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Electricity Distribution Network Design Course Description

Electricity Distribution Network Design covers  general aspects of transmission and generation the planning and design of modern distribution systems. Computer-based planning and reliability is also important part of modern planning.

Electricity Distribution Network Design Training Course is entirely devoted to the planning and design of modern distribution  systems including computer-based planning and reliability.

Other topics covered are Design, construction standards, implications of international standards, network information systems, correct/safe work practices and improvement of distribution systems for senior distribution engineers.

Basic Concepts behind distribution design & planning process will be discussed including: business requirements, project management, technical design, accurate system design procedures, physical planning, cost management, service agreements, and negotiations.

TONEX is a training facility and has  years of experience in training of electricity distribution utility engineers and technicians. The course includes workshops, exercises, group project, field visit, classroom training facilities and labs.

Our trainers has over  years of experience working in electricity utility industry/consulting company and conducting training to international utility engineers and technicians.
They have good understanding of the network rehabilitation and construction techniques around electricity networks.

Electricity Distribution Network Design Training Topics Include:

• Theory and Practical
• Introduction to Electrical Power Systems
• General Principles of Planning
• Distribution System Planning & Design for Engineers and Technicians
• Distribution Network Planing and Design
• Introduction to Methodologies and Strategies of Power System Distribution Systems
• Basic Concepts of Power Distribution Network Design for Transmission Systems
• Introduction to Distribution Systems and Power Circuit Analysis
• Introduction to Distribution Transformers, Grounding and Protection
• Concepts behind  single-phase /, and -phase systems that include / delta, / open delta, Y/, and Y/
• Concepts behind Overhead and Underground Distribution Systems
• Basic Concepts of Distribution Surge Protection
• Basic Concepts of Switching Rates
• Basic Concepts of System Losses
• Introduction to Engineering and Design
• Basic Concepts of Distribution Planning and Reliability Assessment
• Introduction to Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Applications on Power Systems
• Basic Concepts of Low-voltage Secondary Networks
• Introduction to  Power Distribution System Economics
• Introduction to  Distribution Automation Analysis for the Smart Grid
• Advanced Concepts of Planing, Design, Engineering, Calculating, Evaluating and Optimizing  Network Plans
• Safety Aspects Inside a Distribution System
• Simulation
• Site Visit

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Who Should Attend

Electricity utilities personnel, electricity utility engineers, electricity utility technicians involved in  electricity distribution systems planing and design. Anyone who has responsibility for the planning, architecture,  design, construction, operation, and line and substation technicians and engineers.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the participants will:

• Understand basics concepts of electrical power system distribution planning and design
• Understand Power Distribution System Economics
• Understand General Principles of Planning
• List Distribution System Planning & Design for Engineers and Technicians
• Identify Distribution Network Planning and Design Process Steps
• Comprehend Methodologies and Strategies of Power System Distribution Systems
• Understand Distribution Transformers, Grounding and Protection
• List Basic Concepts of Distribution Surge Protection
• List Basic Concepts of Switching Rates
• List Basic Concepts of System Losses
• List Basic Concepts of Distribution Planning and Reliability Assessment
• Comprehend Advanced Concepts of Planning, Design, Engineering, Calculating, Evaluating and Optimizing  Network Plans

Outline

Power Systems General Background  

• Basic Concepts
• Electricity Supply Industry
  • Transmission System Operator (TSO)
  • Transmission System Asset Owner (TAO)
  • Distribution System Operator (DSO)

• Basic Network Theory
  • Synchronous Machines
  • Balanced Short Circuit analysis
  • Synchronous Generators in parallel
  • Generator Operation on Infinite Bus
  • Synchronous Machine Characteristics
  • Salient Pole Generators
  • Automatic Voltage Regulators
  • Lines, Cables and Transformers
  • Overhead Line types and parameters
  • Representation of Lines
  • Parameters of Underground Cables
  • Transformers
  • Voltage Characteristics of Loads
  • Control of Power & Frequency
  • System Monitoring & Control
  • System Security & Emergency Control
• Basic Power System Economics
  • Basic Pricing Principles
  • Supply side and Demand side options
  • Load Management and Spot Pricing
  • Electricity Pricing and Markets
  • Demand Side Management
  • Transmission and Distribution Charging Mechanisms

Electricity Distribution Network Design Considerations

• Reliability
• Sizing conductors for load and for voltage drop
• Planning Distribution Networks
• Technical Considerations
• Equipment
  • HV Networks And Substations
  • Distribution Substations And LV Networks
  • Special Loads
  • Network Voltage Performance
  • Computer Based Planning

What is a Distribution Network?

• Introduction
• Scope
• Regulatory and Economic Aspects
• Power Electronics in the Future Distribution Grid
• Virtual Power Systems for Active Networks
• Smart Grids
• Introduction to Distribution Systems and Power Circuit Analysis
  • Distribution Transformers, Grounding and Protection
  • Distribution Surge Protection
  • Understanding System Losses
  • Substation Engineering and Design
  • Distribution Planning and Reliability Assessment
  • Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Applications on Power Systems
  • Low-voltage Secondary Networks
  • Power Distribution System Economics

Structure and Characteristics of  Distribution Network

• Introduction
• Characteristics of Distribution Networks
• Impacts of Distributed Generation on the Electrical Network
• Photovoltaic Systems Connected to the Network
• Voltage Control in Distribution Systems with Dispersed Generation
• Grid Integration of Wind Turbine Systems and their Ancillary Services Participation
• Reliability of Distribution Systems with Dispersed Generation
• Protection, Detection and Isolation of Faults in MV Networks in the Presence of Decentralized Production
• Load Control in the Management of Distribution Systems
• Decentralized Means of Production
• Connection to the Decentralized Production Network
• Busbars that  represent “electrical nodes”
• Network reliability determines the choice of  substation structure
• Concepts and constraints concerning the load
• Load characteristics
• Transmission and distribution systems operators
• Quality and reliability requirements and economical  impact
• Distributed generation
• Integration of new technologies
• Transfer on the electricity vector
• Desired evolution of the distribution system towards  intelligent systems
• The link between investment and quality
• Financing mechanisms and investment actors of distribution systems

Electricity Distribution Network Design and Planning

• Characteristics of Distribution Networks
  • Signal characteristics: voltage level and frequency
  • Distribution networks structures
  • Protection plan
  • Characteristics of loads
  • Characteristics of faults
  • Rules of connection
  • Voltage levels and standards relative to proper
  • functioning of North American-type distribution networks
  • Protection of the electrical network
  • Elements specific to the electrical network
  • The Supply System
    • The primary aim of the electricity supply system
    • Planning distribution networks
    • The planning and design of electricity distribution networks
    • Strategic or long-term planning
    • Major investments and the main network configurations
    • Network planning or design vs. construction design

• Network Design & Planning
  • General Principles
  • Plant & Circuit Ratings
  • Project Design
  • Fault Levels
  • Short Circuit Rating
  • Protection
  • Interconnections
  • Asset Replacement
  • Costs
  • Voltage Limits
  • Load Balancing
  • Load Flow
  • System Assessments
  • Reinforcement Methods
  • Weather Corrections
  • Load Growth Trends and Analysis
  • Design and Planning  V &  kV
  • Plant & Ratings
  • Parameters
  • Interconnections
  • Midterm and Long Term Planning
  • Plant & Cable Capacities
  • Loadings & Voltage Drops
  • Layout Designs
  • Domestic & Commercial Supplies
  • Industrial Supplies
  • Planning Consent
  • Legal Aspects
  • Sensitive Areas
  • Project Assignment
• Technical Considerations
  • Technical Design
  • Thermal Ratings
  • Voltage Regulation
  • Quality of Supply
  • Calculations and Models
  • Normal and abnormal operating conditions
  • Effect of the loss of any item of equipment on the supplies to customers
  • Quality of supply, e.g. voltage fluctuations
  • Amount of time a customer may be off supply
  • Safety of the public and the utility staff
  • Effect of transient and permanent system faults on both utility and customer-owned equipment
• Power Distribution Network Design
  • Knee frequency (fknee)
  • Target impedance (ztarget)
  • Voltage regulator modules (vrms)
  • Capacitors
  • Plane capacitance
  • Interconnection inductance
  • Effectiveness of capacitors
  • Methodologies for design
  • Distribution general conditions
  • Distribution planning code
  • Distribution connection conditions
  • Generator requirements
  • 11 kV and 33 kV overhead line (pole lines) construction, rehabilitation and maintenance
  • 11 kV and 33 kV Underground Cable installation, operation and maintenance
  • 33/11 kV substation installation, testing and commissioning
  • 11/0.4 kV distribution transformer testing, repairs and maintenance
• Reliability
  • Frequency of interruptions
  •  Duration of each interruption
  • Reliability of individual items of equipment, circuit length and loading, network configuration, distribution automation, load profile and available transfer capacity
  • Reliability aspects associated with the line equipment, including reclosers, sectionalizers, cutouts, series reactors, and current-limiting fuses
• Economic Principles
  • Asset
  • Technical and economic assessments

• Use of the Distribution System
  • Structure of Distribution Code
  • Distribution General Conditions (DGC)
  • Distribution Planning Code (DPC)
  • Distribution Connection Conditions (DCC)
  • Distribution Operating Code (DOC)
  • Distribution Operating Code
    • Demand Forecasting
    • Operational Planning
    • Demand Control
    • Operational Communications and Liaison
    • Event Reporting
    • System Tests
    • Monitoring, Testing and Investigation
    • Safety Co-ordination
  • Distribution Data registration Code
    • Generating Unit Data
    • Demand Forecasts
    • Operational Planning
    • System Design Information
    • Load Characteristics

• Required Equipment
  • HV networks and substations
    • High-voltage systems
    • Link between major transmission and medium voltage distribution systems
    •  single and multi-bus bar arrangement
    •  Large open-air layouts or low-volume metal-clad switchgear in purpose-designed buildings
    • Medium-voltage networks
      • Data  on the present networks, design objectives, cost parameters and possible ways of reinforcement
      • Optimizing network configurations
      • Sophisticated network-design calculations
      • Quantitative information on the status of networks
      • Determining the most suitable future network configuration
      • Optimum circuit ratings.
      • Long-term planning and the study network reliability
      • Co-operation in network planning and design
      • Workshops, Simulations, Case Studies and Group Projects
        • Capacity Planning Workshop
        •  Forecasting
        • Design Calculations

• Various theoretical, technical, economic and operational factors to be considered when planning and designing electrical distribution systems
• Construction and operating characteristics of the main components installed on distribution networks
• Main features of transformers, lines, cables and equipment
• Switchgear arrangements
• System Protection
  • Electricity distribution network
  • Requirements for safety for individual items of equipment, staff and public, and the distribution network
  • Automatic operation
  • Isolating  faults on the networks in a minimum time in order to minimize damage.
  • Minimizing the costs of non distributed energy
  • Substations and Protection
  • Switchgear
  • Line Protection
  • Plant Protection
  • Generator Protection
  • Transformer Protection
  • Feeder Protection
  • Bus Bar Protection

• MV systems for distribution
  • Use of a single higher-voltage system (- kV) to supply local LV networks directly
  • Interlink the HV and LV systems
  • Material and construction costs of – kV overhead lines
  • Costs of V line and  kV line
  • MV network between the EHV/HV and LV systems
  •  Costs of HV/MV substations
• Distribution substations and LV networks
  • Comparison of low-voltage networks and distribution systems operating at higher voltage levels
• Load data
  • Parameters affecting the network design and timing of major reinforcements,
  • Forecast load
  • Developing effective and reliable routines  d
  • Determining the losses for a particular section of the network
  • Peak demand for the utility
  • Loads on distribution circuits
  • Calculating system loadings on a statistical basis
  • Special loads
  • Irregularities on the supply voltage
  • Steel-making arc furnaces, welding equipment, induction furnaces, rolling mills and colliery winders, and railway traction
  • Rapid variations in load currents and fluctuations in the voltage at customers’ intake points
• Load Control in the Management of Distribution  Systems
  •  Objectives of load control for the distributor
  •  Controlled loads
  • Load control strategy: typical cycle
  •  Load control strategies
  • Impact of the load shedding duration
  •  Impact of the ensured supply back
  •  Load control length time and amount of power to  reduce
  •  Optimized load control
  •  Implementation of the algorithm
  •  Results for the optimized approach
• Network voltage performance
  • The quality of electricity supply
  • Sudden changes in voltage, rapid fluctuations, or unbalance of -phase voltages
  • Variations in frequency and the presence of non-linear system or load impedances
  • Transient spikes and surges may be propagated along circuits in a supply system
• Computer-based planning

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Most consulting and integration companies have endorsed TOGAF by fashioning their Frameworks around the benefits of TOGAF in order to help practitioners avoid being locked into proprietary methods, utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, and realize a greater return on investment. This has also resulted in most companies that are recruiting enterprise and domain architects requiring TOGAF certification for employees.

