Systems Engineering & Science

The Forgotten Importance of the System Context

Developing a comprehensive system context using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) tools will help you engineer solutions the right problems.

By John Blyler, JB Systems and Bill Chown, Siemens Mentor Graphics Most engineers would prefer to do design work than spend much time on the often onerous task of requirements identification, derivation and allocation. The sooner they are given the relevant requirements, the sooner they can begin the work for which most engineers in the traditional domains have been educated–namely, …

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Augmenting System Change

Design experts from many domains have a new way to collaborate change that doesn’t affect their tool flow or development process. By John Blyler, Founding Advisor And Affiliate Professor, Systems Engineering Department, Portland State University The one constant in the design of complex systems has been the necessity to communicate and manage change. Since the earliest days of modern systems …

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“Engineering Management Redux! (Or Managing the Management of Complexity)”

What new challenges face those managing the development of complex systems? Find out in this Incose presentation by John Blyler – experienced systems engineer, author and professor. INCOSE & SAE NW Section Joint Meeting Today’s engineers must work on projects of increasing complexity, shrinking time-to-market windows and with globally distributed, interdisciplinary team members. Aggregation within almost all traditional market supply chains …

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