3 The Spiral Model of Software Engineering

1.3.4 Object-Oriented Design

1.4 Modeling Approaches for Systems Engineering

1.4.1 Modeling Approaches for TTDSE

1.4.2 UML

1.4.3 DoDAF

1.4.4 SysML

1.5 Introducing the Concept of Architectures

1.6 Requirements

1.7 System's Life Cycle

1.8 Design and Integration Process

1.9 Types of Systems

1.10 Summary

Chapter 2: Overview of the Systems Engineering Design Process

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Design Process

2.2.1 Key Terms

2.2.2 Design

2.2.3 Integration and Qualification

2.3 Key Systems Engineering Concepts

2.3.1 Operational Concept

2.3.2 External Systems Diagram

2.3.3 Objectives Hierarchy

2.3.4 Requirements

2.3.5 Functions

2.3.6 Items

2.3.7 Components

2.3.8 Interfaces

2.3.9 Verification

2.3.10 Validation

2.3.11 Acceptance

2.4 Introduction to Sysml

2.5 Use of Core (Systems Engineering Tool)

2.5.1 Classes

2.5.2 Relations

2.5.3 Documents

2.6 Summary

Chapter 3: Modeling and Sysml Modeling

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Models and Modeling

3.3 Sysml Modeling

3.4 Meta-System Modeling

3.5 Static Behavioral Process Modeling With IDEF0

3.5.1 IDEF0 Semantics or Elements

3.5.2 IDEF0 Diagram Syntax

3.5.3 IDEF0 Model Syntax

3.5.4 IDEF0 Advanced Concepts

3.5.5 Systems Engineering Use of IDEF0 Models

3.6 Dynamic Behavioral Process Modeling With EFFBDs.

3.7 Structural Modeling of the System'S Components

3.8 Requirements Modeling

3.9 Performance Modeling

3.10 Summary

Chapter 4: Discrete Mathematics: Sets, Relations, and Functions

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Sets

4.2.1 Writing Set Membership

4.2.2 Describing Members of a Set

4.2.3 Special Sets

4.2.4 Operations on Sets

4.2.5 Partitions

4.2.6 Power Set

4.3 Relations

4.3.1 Ordered Pairs and Cartesian Products

4.3.2 Unary and Binary Relations

4.3.3 Properties of Unary Relations on A

4.3.4 Partial Ordering

4.3.5 Equivalence Relations

4.4 Functions

4.4.1 Definitions

4.4.2 Composition

4.5 Summary

Chapter 5: Graphs and Directed Graphs (Digraphs)

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Terminology

5.3 Paths and Cycles

5.4 Connectedness

5.5 Adjacency and Reachability

5.6 Unary Relations and Digraphs

5.7 Ordering Relations

5.8 Isomorphisms

5.9 Trees

5.9.1 Spanning Trees

5.9.2 Directed Trees

5.9.3 Forest

5.10 Finding Cycles and Semicycles in a Graph

5.11 Revisiting IDEF0 Diagrams

5.12 Summary

Part 2: Design and Integration

Chapter 6: Requirements and Defining the Design Problem

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Requirements

6.3 Definitions

6.4 Stakeholders' Requirements Development: Defining the Design Problem

6.5 Requirements Categories

6.6 Requirements Partition

6.7 Stakeholders' Requirements Document (Stkhldrsrd)

6.8 Characteristics of Sound Requirements

6.9 Writing Requirements

6.10 Operational Concept

6.11 External Systems Diagram

6.12 Objectives Hierarchy for Performance Requirements

6.13 Prototyping, Analyses, and Usability Testing

6.14 Defining the Stakeholders' Requirements

6.14.1 Input/Output Requirements

6.14.2 System-Wide and Technology Requirements

6.14.3 Trade-Off Requirements

6.14.4 Qualification Requirements.

6.15 Requirements Management

6.16 Summary

Chapter 7: Functional Architecture Development

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Defining Terminology for a Functional Architecture

7.3 Functional Architecture Development

7.3.1 Functional Architecture Process Model

7.3.2 Decomposition versus Composition

7.4 Defining a System'S Functions

7.4.1 Approaches for Defining Functions

7.4.2 Typical Functional Decompositions by Life Cycle Phase

7.4.3 Feedback and Control in Functional Design

7.4.4 Evaluation of a Functional Hierarchy

7.5 Development of the Functional Decomposition

7.6 Finishing the Functional Architecture

7.7 Tracing Requirements to Elements of the Functional Architecture

7.8 Summary

Chapter 8: Physical Architecture Development

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Generic Versus Instantiated Physical Architectures