Wireless Training, Crash Course, Bootcamp Style, is a four-day intensive crash course designed for those needing to get up to speed, brush up in wirelss field, fill in the gaps and  gain a solid understanding of today’s wireless technologies including RF, Wireless LANs, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Mobile Networks, 3G, 4G, LTE, Satellite Communications, VSAT, Microwave, and Radars.

TONEX Wireless Crash Course is the answer to your wireless technology needs, from wireless PANs, LANs, MANs, WANs, wireless embedded internet, white space radio communicatios, machine-to-machine (M2M), wireless sensors (WSANs), cellular (GSM, GPRS, UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+, LTE, LTE Advance, CDMA, CDMA2000,EV-DO), SATCOM/VSAT, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ad, Bluetooth, Zigbee and more.

This intensive, 4-day learning experience covers the essential elements of current and future wireless communications.

TONEX Wireless Boot Camp begins with an overview of the motivations and justifications for wireless technologies and a review of the key technical constraints inherent in wireless communications. We’ll then proceed to an overview of how radio communications works, and a look at key RF challenges and new developments in fundamental wireless technologies. From there we will explore different technologies and protocols in the radio and core networks and operational scenarios. The course covers (based on the needs- can be customized.

Software Reliability Engineering Training by TONEX

Software Reliability Engineering Training teaches you how to design and develop reliable software, reliability verification and testing of the software systems.

Software Reliability Engineering Training course is intended to provide attendees with critical knowledge and skills applied to software reliability and software reliability engineering on real world projects.   Software Reliability Engineering Training is a 3 day course focuses on proactive principles and methods to predict software reliability before the coding is started.

Who Should Attend

• Systems engineers
• Software managers
• Reliability engineers
• Testing engineers
• Engineering managers
• Lead software architect
• Software quality assurance engineers

By attending Software Reliability Training at TONEX, You Will Learn:

• About principles of software development
• Application of reliability and reliability engineering in software
• About software reliability standards and tools
• How to establish reliable software systems objectives
• How to develop software reliability operational profiles
• How to prepare and execute reliability test cases
• Use reliability formula and reliability software tools
• How to predict software reliability
• How to predict defects, failure rate, MTTF, MTBF, MTTCF (Mean Time to Critical Failure), availability, reliability and defect density of the software
• Use Design FMEA to understand failure and failure modes of your software
• Reliability, availability and safety of software systems
• Use Validation and Verification techniques and tools applied to software reliability
• Investigate Faults, errors, failures, defects, and bugs
• Enhance software quality and productivity
• Apply Dependability, survivability, fault tolerance and resilience of software systems
• Establish software metrics and measurements, estimation, prediction of quality and reliability
• Use open source software reliability engineering
• Relate to Web 2.0 reliability, availability and security issues
• Use supporting software reliability tools and automation
• Effect of virtualization on software reliability

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of Software Reliability Training, the attendees will learn how to:

• Develop realistic software reliability requirements for your software, products and/or systems
• Enhance your skills to create software development specifications using robust software reliability approaches and methods
• Perform software failure mode and reliability analyses
• Make recommendations to implement  cost-optimized software reliability strategies
• Collect and analyze your software test data
• Determine the “best” software reliability model and framework
• Collect and analyze your software test, verification, validation and field data
• Determine failure modes, reliability trends, root failure causes and corrective actions for your software or system software products and components
• Evaluate your software for vulnerability to cyber security attacks and critical failures
• Make recommendations for improved software reliability, safety and protection
• Lean about SFMEA, failure modes and root causes

Course Topics

Introduction to Software Reliability Engineering

• Software Failure Analysis
• Software Reliability and System Reliability
• Software Reliability Modeling Principles
• Techniques for Prediction Analysis
• Purpose of the Software FMEA
• Analyze software failure modes and root causes
• Functional Failure Modes
• Interface Failure Modes
• Detailed Design Failure Modes
• Maintenance Failure Modes
• Usability Failure Modes
• Serviceability Failure Modes
• Vulnerability Failure Modes
• Process failure modes
• Software Operational Profile

Software Reliability Measurement and Analysis

• Measurement-Based Analysis of Software Reliability
• Defect Classification
• Reliability Trend Analysis
• Field Data Analysis
• Software Metrics for Reliability Assessment
• Software Testing and Reliability
• Fault-Tolerant Software Reliability Engineering
• Software System Analysis Using Fault Trees
• Software Reliability Simulation
• Neural Networks for Software Reliability Engineering
• Software Reliability Tools
• Review of Reliability Theory, Analytical Techniques, and Basic Statistics

Software Reliability Program Management

• Reliability Data Collection & Analysis
• Reliability Modeling & Prediction Management
• Parts Control Programs
• Parts Qualification
• Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS)
• Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Reliability/Maintainability Test Planning & Control
• Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)

Software Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (SFMEA)

• FMEA applied to Software Development
• Software Failure Mode Analysis
• Process Variation Elimination
• Degree of Variability
• Software Life Cycle Trend
• Software FMEA approaches
• Applications
• Safety and Hazard Analysis, Causes, Corrective Actions and Potential Solutions
• Documentation
• Plan for Software Reliability
• Software Development Plan
• Software Configuration Management Plan
• Software Quality Assurance Plan
• Software Verification Plan
• Coding Standards
• Software Design Standard
• Software Requirements Standard
• Master Document Template
• Software Reliability Engineering Checklists
• Project Checklist
• Plan Review Checklist
• Code Review Checklist
• Document Review Checklist
• Requirements Review Checklist
• Verification Review Checklist
• Review Notes
• Code Review Sheet
• Document Review Sheet
• Software Project Management
• Software Users Guide
• Software Unit Test Plan and Procedures
• Analyzing Software Unit Test Results
• Software Integration Test Plan and Procedures
• Analyzing Software Integration Test Results
• Software Configuration Index
• Software Correlation Matrix
• Software Reliability Accomplishments Summary

Root Cause Analysis Training for Engineers

Root Cause Analysis Training for Engineers Course Description

Root cause analysis training for engineers provides the methodology, theory, and principals of the root cause analysis procedures. Root cause analysis (RCA) techniques, which is basically a problem solving method, helps you identify the root causes of failures and problems with the goal of determining ways to solve or inhibit them. The RCA is known as an effective quality approach.

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Root cause analysis training course will also help you develop an appropriate corrective action plan right after the causes of a failure is detected. The root cause analysis methods can be applied in both simple and complex processes.

Since this root cause analysis hands-on seminar is designed for engineers, the course considers the situations involving incidents, failure reports, performance problems in industrial plants, and so on. The training can be used in mechanical, chemical, electrical, and control engineering fields. The goal is to develop a logical engineering thought process instead of using some specific software.

Added Value of Root Cause Analysis Training

• Teaches you the practical methods associated with the RCA
• Determines where/when RCA is the most effective
• Encourage the RCA engineers to deliver tangible solutions to intractable problems
• Teach the RCA methods to the junior engineers
• It provides long term and permanent improvement in the organization
• It creates an analyzing mind-set that will help you in analyzing root causes of problems and incidents in other aspects of your life

Learn About:

• The logic and concept of root cause analysis
• Various techniques of brainstorming potential causes
• Different methods of collecting data
• Various tools for identifying and eliminating the causes of a problem
• Practical ways to implement solutions
• The nature, diversity, and construction of engineering problems
• Other problem solving methods
• Various categories of technical problems in the field of engineering
• Writing technical reports that include the results of root cause analysis
• Engineering cause and effect relationships
• Poor engineering characteristics
• 5 “whys”
• Difference between the RCA and problem solving
• Technical consulting for RCA
• 8D
• Gemba
• Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA)
• Cause and effect diagrams
• Cause and escape point
• Fault tree analysis
• Pareto analysis
• Mistake proofing (Poka Yoke)

TONEX Root Cause Analysis Training for Engineers Methodology

TONEX RCA training course is in the form of an interactive workshop. The seminar is composed of in-class activities including hands on practices, case studies, and workshops. During the RCA training course, participants can bring in their own sample projects and problem statements and through our coaching, conduct a root cause analysis procedure for them.

Audience

Root cause analysis training for engineers is a 2-day course designed for:

• Quality, safety, risk, and reliability engineers
• Process engineers
• Operations engineers
• Project engineers
• LEAN engineers
• 6 Sigma engineers
• Designer engineers
• IT engineers

Training Objectives

Upon the completion of root cause analysis training for engineers, attendees are able to:

• Improve the effectiveness of their problem solving skills through developing models for analyzing the complex engineering problems
• State the objectives of root cause analysis
• Describe the problem solving processes
• Apply appropriate and effective problem cause data collection methods based on the nature of each problem
• Successfully and effectively apply the root cause analysis tools
• Derive efficient and effective corrective action plans
• Understand when analytical thinking methods and when creative thinking techniques should be applied
• Provide sufficient problem solving support in the engineering situations where they are not expert of
• Use more variety of tools for analysis of engineering problems
• Discuss the bases of root cause analysis
• Search through the possible root causes of a failure that is beyond a quick fix
• Identify the event chains leading to a failure
• Recognize required actions to avoid reoccurrence of a certain problem of failure
• Create a fault tree for an accident
• Seek similar and relevant evidence in an engineering failure investigation
• Trace the causes of equipment failure or industrial incidents
• Identify high-risk situations and perform preventive action

Course Outline

Overview of Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

• Definition of RCA
• History
• Purpose of RCA
• Applications of RCA in the engineering world
• Gathering evidence and data
• Why most problem solving methods cannot identify the real root of the cause, and a solution
• Analytical vs creative thinking
• Content vs process thinking

Practical Problem Solving

• Engineering problem definition
• How to spot the right problem?
• Identifying the problem
  • Defect Creation
  • Physics of Failure
  • Human Factors
  • Life Cycle Gaps
  • Hidden Failures
• Production plant and equipment failure
  • What reliability engineering tells us about failure

• Techniques to prioritize
• Developing a clear and descriptive problem statement is crucial
• Strategies to solve problems
• Causes and their levels
• Find the roots
• Be a proactive problem solver
• Tools for Problem Understanding
  • Problem Understanding
  • The Purpose and Applications of Flowcharts
  • Using Flowcharts
  • Checklists
  • Using Critical Incidents
  • Using Performance Matrices

Understand the Process

• How every problem can lead to a process failure
• Use SIPOC to define boundaries and interrelationships
• How flow-charting can get you to the right phase of the process

Figure Out All Potential Causes

• Five options to determine all hidden causes
• Three approaches to choose or remove causes
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) approach
• Fishbone diagrams (aka. cause-and-effect diagrams)
• Tools for Problem Cause Brainstorming
  • Brainstorming to Find the Causes
  • Brainstorming Objectives and Applications
  • Templates for Brainstorming

Collecting and Analyzing Data

• How to gather relevant information
• Utilizing historical and operational records
• How to do samplings step-by-step
• Relationship between population and sampling
• Use check sheets, graphs, and tables
• Advantages of surveys, interviews, and field observation for opinions
• How to generate and use data collection checklist
• Data analysis process
• Tools for evaluating the gathered data
  • Run charts
  • Histograms
  • Pareto diagram
  • Modified scatter diagram
  • Pivot tables
• How to evaluate the soft data
  • Affinity diagrams
  • Relationship diagrams
• Integrative data analysis tools

Accidents Analysis and Role of Human Error

• Available analysis methods
• What are the causes and solutions for human errors?

