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What is middle-out systems engineering?

Middle-out approaches concurrently combine the best aspects oftraditional top-down and subsystem-level bottom up developmentmethods. But is it enough?

Middle-out approaches concurrently combine the best aspects of traditional top-down and subsystem-level bottom up development methods. But is it enough? By John Blyler, Founding Systems Engineering, JB Systems In school, systems engineering is taught as a top-down process, but in actual practice is involved bottom-up techniques. In the former, the desired system is broken down or partitioned into smaller subsystem …

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Threading Together the Twins in a Contextually Relevant Digital World

The emergence and usefulness of digital continuity, twins and threads, is a direct result of the ongoing process of digitizing the physical world. Digitization of the Manufacturing World Digitization is the conversion of the physical world to a digital equivalent. It represents the convergence of the real and the virtual worlds. This conversion has been accelerated with the emergence of …

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Hollywood Seeks Science Help with Einstein Series

USC Physicist Dr. Johnson addresses the need for science in today’s movies and the struggles between scientists and engineers. By John Blyler, Editor, JB System Tech and Media Quotable Quotes: It is still very much an anomaly that a Hollywood story involving science gets a science advisor. … scientists view the world and most aspects of their life through the …

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