8.3 Overview of Physical Architecture Development

8.4 Creativity Techniques

8.4.1 Morphological Box

8.4.2 Option Creation Techniques

8.5 Graphic Representations of the Physical Architecture

8.6 Issues in Physical Architecture Development

8.6.1 Major Concepts for Physical Architectures

8.6.2 Design Flexibility

8.6.3 Design Advantages of Product Platforms

8.6.4 Use of Redundancy to Achieve Fault Tolerance

8.7 Summary

Chapter 9: Allocated Architecture Development

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Overview

9.3 Allocate Functions to Components

9.3.1 Define the Allocation Problem

9.3.2 Approaches for Solving the Allocation Problem

9.3.3 Finishing the Allocation Problem

9.4 Trace Non-Input/Output Requirements and Derive Requirements

9.4.1 Derive Internal Input/Output Requirements

9.4.2 Trace System-Wide Requirements and Derive Subsystem-Wide Requirements

9.4.3 Trace Trade-Off Requirements and Derive Subsystem Trade-Off Requirements.

9.4.4 Trace Qualification Requirements and Derive Subsystem Qualification Requirements

9.5 Define and Analyze Functional Activation and Control Structure

9.6 Conduct Performance and Risk Analyses

9.7 Document Architectures and Obtain Approval

9.8 Document Subsystem Specifications

9.9 Summary

Chapter 10: Interface Design

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Overview of Interface Development

10.3 Interface Architectures

10.3.1 Message Passing Architectures

10.3.2 Shared Memory Architectures

10.3.3 Network Architectures

10.4 Standards

10.5 Open Systems Interconnection Architecture

10.6 Common Object Request Broker Architecture

10.7 Interface Design Process

10.8 Summary

Chapter 11: Integration and Qualification

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Distinctions Among Acceptance, Validation, and Verification Testing

11.3 Overview of Integration

11.4 Alternate Integration Processes

11.5 Some Qualification Terminology

11.6 Defining the Qualification System

11.7 Qualification Methods

11.8 Acceptance Testing

11.8.1 Deciding What to Test

11.8.2 Usability

11.9 Summary

Chapter 12: A Complete Exercise of the Systems Engineering Process

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Operational Concept

12.3 External Systems Diagram

12.4 Fundamental Objectives

12.5 Stakeholders' Requirements

12.6 Functional Architecture

12.7 Physical and Allocated Architectures

12.8 Interface Design

12.9 Integration and Qualification

12.10 Beginning the Subsystem Layer

Part 3: Supplemental Topics

Chapter 13: Graphical Modeling Techniques

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Data Modeling

13.2.1 Entity-Relationship Diagrams

13.2.2 Higraphs

13.3 Process Modeling

13.3.1 Data Flow Diagrams

13.3.2 N-Squared (N) Charts

13.4 Behavior Modeling

13.4.1 Behavior Diagrams.

13.4.2 Finite-State Machines and State Transition Diagrams

13.4.3 Statecharts

13.4.4 Control Flow Diagrams

13.4.5 Petri Nets

13.5 Summary

Chapter 14: Decision Analysis for Design Trades

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Elements of Decision Problems

14.3 Axioms of Decision Analysis

14.4 Multiattribute Value Analysis

14.4.1 Eliciting Value Functions

14.4.2 Eliciting Value Weights

14.4.2.1 Direct Weight Elicitation Techniques

14.4.2.2 Indirect Weight Elicitation Techniques

14.5 Uncertainty in Decisions

14.5.1 Probability Theory

14.5.2 Relevance Diagrams

14.5.3 Influence Diagrams and Decision Trees

14.5.4 Risk Preference and Expected Utility

14.5.4.1 Assessing a Risk Preference Function

14.5.4.2 Exponential Risk Preference

14.6 Sample Application

14.6.1 MPWS Overview

14.6.2 Operational Concept for MPWS

14.6.3 External Systems Diagram

14.6.4 Requirements

14.6.4.1 Utility Curves

14.6.4.2 Weights

14.6.5 Use of Utility Curves and Weights

14.6.6 Conclusions

14.7 Summary

Chapter 15: The Science and Analysis of Systems

15.1 Introduction

15.2 General System Theory

15.3 Systems Science

15.4 Natural Systems

15.5 Cybernetics

15.6 Systems Thinking

15.7 Quantitative Characterization of Systems

15.7.1 Elevator

15.7.2 Soda Machine

15.7.3 Aircraft

15.8 System Dynamics

15.9 Constraint Theory

15.10 Fermi Problems and Guesstimation

15.11 Summary

Chapter 16: The Value of Systems Engineering

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Value Propositions for Systems Engineering

16.2.1 Systems Engineering as a Goal-Seeking System

16.2.2 Systems Engineering as a Communications Interface

16.2.3 Systems Engineering to Avert Showstoppers

16.2.4 Systems Engineering to Find and Fix Errors

16.2.5 Systems Engineering as Risk Mitigation.

16.2.6 Continuous Improvement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 526-542) and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-02806-X

OCLC:

926050644