How to Eliminate the Identified Root Cause?

• DeBono’s Six Hats

Facilitation Skills

• Difference between process facilitation and content expert
• Facilitation and interference choices

How to Dig into Data?

• Variables in a 3D space
• Separating the major elements
• What are the methods to compare the data

Statistical Techniques

• Statistical tests
  • t, F, and ANOVA tests
• How Excel can help you with these tests
• Using Chi-square to count data

Management Behaviors Affecting RCA Studies

• RCA affected by the cognitive biases
• Organizational culture effects
• Supportive roles

Putting the Selected Solution in Action

• Planning how you want to implement the solution
• Creating a detailed action plan
• Tree diagrams application
• How to prepare to accept the change and implement it?
• How to execute force-field assessment?

TONEX Hands-On Workshop Sample

• Practice on a project relevant to your organization
• Define the problem statement or describe the incident
• Describe the process
• Identify the right problem
• Investigate the potential causes by using the tools taught in the class
• Collect relevant data
• Use check sheets and other methods you learned
• Create sample surveys or interviews
• Use an appropriate method to analyze the data
• Develop an action plan

CSEP Training, Become CSEP Cerified by attending TONEX CSEP Certification Training and get 13 PE credits. The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) is a highly sought after certification by individuals and companies and for those engineers seeking recognition in the highly competitive field of Systems Engineering for their education, many years of experience, and  skills and knowledge.

TONEX’s CSEP Certification Training, a 3 – day CSEP Exam Preparation Course goes over important concepts for the 2 hour CSEP exam based on INCOSE manuals.

TONEX’s CSEP Certification Training, an interactive course, will place you in the best position to pass your CSEP examination on the first attempt or you can attend the course again free of charge.

To obtain a CSEP you have to demonstrate your real world experience via a formal application that includes professional references and more. CSEP Certification Training will help you with this process. You also need to pass a two-hour, 120-question, multiple-choice exam. TONEX CSEP certification training course helps you to prepare  certification exam by introducing  the systems engineering principals through INCOSE SE Handbook, which is the basis for the examination. Students will also learn the requirements for a successful CSEP application.

Upon completion of the CSEP Training class, the participant will:

• Have a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Systems Engineering, including the understanding of systems engineering management and systems engineering processes, from the INCOSE perspective
• Be well prepared for the CSEP training exam
• Be able to apply the INCOSE SE Handbook to a project
• Understand INCOSE CSEP application process

Targets: INCOSE’s CSEP Training certification is targeted towards systems engineers with five or more years of systems engineering work experience. INCOSE also offers an Associate Systems Engineering Professional (ASEP), targeted towards junior/emerging systems engineers and recent college graduates with limited systems engineering work experience.

Why is Systems Engineering Important to the Industry?

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Students who lack the work experience required for the CSEP should pursue the ASEP. The CSEP and ASEP certifications share the same examination and application form, so our CSEP Preparation course is equally well suited for both CSEP and ASEP applicants.

Prerequisites

Students should have a background in Systems Engineering prior to attending this course. Tonex  CSEP Training  is targeted towards Systems Engineers with five or more years work. CSEPs are certified against experience, education, and knowledge requirements. SE Disciplines Qualifying for SE Experience include:

• Requirements Engineering
• Risk and Opportunity Management
• Baseline Control
• Technical Planning
• Technical Effort Assessment
• Design Development
• Qualification, Verification, and Validation
• Process Definition
• Tool Support
• Training
• System Integration
• Quality Assurance
• Specialty Engineering

TONEX CSEP Training provides SE professionals with knowledge and tools to prepare for the INCOSE Certification application and exam.

Our experienced instructors work with you, tailoring the Boot Camp content to your needs. We can even conduct Boot Camp onsite at your business! Using real-life examples and interactive exercises, we teach practical ways to maintain your valuable systems engineering principals needs.

TONEX assists the students in completion of the process for certification providing examples of the following forms:

• Application for Systems Engineering Certification
• Instruction Letter to References
• Certification Reference Endorsement Form

Once the application has been approved by INCOSE, TONEX will schedule the course attendees for the exam at one of the Prometric locations. There are no prescheduled group examinations at any events.

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ABOUT CSEP TRAINING AND OTHER  INCOSE CERTIFICATION TRAINING PROGRAMS

Which Program is Right for Me?

• One of the benefits of enrolling in TONEX’s INCOSE Certification Training is the personalized assistance we can provide in determining the appropriate certification level based on your career level. All certification levels, with the exception of CSEP, require ongoing INCOSE membership. Below are some general guidelines about certification – contact us today to discuss your unique situation.

Certification Criteria

• ASSOCIATE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL (ASEP): Systems engineers with less than five years of systems engineering work experience, spanning less than three functional areas.
• CERTIFIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL (CSEP): Systems engineers possessing more than five years of direct work experience across more than three functional areas, who have professional references that can speak to this experience.
• EXPERT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL (ESEP): Systems engineers with at least 25 years of work experience (20 years if CSEP), professional leadership, and systems engineering accomplishments, substantiated by at least three work-related references.

For other Systems Engineering Training, check the catalog page

Why CSEP?

• CSEP servers the Systems engineering community to create the standard to identify and develop systems engineering professional and establishes a formal, recognized body of knowledge for the systems engineering community
• For System engineering professionals it provides a portable standard of recognition for attainment of knowledge, education, and experience
• and for Organizations/institutions, it will play as a universal, industry-approved measure of a professional’s knowledge–achieved through the independent evaluation of relevant tasks, projects, and programs

Who Should Attend

Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)

•Targeted towards Systems Engineers with five or more years work experience

•CSEPs are certified against experience, education, and knowledge requirements

•Applications must be substantiated by 3-5 references

Objectives

Upon completion of this intensive course the participants will:

• Explain Systems and Systems Engineering Processes
• Describe Requirements Analysis and Requirements Engineering Process
• Identify Project Processes
• Describe Enterprise and Agreement Processes
• List Enabling Systems Engineering Process Activities
• Explain Systems Engineering Support Activities
• Explain Specialty Engineering Activities
• Describe Training Needs Analysis
• Explain Tailoring Processes
• Describe Qualification, Verification, and Validation Processes
• Explain Risk and Opportunity Management
• Baseline Control
• Technical Planning
• Technical Effort Assessment

Outline

Systems Engineering (SE) Overview

• Origin and evolution of systems engineering
• ANSI/EIA-632 Standards
• ISO 15288
• Mapping the systems engineering process onto system life cycles
• Systems engineering process
• Systems engineering technical management
• Risk management
• Organizational practices
• Requirements definition process
• Functional analysis/allocation
• System architecture synthesis
• Systems engineering analyses
• Integration, verification, and validation
• Human systems engineering
• Methods for functional analysis and allocation with key supporting Methodologies
• Decision analysis technique for risk management

Overview of INCOSE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING HANDBOOK, version 3.2.2

• Technical Processes
• Project Processes
• Enterprise and Agreement Processes
• Enabling Systems Engineering Process Activities
• Systems Engineering Support Activities
• Specialty Engineering Activities
• Tailoring Overview

Technical Processes

• Stakeholder Requirements Definition Process
• Requirements Analysis Process
• Architectural Design Process
• Implementation Process
• Integration Process
• Verification Process
• Transition Process
• Validation Process
• Operation Process
• Maintenance Process
• Disposal Process

Introduction to Systems Engineering Management

• Systems Engineering Process Overview
• Requirements Analysis
• Functional Analysis and Allocation
• Design Synthesis
• Verification
• Systems Engineering Process Outputs
• System Analysis and Control
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Configuration Management
• Technical Reviews and Audits
• Trade Studies
• Modeling and Simulation
• Metrics
• Risk Management
• Systems Engineering Planning
• Systems engineering determines what SHOULD BE
• What Systems Engineering Contributes
• Relation to Project Management
• Systems Engineering Discovery

Primer on Systems Engineering Activities

• State the Problem
• Investigate Alternatives
• Model the Systems
• Integrate
• Launch the System
• Assess Performance
• Re-evaluate
• Variations

Important Concepts of Systems Engineering

• Pragmatic Principles
• Know the Problem, the Customer, and the Consumer
• Use Effectiveness Criteria Based on Needs to Make System Decisions
• Establish and Manage Requirements
• Identify and Assess Alternatives so as to Converge on a Solution
• Verify and Validate Requirements and Solution Performance
• Maintain the Integrity of the System
• Use an Articulated and Documented Process
• Manage against a Plan

Systems Engineering Processes

• Highway Design Life Cycle Process Model
• Vee Model of Systems Engineering Design and Integration
• Decomposition and Definition
• Integration and Verification
• Tufts’ Systems Engineering Process Model
• Plowman’s Model of the Systems Engineering Process
• Traditional System Development Life Cycle Model of the U.S. DoD and NASA
• Traditional Life Cycle Model Detailed

  Competency Development of SE Practitioners

• The SE Practitioner
• Essential Practices
• SE Competencies
• SE Competency Levels
• SE Competency Development

SE Process Capability Assessment

• SE Process Improvement
• Models
• Levels of Capability/Maturity
• Measurement of Capability/Maturity
• Continuous Format
• Staged Format
• Sources of Information on Capability
• The Frameworks Quagmire
• Notions of Process Capability Assessment

LTE-Advanced training provides a technical overview of LTE-Advanced including motivation, major new key features such as as carrier aggregation, enhanced advanced antenna techniques for the DL/ UL, relay repeaters, and coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission and reception, requirements, network architecture, security, coverage, performance, required enhancements in LTE and migration strategies for LTE-Advanced deployment.

LTE–Advanced provides higher bitrates in a cost efficient way and, at the same time, completely fulfill the requirements set by ITU for IMT Advanced, also referred to as 4G.

4G LTE or LTE-Advanced was specified initially in Release 10 of the 3GPP standard in 2010.

LTE-Advanced supports wider frequency bandwidths (40MHz or more). Carrier aggregation was introduced in Release 10 to allow combining multiple pipelines together to create a larger single pipeline (provide backward compatibility with LTE ). This is very similar to 802.11n and 802.11ac/ad or concept of channel bonding for wireline broadband networks.

LTE-Advanced LTE Training course provides a technical overview of LTE-Advanced, describing the features such . In summary, this course provides a technical overview of R10 and beyond.

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What is LTE-Advanced?

4G LTE-Advanced refers to the evolved version of LTE that is developed by 3GPP to meet or exceed the requirements of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for a true fourth generation radio-communication standard known as IMT-Advanced.

LTE-Advanced is  a further evolution of LTE, an OFDMA-based technology, specified in Release 8 and 9, which is supported by a tremendous ecosystem of manufacturers and operators worldwide, and has already proven itself to be the global next generation technology.

In November 2010, the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) ratified LTE-Advanced as IMT-Advanced.

Higher capacity is the main focus In LTE-Advanced:

• Increased peak data rate, DL 3 Gbps, UL 1.5 Gbps
• Higher spectral efficiency, from a maximum of 16bps/Hz in R8 to 30 bps/Hz in R10
• Increased number of simultaneously active subscribers
• Improved performance at cell edges, e.g. for DL 2×2 MIMO at least 2.40 bps/Hz/cell.

The main new functionalities introduced in LTE-Advanced are Carrier Aggregation (CA), enhanced use of multi-antenna techniques and support for Relay Nodes (RN).

