Systems approach to engineering design

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 14
1.1 Systems Engineering Briefly Explained......Page 16
1.2 Overview of Systems Thinking......Page 25
1.3 Modern Systems Thinking in Engineering......Page 31
1.4 Role of Test and Evaluation......Page 35
1.5 Application of SE to Design......Page 37
1.6 Summary......Page 38
2.1 Systems and SE: Understanding Interpretations......Page 40
2.2 Overview of PM......Page 46
2.3 Overview of SE......Page 51
2.4 Comparison of the Roles of PM and SE......Page 55
2.5 Role of Quality and T&E in Systems Development......Page 56
2.6 Integrating the Hard and Soft Aspects of System Design......Page 60
2.7 Setting Up SE Activity for a Project......Page 63
2.8 Summary......Page 65
3.1 Team Requirements: An Example Start-Up......Page 68
3.2 Staffing Aspect of the Design Team......Page 70
3.3 Premises and Equipment......Page 81
3.4 Managing Staff Turnover......Page 82
3.5 Organizational Structures Used in Different Kinds of Businesses......Page 83
3.6 Staff Appointments......Page 86
3.7 Staff Selection......Page 89
3.8 Competency-Based Methodology......Page 92
3.9 Staff Development......Page 93
3.10 Team Culture......Page 96
3.11 Summary......Page 100
4.1 The IT System of the Design Office......Page 102
4.2 Tool Features......Page 111
4.3 Major Software Tools Used......Page 118
4.4 Specialized Software Tools......Page 120
4.5 Internet Application and Other On-Line Operations......Page 122
4.6 Some IT Jargon......Page 126
4.7 Summary......Page 127
5.1 Life Cycle from Need to Delivered System......Page 130
5.2 Nature of the Engineering Design Process......Page 134
5.3 Design of Multidisciplinary Systems......Page 139
5.4 Practical Application of Design Processes......Page 146
5.5 Reticulation of Design Activity......Page 149
5.6 Tree Diagrams as Generators of Ideas and Control of Activities......Page 152
5.7 Functional Decomposition and Functional Analysis......Page 153
5.8 Summary......Page 157
6.1 Customer, User, Designer, and Vendor Relationships......Page 158
6.2 Requirements Generation......Page 167
6.3 Specifications......Page 178
6.4 ConOps......Page 180
6.6 Summary......Page 184
7.1 Gathering Information in Support of a Design......Page 186
7.2 Parameter and Ideas Generation......Page 192
7.4 Checklists......Page 195
7.5 Decision-Making in Design......Page 196
7.6 Selected Decision Support Methods......Page 200
7.8 Summary......Page 207
8.1 Importance of Design Optimization......Page 210
8.3 Sources of Design Sensitivity......Page 215
8.4 Influence Effects on Designs......Page 220
8.5 Optimization Methods......Page 224
8.6 Project Reviews......Page 228
8.7 Summary......Page 232
9.1 What Is Quality?......Page 234
9.2 The “ilities”......Page 237
9.3 Types of Reliability Assessment......Page 242
9.4 Reliability Acceptance Issues......Page 248
9.5 Safety in Design......Page 249
9.6 Upgrading a Design......Page 253
9.7 Configuration Management and Other Records......Page 254
9.8 Designing for Disposal......Page 256
9.9 System Evaluation......Page 257
9.10 Summary......Page 262
10.1 Impact of the Law on Design Outcomes......Page 264
10.2 Legal Drivers for Doing Best Practice Design......Page 270
10.3 Legal Liability......Page 273
10.4 Product Recall......Page 280
10.5 Expert Witness Activity......Page 283
10.6 Security Issues......Page 285
10.7 Summary......Page 288
11.1 System and Product Development Overview......Page 290
11.2 Creating Prototypes......Page 294
11.3 Model-Based Prototyping......Page 295
11.4 Creating Models......Page 299
11.5 Physical Prototyping Practice......Page 305
11.6 Experimentation and Its Use in Design Evaluation......Page 310
11.8 Summary......Page 313
12.1 Improvements......Page 316
12.2 Technology Forecasting......Page 320
12.3 Process Reengineering......Page 321
12.4 The Individual and Change Management......Page 325
12.5 Likely Changes in the Foreseeable Future......Page 326
12.6 Summary......Page 329
List of Acronyms......Page 332
About the Author......Page 336
Index......Page 338