Results of Applying a Families-of-Systems Approach to Systems Engineering of Product Line Families ICTT, Incorporated and System Sciences, LLC

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Schindel, William D., author.

Conference Name:

International Truck and Bus Meeting & Exposition (2002-11-18 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2002

Summary:

Most of the history of systems engineering has been focused on processes for engineering a single complex system. However, most large enterprises design, manufacture, operate, sell, or support not one product but multiple product lines of related but varying systems. They seek to optimize time to market, costs of development and production, leverage of intellectual assets, best use of talented human resources, overall competitiveness, overall profitability and productivity. Optimizing globally across multiple product lines does not follow from treating each system family member as an independently engineered system or product. Traditional systems engineering principles can be generalized to apply to families. This article includes a multi-year case study of the actual use of a generic model-based systems engineering methodology for families, Systematica, across the embedded electronic systems products of one of the world's largest manufacturers of heavy equipment

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Publisher Number:

2002-01-3086

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license