• Wider bandwidth support for up to 100 MHz via aggregation of 20 MHz blocks (Carrier Aggregation)
• Uplink MIMO (two transmit antennas in the device)
• Higher order downlink MIMO of up to 8 by 8 in Release 10
• Coordinated Multipoint Transmission (CoMP) with two proposed approaches: coordinated scheduling and/or beamforming, and joint processing/transmission in Release 11
• Heterogeneous network (Het-net) support including enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC)
• Relay

Who Should Attend

Engineers, network planners, network designers, product managers, project managers, program managers, testers, R&D, UE manufacturers, tool vendors, operators, semiconductor professionals and anyone else who need to understand LTE-Advanced or  4G LTE landscape.

Objectives

Upon completion of the LTE-Advanced Training Course, the attendees will be able to

• Describe concepts behind ITU for IMT Advanced, also referred to as true 4G
• List and describe major key features in LTE-Advanced
• List LTE-Advanced network architecture and components
• Describe LTE-Advanced OTA interface and services
• List the requirements, performance, testing and security targets for LTE-Advanced
• Identify enhancement requirements for LTE systems to support LTE-Advanced features
• Explore migration strategies for LTE-Advanced implementation and deployment
• List the performance targets for IMT-Advanced and LTE-Advanced
• Summarize architectural enhancements relative to Release 8
• Describe the key features of Release 10 LTE-Advanced
• Explain the key features of LTE-Advanced beyond Release 10
• Identify the enhancements required in an LTE network to migrate to LTE-Advanced
• Give examples of deployment scenarios for LTE-Advanced including heterogeneous networks (HetNets)

Outline

Overview of LTE-Advanced

• What is LTE-Advanced?
• Backward compatibility with LTE
• LTE-Advanced features
• IMT-Advanced and LTE-Advanced
• Evolution from Release LTE 8/9 to Release 10/11/12 LTE-Advanced (4G LTE)
• Spectrum Allocation
• Carrier Aggregation
• Overview of LTE-Advanced services and features
• Over-the-air provisioning (OTA) in LTE-Advanced
• Simplified View of an OTA Provisioning Architecture

LTE-Advanced Network Architecture

• LTE Advanced Features and Performance (R10, R11 and beyond)
• Release 10/11 Architecture
• LTE Advanced Relays
• Enhanced HeNB in Release 10 and beyond
• Self-Organizing Networks (SON) in Release 9/10/11/12

LTE-Advanced Enhancements

• Release 10 Air Interface Enhancements
• Carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced
• Scheduling for Component Carriers
• Enhanced multiple antenna techniques for DL and UL
• Coordinated and Distributed MIMO
• SON enhancements
• LTE-Advanced Release 11 and Beyond
• Coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission and reception
• Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and eICIC
• Interference cancellation
• Overall System Latency Enhancements

Self-Organizing Networks and Heterogeneous Networks in LTE-Advanced

• SON Architectures SON Framework and Management Model and Interfaces
• Self-configuration (S1/X2)
• Self-Optimization (ANR)
• Mobility Load Balancing
• Mobility Robustness Optimization
• HeNB Architecture
• HeNB Gateway Functionality
• HeNB Access Control
• Closed Subscriber Group management
• HeNB Identification
• LTE-Advanced Coverage Enhancement using  Relay Nodes
• Range Expansion
• PDCCH Control Channel Robustness
• Enhanced Inter-cell Interference Coordination (eICIC)
• Almost Blank Subframes and CSI Measurement Restrictions
• Enhanced PDCCH Control Channel to support Beam Forming

Concepts behind Carrier Aggregation and Enhanced MIMO

• What is  Carrier Aggregation (CA)?
• Uplink Multiple Timing Advance for Carrier Aggregation Rel.11
• Uplink Carrier Aggregation and Multi-Cluster Transmission
• Simultaneous Uplink Control Channel Transmission
• Enhanced Downlink Spatial Multiplexing with 8×8 SU-MIMO
• Enhanced Downlink Multi-User MIMO and Beamforming
• Dedicated Reference Symbol Structure for LTE-A MIMO
• Uplink Multi Antenna Transmission
• Coordinated multipoint transmission and reception (CoMP)
• Cooperative Base Stations and Remote Radio Heads
• CoMP modes: joint processing, coordinates beam forming & scheduling
• CoMP Resource Management and Signaling Procedures

LTE Advanced Operational Procedures

• Network Acquisition and Attach in LTE-Advanced
• Power-up system acquisition
• Random access
• Attach
• Cell reselection and handover
• Idle to connected transition
• Dormant to active transition
• Initial Attach and EPS Bearer Activation
• Mobility in LTE Advanced
• Cell Reselection and Handover
• DTX/DRX in LTE Advanced
• Handover to WiFi for offloading IP traffic

Aerospace systems engineering training covers the fundamentals of systems engineering and their applications in aerospace systems, emphasizing on commercial and military systems We will provide you with a practical knowledge of all components, technical and managerial, included in systems engineering as used in aerospace systems of variable complexity. This hands-on training will focus on the challenging parts in systems development including requirements definition, integration, distribution of requirements, risk management, verification and validation. We also will discuss the techniques and methods used on commercial systems, DoD, NATO and NASA programs.

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Learn About:

• Systems engineering practices
• Terms and methods
• System life cycles used by INCOSE, DoD and NASA
• Requirements generation
• Trade studies
• Architectural practices
• Functional allocation
• Verification/validation methods
• Requirements Determination
• Risk management
• Evaluating specialty engineering contributions
• Importance of integrated product and process teams

Aerospace systems engineering training is delivered in the form of hands-on training that includes labs, group activities, real-world case-studies, and hands-on workshops.

Audience

Aerospace systems engineering training is a 3-day course designed for:

• Systems engineers
• Aerospace engineers
• Space program managers
• Military avionic program managers
• Space, military, and commercial product managers

Training Objectives

Upon the completion of Aerospace systems engineering training, the attendees are able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of systems engineering
• Describe avionic and aircraft systems
• Define aerospace systems engineering processes
• Describe the aerospace-associated programs life-cycle process
• Identify aerospace systems components
• Identify and provide systems requirements and management
• Design the aerospace system
• Integrate their aerospace specialty into systems engineering
• Model aerospace system architecture
• Apply verification and validation techniques
• Apply the models and methods fit aerospace systems
• Manage technical data
• Manage and mitigate technical risks
• Conducting crosscutting techniques
• Manage and support required logistics
• Understand data acquisition and control systems

Course Outline

Overview of Aerospace Systems Engineering

• Systems engineering
• Systems engineering components
• System of systems engineering
• Systems engineering objectives
• Systems engineering discipline
• Aerospace systems
• NASA space systems
• DoD System of Systems (SoS)

System Lifecycle Process

• Researching
• The V diagram
• The project lifecycle process flow
• Preliminary analysis
• Definition
• Development
• Operations and maintenance
• The budget cycle

Aerospace Systems Engineering Management Concerns

• Coordinating balanced goals, work products, and organizations
• The aerospace Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)
• The aerospace SEMP impact
• The aerospace SEMP content
• The aerospace SEMP development
• The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) vs. Product Breakdown Structure (PWBS)
• WBS and PBS roles
• WBS and PBS development tools
• Common mistakes of WBS and PBS
• Scheduling and scheduling impact
• System schedule info and visual styles
• Setting up a system schedule
• Reporting methods
• Resource leveling
• Budgeting and resource management
• Risk management
• Various types of risks
• Risk determination methods
• Risk assessment methods
• Risk reduction methods
• Configuration Management
• Baseline development
• Configuration management strategies
• Managing information
• Reviews, audits, and control
• Objectives
• Overall rules
• Main control accesses
• Temporary review
• Reporting the state and evaluation
• Cost and schedule control measurement indices
• Engineering performance evaluation
• Aerospace systems engineering process metrics

Systems Assessment and Modeling Concerns in Aerospace

• The trade study development
• Regulating the trade study
• Models and tools
• Selecting the selection rule
• Defining and modeling the budget
• Life-Cycle expenses and other expenses evaluation
• Monitoring life-cycle costs
• Cost approximation
• Defining and modeling the effectiveness
• Measuring the system effectiveness methods
• NASA system effectiveness evaluation
• Accessibility and logistics supportability modeling
• Probabilistic management of cost and effectiveness
• Origins of uncertainty in models
• Modeling methods for managing uncertainty

Integrating Aerospace Engineering Into the Systems Engineering Process

• Aerospace engineering role
• Reliability
• Role of the reliability
• Building consistent space-based systems
• Reliability assessment tools and methods
• Quality assurance
• Role of the quality assurance engineer
• Quality assurance tools and methods
• Maintainability
• Responsibility of the maintainability engineer
• The system maintenance notion and maintenance plan
• Designing maintainable space-based systems
• Maintainability evaluation tools and methods
• The avionic Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)
• ILS components
• Planning for ILS
• ILS tools and methods
• Continuous attainment and life-cycle support
• Verification
• Verification process
• Verification planning
• Qualification verification
• Acceptance verification
• Deployment verification
• Functional and disposal verification
• Production
• Production engineer responsibilities
• Tools and methods
• Publicly accepted
• Environmental impacts
• Nuclear safety launch authorization
• Planetary protection

Functional Assessment Methods

• Functional methods
• N² diagrams
• Timeline analysis

Functional Analysis

• Boeing B-777: fly-by-wire flight control systems
• Electrical flight control systems
• Navigation and tracking Systems
• Flight management systems
• Synthetic vision
• Communication systems
• Satellite systems
• Sensors systems

TONEX Case Study Sample: International Space Station (ISS)

• Some background
• ISS systems engineering elements
• ISS systems engineering principals
• ISS systems engineering accomplishments
• ISS systems engineering challenges and failures
• ISS systems engineering configuration management
• ISS systems engineering quality assurance and maintenance

Requirements Writing Training, and Specifications Writing Training course addresses the techniques used to write, validate and verify requirements and convert them to technical design specifications. It gives attendees the basic tools necessary to write effective system design specifications.

Requirements are the foundation for building systems and software. They determine WHAT the system must do and drive the system development. Requirements are used to determine [verify] if the project team built the system correctly. The requirements development process identifies the activities needed to produce a set of complete and verifiable requirements.

Learn how to:

• Write well-formed, validated requirements and specifications
• Analyze, Verify and Validate requirements into a user requirements document
• Create Project Plan/SEMP with  various plans, such as the review plans, configuration management plans, and risk plans. [Control the requirements development].
• Establish Configuration management [CM] the process to control changes to the requirements and manage the baseline documentation.
• Plan the Risk management to monitor, control, and mitigate high risk requirements.
• Manage Technical reviews to identify defects, conflicts, missing, or unnecessary requirements.
• Manage Stakeholder involvement which is  essential for validating the requirements. Are these the correct requirements?
• Establish Elicitation techniques to enable the discovery and understanding of the needed requirements.
• Manage Traceability of requirements to user needs & requirements, support documentation, and constraining policies [e.g., safety requirements].

Requirements define the functions, performance, and environment of the system under development to a level that can be built:Does the system do WHAT it is supposed to do? – These are Functional requirements.How well does the system do its functions? – These are Performance requirements.

TONEX Requirements Writing Training provides the foundation to produce requirements for the system and sub-systems with set of activities . The systems engineering standard [EIA 632] defines “requirement” as “something that governs what, how well, and under what conditions a product will achieve a given purpose.”

This course gives PEs 13 PDH (Professional Development Hours) approved by PIE.

Who Should Attend

SMEs, project stakeholders, users, Project and program managers, directors, project sponsors and anyone else involved in planning and writing specifications requirements for projects.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, attendees will:

• Describe the way the system is intended to operate from the user’s perspective
• Describe Concept of Operations (ConOps) process where user needs, expectations, goals, and objectives are described
• Understand how feasibility Study can produce the conceptual high-level design and requirements which can be used as a starting point for the project.
• Demonstrate the ability to capture and validate requirements throughout the requirements analysis process.
• Learn how to conduct technical reviews, manage stakeholder involvement, and elicit requirements
• Understand traceability of requirements to user needs
• Understand the relationships among all stages of the system life cycle.
• Describe different levels of requirements
• Learn how to develop requirements, write and document requirements, check completeness of requirements, analyze, refine, and decompose requirements, validate requirements and manage requirements
• Describe communications techniques to elicit requirements
• Classify requirements as functional or design
• Demonstrate the ability to write functionally oriented and design oriented specifications
• Understand how to convert requirements into valid design specifications
• Learn how to separate System and Sub-system Requirements
• Learn how to create a Verification Plan to verify each system requirement
• Effectively produce design specification
• Effectively perform Verification (Functional, Non-Functional, and Interface reqs.) and Validation (ConOps)

Outline

BASICS OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

• Definition of Common Terms
• System Definition and Design
• Design Methodologies
• Master Plan Scope
• Concept of Operations (ConOps)
• Preliminary Engineering
• Final Engineering
• RFP vs. Consultant Design vs. Design-Build

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS

• Introduction to Requirements
• The Quality of Requirements
• Description of Requirements Writing (within the larger context of system development)
• Overview of Requirements Development

Communication Techniques for Eliciting Requirements

• Stakeholder involvement
• Defining valid and meaningful needs
• Technical reviews
• Stakeholder feedback on the needs being collected
• Prioritization of the needs
• ConOps to System Requirements (generic)

REQUIREMENTS

• Purpose of Requirements
• Levels of Requirements
• Understanding the different levels of requirements
• Performance requirements
• Conditions [e.g. environmental, reliability, and availability]
• Environmental and Non-Functional requirements
• System
• Sub system
• Component / task

Types of Requirements

• Eight basic types
• Differences between requirements for hardware, software, services
• Functional
• Non functional
• Performance, etc.
• Non-Requirements

STRUCTURE OF A WELL FORMED REQUIREMENT

• Definition
• Capabilities
• Conditions
• Constraints
• Operational Policies & Constraints
• Technical and Policy Constraints
• Properties
• Interface
• Human
• Hardware
• Software
• Communications
• Functional analysis – needs analysis, operational analysis, use cases
• Design requirements analysis
• States & Modes analysis
• Workshop – States and modes analysis
• Requirements parsing
• Writing requirements vs. defining a system proposed is critical

SPECIFICATIONS VS. REQUIREMENTS

• Development of requirements
• Description of the current environment
• Stakeholders
• Feedback to Stakeholders
• Facilitation skills and techniques
• Transforming Requirements into Requirements Specifications
• How requirements specifications relate to requirements
• Requirements Flowdown in Specifications
• Specification Types and Formats
• Types of requirements specification
• Specification Writing
• Review of requirements quality
• Requirement structural template

SYSTEM TESTS (Verification and vALIDATION)

• Test Plans
• Test Procedures
• User Acceptance Testing
• Requirements Verification Matrix
• Traceability to user requirements (Validation against ConOps)
• Traceability to system requirements (Verification against System Specs.)
• Verification (Functional, Non-Functional, and Interface reqs.)
• Validation (ConOps)
• System Integration
• Standards and Policies

WORKSHOPS/EXERCISE

• Workshop 1
• Examples of good and poor requirements (group project)
• Requirements constructs
• Group presentations and discussions
• Workshop 2- classifying requirements as functional or design
• Workshop 3 – writing a functionally oriented specification vs. a design oriented specification
• Analysis of Conops document
• Analysis of Test plans/procedures

What is DFMEA?

DFMEA, or Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, is typically used in the early stage of the product lifecycle and development as a troubleshooting and assurance process and tool.

What is FMEA?

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is defined as a regular technique used to inhibit failure. Such action is conducted through the exploration of potential failure modes and the reasons can cause such failure. FMEA actions occur within a team activity by tackling high severity, high occurrence, and high detection rankings that is determined by the analysis. Only through the preventive process of FMEA we can assure the product performance is satisfactory and the chance of the product failure is reduced. The Design FMEA training course will help you explore these steps in detail and learn how to put them in action to prevent the system failure.

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FMEA techniques are considered as a quality improvement tool. One of the reasons why FMEA has gained interests in recent years is because of automotive industry and implementing ISO/TS 16949. However, other industries such as aerospace, pharmaceutical, and electronics can benefit from such practice as a risk analysis tool and to increase the quality of their products. One of the beauties of this technique is its simplicity. Quality improvement tools are often made of complicated statistical analysis. Such simple yet sufficient and effective quality technique can save costs for the organization.

Learn about:

• What Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) is
• How Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) is related to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
• Benefits of Design FMEA
• How to uncover opportunities to prevent failure proactively prior to the failures
• How to collect data and information as part of DFMEA Pre-Work
• How to use DFMEA to investigate and treat risk as actual failure including high severity Failure Modes
• Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) process and tools
• Learn about Design FMEA input and output including RPN, severity, occurrence, and detection rankings
• Learn about Requirements, Potential Failure Modes, Effects of Failure and Severity Ranking, Causes, Prevention Controls, Occurrence and Class Column, Detection Controls, calculating the Risk Priority Number (RPN) and more
• Select an Effective DFMEA Cross Functional Teams (CFTs) in your organization
• Analyze your process and plan Cross Functional Teams (CFTs) activities and control
• Plan Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R)
• Map design reviews to FMEA Outputs
• Use problem solving activities such as 8D to DFMEA input and output
• Use Design of Experiments (DOE) in conjunction with DFMEA
• Use other tools such as Why-Why, Fishbone Diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), 8D, DOE to enhance your Design FMEA activities

Learn how to map Design FMEA Detection to the input into the Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R)

TONEX DFMEA Training Methodology

Design FMEA training includes many in-class activities including hands on exercises, case studies and workshops. During the Design FMEA workshops, students bring in their own design work and issues and through our coaching, develop their own Design FMEA.

The DFMEA training course will also address the relationship between FMEA process and FTA, DVP&R, and control plans. This course not only is conducted via lecture but also involves trainees in in-class activities. Students will experience designing and developing a mocking FMEA and risk analysis in the class.

Audience

The DFMEA training is a 2-day course designed for:

• Engineers, scientists, and managers involved with manufacturing
• Production and manufacturing team
• Product design personnel
• Reliability, testing, and quality team members
• R&D personnel
• Product and process assurance people
• Assembly personnel

Objectives

Upon completion of this seminar, the attendees are able to:

• Explain the concept and the purpose of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Discuss the benefits, requirements, and goals of FMEA
• Decide when to use Design FMEA and when Process-FMEA
• Discuss the steps and process of the FMEA
• Gather up an FMEA team
• Define the Design FMEA scope
• Conduct all the steps of Design FMEA
• Conduct the ranking scales for Severity, Occurrence, and Detection
• Choose the appropriate technology methods to use as supplement to their DFMEA action plan
• Make the Design FMEA into an active document
• Develop a Control plan based on Design FMEA
• Determine corrective actions in order to develop a more correct FMEA

Outline

Overview of FMEA and DFMEA/Design FMEA

• Introduction to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Definition of FMEA
• How FMEA works
• Why and where using FMEA
• System/Subsystem/component Design FMEA
• Manufacturing and Assembly Process FMEA
• Machinery and Equipment FMEA (Logistics Support)

Purpose of an FMEA

• Identifying potential risks
• Prioritizing the risks
• Developing an action plan to reduce the risks

Design-FMEA vs. Process-FMEA

• What is DFMEA?
• What is PFMEA?
• Difference between DFMEA and PFMEA?
• When to use which?
• Special features (critical and significant)
• Cooperation on special features
• Characteristics as inputs to PFMEA

Principles of DFMEA/Design-FMEA 

• What Is A Design FMEA?
• Identifying potential or known failure modes
• Corrective and preventive actions
• Disciplined analysis of the product/system design
• Design-based failure modes
• Design FMEA steps and flow
• Examples
• DFMEA Development Methodology
•  Scope
• Clarify your scope
• How to use the DFMEA Scope Worksheet
•  Procedure
• Step-by-step directions of a Design FMEA
• How to use the FMEA Analysis Worksheet
• How to customize the Severity, Occurrence, and Detection Ranking Scales
• Failure Mode Avoidance FMA /FPA Failure Prevention Analysis
• Team structure and rules for efficiency – cross functional teams
• Control Plan
• Some tips on DFMEA

Design FMEA Relations to Process-FMEA

• Scope
  • Clarify your scope
  • How to use the PFMEA Scope Worksheet
• Procedure
  • Step-by-step directions of a PFMEA
  • How to use the FMEA Analysis Worksheet
  • How to customize the Severity, Occurrence, and Detection Ranking Scales
• Control Plan
• Some tips on PFMEA

Design FMEA Training Hands-on and In-Class Activities

• 3 Labs
• 2 Workshops
• 1 Group Activity

Sample  Design FMEA Activity Workshop

• How to complete the Design FMEA Template (TONEX’s DFMEA Template)
• Tools to extract product functions
• Disusing and analyzing potential Failure Modes
• Brainstorming and identifying potential Failure Effects
• Disusing and determining the Severity of the Effect
• Analyzing and identifying Potential Cause(s) of the Failure Mode
• Determining the Probability of Occurrence of the Failure Mode
• Identifying Design Verifications techniques for the Causes
• Determining the Probability of Non-Detection of the Failure Mode
• Prioritizing risks based on Risk Priority Number (RPN)
• Corrective and Preventive Actions
• Techniques to prioritizing Actions Based on the RPN

The Internet of Things Training, IoT Training by TONEX

The Internet of Things Training Course covers What the IoT is about, technology trends, deployments and convergence. Learn how to work with Building Connected Devices.

The Internet of Things Training Course attendees will learn about the dynamics of the IoT markets, technology, trends, planning, design and the convergence of platforms and services, with a special focus on the product design, architecture and implementation.

This is a fundamental IoT course covering the technologies behind the Internet of Things and connected devices.

Course Content

What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?

• Concepts and Definitions of The Internet of Things (IoT)
• History  of IoT
• Applications
• IoT standards
• Requirements
• Functionalists and structure
• IoT enabling technologies
• IoT Architecture
• Major component of IoT
• Hardware, sensors, Systems-on-a-Chip, firmware, device drivers, application software, connectivity, cloud, and security
• Role of wired and wireless communication
• IoT communication and networking protocols
• IoT services and applications
• Security
• Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things
• Semantic Web 3.0 Standard for M2M and IoT
• IoT Platforms
• Challenges of adapting the concepts

Overview of IoT  connectivity methods and technologies

• wireless 101
• RF 101
• ZigBee
• RFID
• Bluetooth LE or Bluetooth Smart Technology
• IEEE 802.15.4, IEEE 802.15.4e, 802.11ah
• Relay Access Point (AP)
• Grouping of stations
• Target Wake Time (TWT)
• Speed Frame Exchange
• Sectorization
• GSM, CDMA, GPRS,3G, LTE, small cells, SATCOM
• Sensors and sensor networks
• Serial communication
• Power consumption and optimization
• MIPI, M-PHY, UniPro, SPMI, BIF,  SuperSpeed USB Inter-Chip (SSIC), Mobile PCIe (M-PCIe) and SPI
• Wired connectivity
• IPv4/IPv6
• Ethernet/GigE
• Real-time systems  and embedded software
• Cloud computing and storage
• Augmented Reality

Evaluation of of The Internet of Things

• Platforms
• Mobile integration
• Deployment
• Data Visualization
• Convergence with Social Networks
• Value chain and Business models
• User centric cloud based services
• Analytical Hierarchy Process for technology selection
• End-to-end security
• Integration with IT systems
• Cost/benefit constraints
• End-to-end compatibility
• Application Architecture
• Lifecycle solution management
• Real-time response and delay

IEEE SA IoT: It is predicted that 50 to 100 billion things will be electronically connected by the year 2020. This Internet of Things (IoT) will fuel technology innovation by creating the means for machines to communicate many different types of information with one another. With all objects in the world connected, lives will be transformed. But the success of IoT depends strongly on standardization, which provides interoperability, compatibility, reliability, and effective operations on a global scale.

Recognizing the value of IoT to industry and the benefits this technology innovation brings to the public, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) has a number of standards, projects and events that are directly related to creating the environment needed for a vibrant IoT.

MIL-1553 Training Course Description

Why choose TONEX for your MIL-1553 (MIL-STD-1553) Training?

MIL-1553 training course by TONEX covers MIL-STD-1553 protocol architecture, functional characteristics, technical components, design, operations, products, testing and trends.

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MIL-STD-1553, MIL-STD-1553, or AS15531 is a military standard, Digital Time Division Command/Response Multiplex Data Bus, published by DoD that defines the mechanical, electrical and functional characteristics of a serial data bus. It features a dual redundant balanced line physical layer, a (differential) network interface, time division multiplexing, half-duplex command/response protocol and up to 31 remote terminals (devices).

MIL-STD-1773 is a version of MIL-STD-1553 using optical cabling.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the attendees are be able to:

• Understand MIL-STD-1553 protocol, architecture and functional characteristics
• Explain the architecture of MIL-STD-1553
• Sketch the logical and physical architecture of MIL-STD-1553
• Describe MIL-STD-1553 mechanical, electrical and functional characteristics
• Explain technical components, design, operations and, testing aspects of MIL-STD-1553
• Explore
• Describe the key cyber security concepts in MIl-STD-1553
• List the requirements and capabilities of MIL-STD-1553 security
• Explore vulnerabilities and weaknesses of MIL-STD-1553 applied to aircrafts and weapons

Audience

Managers, applications developers, integrators, sales and marketing professionals involved in managing, marketing, selling, developing, testing or integrating MIL-STD-1553 applications and systems.

Course Content

Introduction to MIL-STD-1553

• MIL-STD-1553A
• MIL-STD-1553B
• Notice 1 and Notice 2
• MIL-STD-1553 General Requirements
• MIL-STD-1553 Standards updated by SAE.org

MIL-STD-1553 Data bus Overview

• Multiplexing in MIL-STD-1553
• MIL-STD-1553 Hardware Components
• Terminal Operation
  • Data Bus Controller (BC)
  • Remote Terminal (RT)
  • Data Bus Monitor (BM)

MIL-STD-1553 Hardware Platforms

• Hardware Characteristics
  • Data Bus Cable
  • Data Bus Coupling
  • Terminal I/O Characteristics
  • Redundant Data Bus Requirements

MIL-STD-1553 Protocol

Command word, mode codes, mode command formats, data word, status word, message error bit.

• Message Formats
• Command Word
• Data Word
• Mode Codes
• Status Word
• Errors

Connecting the Bus

• Terminal Electrical Characteristics
  • MIL-STD-1553 Cabling
  • MIL-STD-1553 Coupling
  • Direct Coupling
  • Transformer Coupling
• MIL-STD- System Design
• Data Bus Topology and Redundancy
• Data Bus Control and Partitioning
• Bus Loading

MIL-STD-1553 System and Software Design

• MIL-STD-1553 Systems Engineering Principals
• MIL-STD-1553 Requirement Analysis
• System and Software Design
• Data Bus Topology and Control
• Robustness, Partitioning & Redundancy
• Bus Loading and Bus Controller Software
• Synchronous and Timing

MIL-STD-1553 Testing Procedures

• Testing and Verification
• Test and Operating Requirements
• Developmental Testing
• Design Verification
• Production Testing
• Systems Integration Testing
• Field & Operational Testing
• Integration Issues

MIL-STD-1553 Databus Specification Interpretation

• MIL-STD-1553 Products and Vendors
• MIL-STD-1553 Interface Hardware and Software
• Advanced MIL-STD-1553 UHF/VHF Radio
• High-Speed MIL-STD-1760 for the aircraft/weapon interface
• MIL-STD-1760C
• MIL-STD-1394b, a military version of Firewire
• Enhanced Performance MIL-STD-1553

Introduction to MIL-STD-1773

• Media Components and Design
• Testing
• Installation and Maintenance
• Enhancements and Optimization

MIL-STD-1553 Security

• MIL-STD-1553 Network and System Security
• Security Definitions
• Equipment originating or terminating classified plain text language
• Wirelines, equipment, and the interconnecting lines
• wirelines, components, equipment, and systems
• Encrypted or unclassified signals
• lectrical circuits components, equipment, systems
• Classified plain language data in electrical form
• nvestigations and studies of compromising emanations
• TEMPEST
• System Security Policy
• MIL-STD-1553 design (system, hardware, and software)
• Operational, maintenance, and logistic
• Security policy of the aircraft, ship, or system

Labs, Project and Interactive Sessions

Integrated Logistics Support Training

Integrated Logistics Support Training covers many aspects of unified and iterative approach to the management and technical activities for operational and materiel requirements and design specifications for logistics support.  Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is the management and technical process to integrate needs for logistic  support  into the design of a system or equipment  throughout its life cycle.

Learn about the process by which all elements of logistic support are planned, acquired, tested, and provided in a timely and cost-effective manner. Learn how integrated logistics support define the support requirements related to system design and development and acquiring the required support.

Learn about Integrated Logistic Support services including:

• Maintenance Planning
• Manpower and Personnel
• Early Consideration of Manpower Requirements
• Technical Data
• Supply Support
• Training and Training Support
• Facilities
• System Configuration Identification & Validation
• Configuration Item / Technical Information (CI-TI) Database Development
• System Failure Analysis
• Preventative Maintenance / Supportability Analysis
• Troubleshooting and Repair
• Business Process and Workflow Automation
• Software/Database Development

Course Content:

Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Framework

• Integrated product support
• Integrated product support elements
• Integrated product support process
• Integrated product support process in the acquisition strategy
• Integrated Product Support development
• Pre-materiel acquisition
• Materiel Solutions and Analysis Phase
• Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction Phase
• Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase
• Production and Deployment Phase
• Operations and Support Phase

Product Support Management

• Strategic Approach and Risk Management,
• Performance based product support strategies
• Legacy materiel
• Supportability risk management
• Organization
• Product support manager
• Product support integrator
• Product support provider
• Product support management integrated product team
• Army integrated product support executive committee
• Integrated Product Support Management of Joint Programs
• Joint programs and Joint logistics
• Lead Service product support managers
• Implementing Performance Based Product Support Strategies,
• Metrics
• Performance-based arrangements
• Section V
• Contract Performance-based Arrangements,
• Requirements
• Public-private partnerships
• Contractor logistics support (nonpublic-private partnership support)
• Contract management
• Planning
• Reprocurement

Design

• Design interface
• Design for energy efficiency
• Maintenance task design parameters
• Condition-based maintenance plus in the design
• Design for manpower and personnel integration
• Design for standardization and interoperability
• Design for environment, safety, and occupational health
• Design for corrosion resistance
• Supply Management Army-Operations and Support Cost Reduction Program
• Commercial and nondevelopmental items market investigation

The Impact of Maintenance Planning

• Maintenance concepts and requirements for the life of the system
• Levels of repair
• Repair times
• Testability requirements
• Support equipment needs
• Manpower and skills required
• Facilities
• Site activation

Integrated Product Support Analysis and Software Tools

• Requirement
• Product support analysis and logistics product data
• Analysis of product support alternatives
• Life cycle cost analysis
• Reliability centered maintenance analyses, failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis, and fault tree analysis
• Level of repair analysis
• Modeling and simulation
• Core logistics determination of applicability and core logistics analysis
• Core depot assessment
• Depot source of repair analysis
• Provisioning analysis
• Post-fielding support analysis
• Integrated Product Support software tools

Technical Data and Configuration Management

• Technical data
• Configuration management
• Logistics product data
• Provisioning technical documentation
• Equipment publications
• Maintenance allocation chart
• Operator manuals
• Maintenance manuals
• Repair parts and special tools list
• Depot maintenance work requirements and national maintenance work requirements

Integrated Product Support Planning

• Integrated product support planning considerations
• Life Cycle Sustainment Plan
• Life Cycle Sustainment Plan content
• Maintenance support planning
• Logistics footprint
• Provisioning plan
• Depot maintenance partnerships
• Recapitalization program
• Depot Maintenance Support Plan
• Software support planning
• Fielded software support
• Computer Resources Life Cycle Management Plan
• Resource planning
• Operating and support cost
• Affordability
• Cost as an independent variable (cost consciousness)
• Program cost estimate
• Funding appropriations
• Replaced System Sustainment Plan
• System Demilitarization and Disposal Plan
• Materiel fielding planning
• Post-production support planning
• Preservation and storage of tooling for Major Defense Acquisition Programs

Force Development Documentation and Training Systems

• Equipment and Personnel
• Force development documentation
• Line item numbers
• Basis of issue plan feeder data
• Basis of issue plan
• Manpower requirements criteria
• Major item system map
• Training Systems and Devices,
• Pre-acquisition
• Acquisition
• Training system and training device fielding
• Training system and training device support
• Post-production software support
• New equipment training

Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health

• Environmental impact
• Environment, safety, and occupational health considerations
• Hazardous materials

Test and Evaluation

• Supportability test and evaluation
• Product support package
• Logistics demonstration

Integrated Product Support Program Reviews and Reporting

• Milestone Decision Review
• Type Classification
• Materiel Release
• Supportability Assessment
• Independent Logistics Assessment
• Department of the Army Integrated Product Support Reviews
• Sustainment reviews
• Integrated Product Support reporting
• Internal Control Evaluation for the Integrated Product Support Program
• Life Cycle Sustainment Plan mandatory annexes
• Life Cycle Sustainment Plan Development, Coordination, and Approval Process

ONF Certified SDN Associate certification (OCSA) Training

ONF Certified SDN Associate certification (OCSA) training course by TONEX is a preparation for ONF Certified SDN Associate (OCSA-110).

ONF Certified SDN Associate (OCSA) is awarded upon successful completion of the exam arranged by ONE.

TONEX ONF Certified SDN Associate (OCSA) certification exam preparation training course that attests and formally certifies  successful candidates with  vendor-neutral conceptual knowledge of the major domains of networking practices that support the theory and practice of Software Defined Networking (SDN).

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Learn about ONE-Certified SDN Associate certification (OCSA)  Domains:

• Basic SDN Concepts
• OpenFlow Basics
• SDN Architecture and Ecosystem
• SDN Open Source

Who Should Attend ONE-Certified SDN Associate certification (OCSA) training course and Intended Exam Audience

• SDN Sales Engineers
• Business Development Managers
• Product Managers
• Product Marketing
• Manager/Director for a Network/IT Group
• Network Technicians (Entry Level)
• IT Analysts (Entry Level)
• System Administrators (Entry Level)
• Consultant/Professional Services Engineer
• Students and Researchers
• Sales Representatives

Training Agenda

Overview of Networking Concepts

• OSI and TCP/IP models
• Fundamental elements of networking
• Connection-oriented vs. connectionless protocols
• Ethernet networks
• Collision domains and broadcast domains
• Routers vs. switches
• Layer 3/2 addressing
• Layer 2 addresses
• Layer 3 / IP addressing, including subnet masks
• Address resolution
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• Overview of Routing Protocols
• RIP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP
• Optical network fundamentals
• SONET/SDH, DWDM and OTN
• IP Network Services
• DHCP, DNS, ARP, NAT, ICMP
• IPv4 and IPv6 fundamentals
• Packet Filtering

Fundamental characteristics of SDN

• History of SDN
• What is SDN?
• SDN Value Proposition
• Control and forwarding planes
• SDN Use Cases
• Data Center applications and use cases
• Campus Networks applications and use cases
• Service Providers applications and use cases
• Enterprise applications and use cases
• Mobile Networks applications and use cases

Characteristics of an SDN Network

• Plane Separation
• Simplified Forwarding Element
• Centralized Control
• Network Automation
• Virtualization
• Openness
• Interoperability

SDN Devices

• Controllers
• Switches
• Orchestration
• API’s
• Overlay Networking Abstractions

SDN Architecture

• Traditional Network Architectures vs. SDN
• SDN architectural components
• Standards bodies
• Controller design
• API’s and applications.
• SDN Layers
• Northbound and Southbound API’s
• East/West API’s
• SDN Security and Availability
• Packet and Optical Integration methods
• SDN Migration Strategies
• Hybrid Mode Switches

SDN Ecosystem

• Standards Bodies and Industry alliances
• Network Operators and Enterprises
• Network Equipment Manufacturers
• Software vendors
• Academic and Industry research institutions and labs
• Open Source Initiatives

Who is the ONF and what do they do?

• Purpose of Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
• Structure
• Technical Working Groups
• Open Source Software Development
• Activities and Initiatives
• Controller Placement and Redundancy
• SDN Applications (service chaining, virtualized network functions, analytics)

What is OpenFlow® ?

• OpenFlow® Protocol operations
• Packet types and contents
• Communications between controller/switch
• Channel/communication/session establishment
• Message Types
• Basic Operation
• Packet Matching
• OpenFlow® versions
• Proactive vs Reactive Flows
• Statistics and Counters
• Steps in setting up a flow
• Policy Enforcement
• OpenFlow® Management and Configuration Protocol
• OF-Config, OAM, OFDPA, OVSDB
• Flow Table Entry Format
• Flow Timers
• Pipeline Processing
• Match Types
• Match Actions

Open Source SDN

• Identify key open source projects in the SDN Ecosystem.
• OpenFlow® Agents
• Indigo
• Linc
• OVS
• CPqD/ONF Driver (aka “libFluid”)
• OpenFlow® Controllers
• NOX
• POX
• ONOS
• ODL
• Floodlight
• RYU
• Utilities and Tools
• FlowSim
• Mininet
• Of DPA
• OF Test
• Wireshark
• Avior
• Open Source SDN Distributions (OSSDN Atrium, etc.)
• Open vSwitch
• Orchestration Systems
• Open Source Initiatives (OPNFV, OCP, ODCA, Open Config)

What will you learn at the TONEX Capacity Planning Training Course Boot Camp?

Capacity planning training course bootcamp provides the details of capacity planning as a repeatable process for IT infrastructure, cloud computing, and data centers. It’s about understanding service levels and resource usage and aligning capacity requirements with business demands with trending and forecasting.

Software Engineering Training-Crash Course

Software engineering training teaches you the advanced software engineering topics and provides you with the discipline to apply engineering and computer science concepts in the development, maintenance, usability and dependability of the software.

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TONEX as a leader in teaching industry for more than 15 years is now announcing the software engineering training which helps you to recognize the software design software development, software testing, software maintenance and software management.

TONEX has served the industry and academia with high quality conferences, seminars, workshops, and exclusively designed courses in systems engineering area and is pleased to inform professional fellows about the recent comprehensive training on software engineering.

This course covers variety of topics in software engineering area such as: introduction to software engineering, software investigation and analysis, software design, software implementation and management, requirement analysis and engineering, software development process life cycle, and software development processes. Furthermore, you will be introduced to socio-technical systems, software system architecture, dependability and security engineering, software project planning and management, dependability and security assurance, software system configuration management, software system quality management, agile software system engineering, software verification and validation, software construction and distributed software systems.

By taking the software engineering training by TONEX, you will learn about present software engineering concepts as well as principles in parallel with the software development life cycle.

This training will begin with an introduction to software engineering, giving you a definition of the body of knowledge, as well as a discussion of the main methodologies of software engineering. The next step is to introduce the software development life cycle (SDLC) followed by software modeling using unified modeling language (UML), a standardized general purpose languages used to create visual models of object oriented software. Moreover, you will learn about the main phases of SDLC; requirements gathering, requirement analysis, design, coding, and testing.

If you are an IT professional who specialize in software engineering, you will benefit the presentations, examples, case studies, discussions, and individual activities upon the completion of the software engineering training and will prepare yourself for your career.

Learn about artifacts and approaches to develop the software systems, software engineering metrics, distributed, configurable and object oriented software. Moreover, you will learn about alignment of software systems with overall system design, software unique aspects of planning, requirements, architecture analysis, implementation, testing and maintenance, important of software engineering constraints, security and technology trends in software engineering.

Our instructors at TONEX will help you to understand different software engineering and development processes. Furthermore, you will be introduced to the different examination methods and tools in software engineering.

Finally, the software engineering training will introduce a set of labs, workshops and group activities of real world case studies in order to prepare you to tackle all the related software engineering challenges.

Audience

Software engineering training is a 4-day course designed for:

• Software developers want to acquire state of the art knowledge of software engineering
• Software engineers need to know everything about software engineering
• Business analysts having projects in software engineering
• System engineers
• Project managers of software projects
• System safety managers
• Software maintainers
• Software configuration managers
• Software programmers
• Software Managers and lead technical staff
• Any IT professionals need to improve their knowledge of software engineering

Training Objectives

Upon completion of the software engineering training course, the attendees are able to:

• Understand the systems engineering principles applied to design, development and integration of software intensive systems
• Learn about systems engineering, software engineering and software development with practical applications
• Explain the basic structure of designing and implementing software systems from analysis, verifications and validations
• Understand the software engineering life cycle models with their significance and objectives
• Understand how to reduce the software faults and failures to an acceptable margin using rigorous testing and inspection
• Conduct technical software performance measurements and defining deterministic factors in successful software system engineering
• Learn how to make plans for software systems, control the changes and analyze to improve the process
• Learn how to apply practical methods to improve software project performance in design process

Training Outline

Software engineering training course consists of the following lessons, which can be revised and tailored to the client’s need:

Introduction to Software Engineering

• Role of Software Engineer
• Definitions and Concepts
• Information Level in the Organization
• Software Life Cycle
• Categories of Software
• Alternate Software Acquisition Approaches
• Software Engineering Paradigms
• Desirable Features of Computer Software
• Summary and Concluding Remarks
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Software Modeling; Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Software Investigation and Analysis

• Project Selection and Initial System Requirements
• Project Selection
• Problem Definition
• Proposed Solution
• Scope and Objectives of the System
• System Justification
• Feasibility Analysis Report
• Alternate Approach to Feasibility Analysis
• Summary of System Inputs and Outputs
• Initial Project Schedule
• Project Team
• Requirement Specification
• Contents of the Requirement Specification
• Documenting the Requirements
• Requirement Validation
• Proceeding
• Presenting the Requirements Specification
• Information gathering
• Rationale for Information Gathering
• Interviews
• Questionnaires and Surveys
• Observation and Document Review
• Prototyping
• Brainstorming and Mathematical Proof
• Object Identification
• Communicating via diagrams
• Traditional System Flow Charts
• Innovation; Topology Chart
• Data Flow Diagrams
• Object Flow Diagrams
• Contemporary Diagramming Techniques
• Program Flow Chart
• decision models for system logic
• Structured Language
• Decision Tables
• Decision Trees
• Decision Techniques to Use
• Decision Techniques versus Flowcharts
• System Rules
• Project management aids
• PERT and CPM
• The Gantt Chart
• Project Management Software

Software Design

• Software Design Process
• Design Strategies
• Architectural Design
• Interface Design
• Software Design and Development Standards
• The Design Specification
• Database Design
• Approaches to Database Design
• Overview of File Organization
• User Interface Design
• Types of User Interfaces
• Steps in User Interface Design
• Output Design
• Output Methods versus Content and Technology
• Input Design
• Operation Design
• Categorization of Operations
• Essentials of Operation Design
• Informal Operation Requirements
• Formal Specifications

Software Implementation and Management

• Software Implementation Issues
• Software Operating Environment
• Installation of the System
• Code Conversion
• Change Over
• Software Marketing
• Standards and Quality Assurance
• Management of Targets and Financial Resources
• Leadership and Motivation
• Software Management
• Management Responsibilities
• Management Styles
• Software Maintenance
• Legacy Systems
• Software Integration
• Software Re-engineering
• Developing the Job Description
• Maintaining the Desired Environment
• Preserving Accountability
• Grooming and Succession Planning
• Software Economics
• Software Cost
• Software Value
• Assessing Software Productivity
• Estimation Techniques for Engineering Cost
• Organizing Effective Management
• Functional Organization
  Parallel Organization
• Hybrid Organization
• Organization of Software Engineering Firms

Requirements Analysis and Engineering

• Introduction to Requirements Analysis
• Systems Engineering Process Inputs
• Types of Requirements
• Requirements in Waterfall Model
• Software Requirement Specification (SRS)
• Elicitation Techniques
• Functional Requirements
• Non-Functional Requirements
• Domain Requirements
• Structured Analysis
• Entity-Relationship Approach
• Object Oriented Analysis
• Class and Object Identification
• The Dynamic Model
• Requirements Specifications
• Requirements Documentations
• Requirements Verification and Negotiation
• Requirements Validation

Software Development Process Life Cycle

• Waterfall Development
• Prototyping
• Incremental Development
• Iterative and Incremental Development
• Spiral Development
• Rapid Application Development
• Agile Development
• Lightweight Methodologies
• Code and Fix
• Process Meta-Models
• Formal Methods

Software System Development Processes

• Unified Software Development Process (USDP)
• Incremental Process
• Iterative Process
• Architecture Centric
• Use-Case Driven and Risk Confronting
• USDP Life Cycle
• Process Workflows
• Supporting workflows
• Inception Phase
• Elaboration Phase
• Construction Phase
• Transition Phase
• Lifecycle Objectives
• Lifecycle Architecture
• Unified Modeling Language

Socio-Technical Systems

• Socio-Technical System Stack
• Socio-Technical System Layers
• Equipment
• Operating system
• Communications and Data Management
• Application Systems
• Business Processes
• Organizations
• Society
• Socio-Technical System Characteristics
• Emergent Properties
• Non-deterministic
• Complex Relationships with Organizational Objectives
• Socio-Technical System Design Approaches
• Design Challenges
• Socio-Technical Systems Engineering

Software System Architecture

• Software Architecture Concepts
• Architectural Elements
• Stakeholders
• Architectural Descriptions
• Architectural Views
• Architectural Perspectives
• Role of Software Architects
• Architecture Definition Process
• Architectural Styles
• Pipe and filter
• Object Oriented
• Event Based
• Layered
• Repositories
• Process Control
• Distributed Architectures
• Architectural Analysis
• Domain Specific Design
• Middleware
• Model Driven Architecture
• Aspect Oriented Programming

Dependability and Security Engineering

• Security Engineering
• Usability and Psychology
• Protocols
• Access Control
• Cryptography
• Distributed Systems
• Economics
• Multilevel Security
• Multilateral Security
• Physical Protection
• Monitoring and Metering
• Security Printing
• Biometrics
• Emission Security
• Network Attack and Defense
• API Attacks
• Physical Tamper Resistance
• Telecom System Security
• System Evaluation and Assurance
• Managing the Development of Secure Systems

Software Project Planning and Management

• Project Management Framework
• Project Initiation
• Project Planning
• Project Monitoring
• Software Development Plan
• Project Management Plan and Software Development Management
• Pitfalls in Software Development Management Plan and Project Management Plan
• Scope Management
• Software Time Management
• Software Cost Management
• Software Risk Management
• Software configuration Management
• Software Release and Deployment Management
• Software Quality Management

Dependability and Security Assurance

• Managing Risks from Vulnerable Software
• Software Security Vulnerabilities
• Sources of Source Code Security Vulnerabilities
• Framework for Software Security Assurance
• Risk Assessment
• Vulnerability Management
• Security Standards
• Ongoing Assessment and Assurance
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
• Security, Reliability and Practices
• Roles and Responsibilities for Software Security Assurance

Software System Configuration Management

• Software Configuration Management Definition
• Software Configuration Item
• Software Configuration Management Directory
• Disciplines in Software Configuration Management
• Software Configuration Management for Different Software Environment
• Automated Tools for Software Configuration Management
• Software Configuration Management Planning

 Software System Quality Management

• Software Quality Management
• Fundamentals of Software Quality
• Quality control and Reliability
• Quality Management System
• Defect Analysis
• Software Quality Assurance
• Statistical Software Quality Assurance
• Software Reliability
• Software Safety

Agile Software Systems Engineering

• Principles of Agile Methods
• Agile Method Applicability
• Agile Methods and Software Maintenance
• Plan Driven and Agile Development
• Extreme Programming
• System Engineering for Agile Software Development
• Agile System Engineering Processes
• Systems Engineering Agile Systems

Agile Software Development

• Agile Process Philosophy
• Agile Software Development Methodologies
• Extreme Programming
• Dynamic System Development Method
• Adaptive Software Development
• Crystal Methods
• Scrum
• XP
• Agile Unified Process
• Lean Software Development
• Feature Driven Development
• Business Benefits of Software Agility
• Rational Unified Process (RUM)

Verification and Validation

• Software Inspections
• Design Reviews
• Formal and Informal Reviews
• Software Testing
• Software Test Techniques
• Software Test Tools
• Software Demonstration
• Software Prototyping
• Software Simulation
• Independent Verification and Validation

Software Construction

• Code Complexity
• Coding Process
• Requirements for Coding
• Assessing Code Quality
• Developing Code Standards

Distributed Software Systems

• Concept of distributed software
• Distributed system characteristic
• Resource sharing
• Concurrency
• Scalability
• Fault tolerance
• Transparency
• Disadvantages of distributed software systems
• Distributed system architectures
• Multiprocessor architecture
• Client server architecture
• Distributed object
• COBRA
• Object request broker

 Hands-on and In-Class Activities

• Labs
• Workshops
• Group Activities

Sample Workshops and Labs for Introduction to Software Engineering

• Role of Software Case Study
• Waterfall Model Example
• Software Crisis for a Given Scenario
• Plan Driven Software Development versus Agile Driven Development
• Personal Health monitoring
• Software Development Model Case Study
• Requirement Development Experiment
• Parking Garage Automation
• Traffic Monitoring
• Requirement Elicitation Case Study
• Software Design Example
• Restaurant Automation Example
• Multiprocessor Traffic Control System Example
• A Client Server ATM System
• Software Performance Testing Case
• Internet Banking System
• Workshop on How to Write a Software Project Proposal

Reliability Engineering Principles Training for Managers Course Description

Reliability Engineering Training for Managers, covers  the basic principles, concepts, practical problem solving techniques, and a brief review of statistical calculations. Because this training is designed for non-engineers who often don’t have a strong background in math, the focus of training is mostly on principals of reliability engineering and problem solving practices and less on statistics and mathematical models. Reliability Engineering Principles (REP) Training hands-on training will assist you to enhance your business performance by cutting the costs associated with unreliability. REF training will teach you how to apply reliability tools to identify and resolve cost issues rather than functioning as technical miracles.

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Learn About:

• Mean time frame between failures events
• TPM relationship with reliability principles
• Analyzing reliability data
• Weibull failure
• Monte Carlo simulations
• Pareto distributions
• Fault tree analysis
• Design review
• Load/strength interactions
• Sudden death and simultaneous testing
• Reliability growth models and displays
• Reliability strategies and standards
• Reliability audits
• Bathtub curves
• Effectiveness: availability, reliability, maintainability, and capability
• Weibull, normal, & log-normal probability plots
• Decision trees merging reliability and costs
• Critical items highly impacting safety/costs
• Failure rate
• Prediction
• Availability vs. Reliability
• MTTF, MTBF, and MTTR
• FMEA
• FMECA
• FTA
• RBD
• QFD
• Reliability testing strategies
• Accelerated testing
• Failure recording, analysis, and corrective action
• Contracting for reliability
• Management’s role in reliability improvements

TONEX REP Training Framework

• Long on concepts and problem solving techniques, short on math and statistics
• Fun, interactive, dynamic class
• Including labs, group activities, and hands-on workshop

Audience

Reliability Engineering Principles Training is a 3-day course designed for:

• Project managers
• Business owners
• Safety managers
• Quality managers
• Reliability managers
• Production/design managers
• Warranty analysts
• Problem-solving team personnel
• Asset reliability managers
• Capacity and predictive maintenance managers

Training Objectives

Upon the completion of Reliability Engineering Principles training for non-engineers, attendees are able to:

• Describe the bases, rationale, and concepts of reliability engineering
• Use the most relevant probability distribution to measure model times to failure
• Articulate the relationship between the time to failure distribution, the reliability function, and the hazard rate
• Estimate reliability values from test data and identify confidence limits on the results
• Use required tools to ensure a reliable product
• Explain the differences between assessing the reliability of a fixable and non-fixable systems
• Derive and sustain a strategic reliability engineering
• Derive control protocols to reduce risks and increase asset use
• Develop predictive strategies
• Construct an efficient predictive maintenance process
• Establish a root cause analysis procedure to reduce the wasted time, increase productivity, and a culture of continuous improvement

Course Outline

Overview of Reliability Engineering Principals

• What are the reliability engineering principals?
• Why reliability is important?
• Impact of reliability on the system
• Reliability dictionary
• Why would you want to enhance reliability?
• Reliability is art as well as science
• Predictive techniques
• Reliability improved system features
• Availability
• Maintenance management policies

Reliability Risk Assessments

• Engineering techniques
• Reliability hazard analysis
• Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
• Fault tree analysis (FTA)
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Load and material stress
• Fatigue and creep analysis
• Human error analysis
• Manufacturing defect analysis
• Reliability testing

Measuring Reliability

• Requirements
• The bathtub curve
• Life distributions
  • Distribution functions
  • Particular life distributions
• Modeling system reliability
  • Series systems
  • Active redundancy
  • M-out-of-N redundancy
• Reliability prediction

Design for Reliability (DoE)

• Life cycle
• Reliability approaches
• Top-down methods
• Bottom-up methods

Reliability Engineering Actions

• Maintenance Prevention
• LCC Assessment
• Positive Maintenance
• Capital Equipment Replacement
• Cost/effective estimation

Working with Reliability Engineering Tools

• Attaining reliability associated data
• Reliability indices
• Decision trees
• Availability concepts, effectiveness equation and costs
• Probability plots
• Bathtub curves
• Pareto distributions and critical items lists
• Reliability block diagrams
• FMEA
• FMECA
• FTA
• Design reviews
• Vendor and parts control
• Thermal analysis (TA)
• Environmental stress screening (ESS)
• Crow/AMSAA reliability growth models
• Reliability strategies
• Benchmarking reliability

Essential Principles of Reliability Investigation

• Non-Probabilistic Reliability Methods
• Probabilistic Reliability Methods
• Historical Frequencies
• Manufacturers’ survivorship/mortality curves
• Expert Opinion Elicitation (EOE)

Warranty and Maintenance

• Product warranties review
• A review of maintenance
• Warranty and corrective maintenance
• Warranty and preventive maintenance
• Extended warranties and service contracts
• Stochastic point processes
• Perfect maintenance
• Minimal repair
• Imperfect or worse repaid
• Complex maintenance policy
• Reliability growth

Preventive Maintenance Models

• Block replacement models
• Age replacement models
• Ordering models
• Inspection models

Maintenance and Optimum Policy

• Replacement policies
• Preventive maintenance policies
• Inspection policies

Accelerated Life Testing

• Design of accelerated life testing plans
• Accelerated life testing models
• Extensions of the proportional hazards model

Human and Medical Device Reliability

• Human and medical device reliability terms and definitions
• Human stress—performance effectiveness, human error types, and causes of human error
• Human reliability analysis methods
• Human unreliability data sources
• Medical device reliability related facts and figures
• Medical device recalls and equipment classification
• Human error in medical devices
• Tools for medical device reliability assurance
• Data sources for performing medical device reliability
• Guidelines for reliability engineers with respect to medical devices

Probabilistic Risk Assessment

• Probabilistic risk assessment methodology
• Engineering risk vs environmental risk
• Risk measures and public impact
• Transition to risk-informed regulation
• Some successful probabilistic risk assessment applications
• Comments on uncertainty
• Deterministic, probabilistic, prescriptive, performance-based

Random-Request Availability

• System description and definition
• Mathematical expression for the random-request availability
• Numerical examples
• Simulation results
• Approximation

Failure Reporting and corrective action system (FRACAS)

• Definition of FRACAS
• Closed Loop Reporting System
• FRACAS Procedure
• Failure Identification
• FRACAS Process
• FRACAS Responsibilities
• Keys players
• How to prepare it
• Role of Engineering Managers  and Program/ Project Managers
• Role of Reliability and Maintainability Engineers
• System Maintainers and Production/ QA Staff
• Integration & Test Engineering

 Reliability Management

• Key aspects of reliability management
• Reliability plan elements
• Best practices

DoDAF 2 training, DoD Architecture Framework Version 2.0, advanced course and workshop focuses on creating and building DoDAF 2.0 viewpoints based on a selected project. DoDAF 2.0 Training also focuses on teaching the students how  to create and model architecture data.

Through the selected projects, data will be collected, organized, and stored by a wide range of architecture tools developed by sources and organized using the DoDAF Meta-model (DM2).

Why DODAF 2 Training with TONEX?

TONEX Advanced DoDAF 2.0 training will help the students to create their own viewpoints based on a common denominator across their domain and boundaries. This is a 100% hands-on and project based.

Other Related DoDAF Training Courses

DoDAF 2.0 Training Workshop

After extensively covering architecture development with DoDAF, the DoDAF Training will focus on DoDAF 2.0 viewpoints and models. After briefly introducing  the attendees to each model, the students will master how to create viewpoints and views using a real project (Scenario based) through various roles such as operators, PM and EA.

DoDAF six-step process recommended as best practice by enterprise architecture team. There are collaborative efforts were undertaken between:

• Program Management Team
• Enterprise Architecture Team
• Operational Team
• System and Engineering Team
• Compliance Team

Using DoDAF Six-Step Development Process, the attendees will create DoDAF 2.0 Viewpoints.

Bluetooth Smart Technology Training or Bluetooth Low Energy Training

Bluetooth® Smart (low energy) technology, also known as BTLE or Bluetooth Smart used in high-end smart-phones, smart mobile devices, sports devices, sensors, medical devices, IoT and other smart devices. Bluetooth^® Smart technology allows users to connect their smartphones, tablets or other  to the future 50 billions of smart devices by 2020. Bluetooth Smart Technology Training is a technical course covering all aspects of Bluetooth Core and enhancements for Smart Technology (Low Energy).

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, the attendees will be able to:

• Understand the link between Bluetooth and Bluetooth Smart or Low Energy standards
• List the relevant features and technologies for Bluetooth Smart
• Explain the different deployment scenarios for Bluetooth an Bluetooth Smart
• Describe the underlying technologies and protocols related to Bluetooth Smart
• Explain protocols used in Bluetooth Smart including: Physical Layer, Link Layer, Direct Test Mode, L2CAP for Low Energy, GAP for Low Energy, Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)
• Security and AES Encryption  and Security Manager (SM)
• Explain the security features and protection mechanisms relevant for Bluetooth Smart deployments
• Explain the future technology and application trends in Bluetooth Smart
• Bluetooth Smart training course is intended for Engineers and Non-Engineers looking to gain a technical understanding of Bluetooth Smart and its future trends

Course Content

Overview of Bluetooth Technology

• Technology Overview
• Bluetooth Core Specification​
• Overview of Operations
• Core System Architecture
• Profiles Overview
• What is Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy)?
• Remote display profile
• Sensor profile
• Classic Bluetooth Technology Security
• Bluetooth Smart Technology Security

Overview of Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy) features

• Active slaves
• Application throughput
• Basic Rate and Low Energy
• Regulatory aspects
• Combined Core Configuration
• Distance/Range
• Electrostatic discharge
• Ultra-low peak
• Frequency band
• Frequency tolerance
• Immunity tests
• Latency (from a non-connected state)
• Cost
• Maximum conducted output power
• Modulation
• Multi-vendor interoperability
• Network topology
• Over the air data rate
• Peak current consumption
• Power consumption
• Power spectral density
• Primary use cases
• Profile concept
• RF electromagnetic field
• Robustness
• Security
• Service discovery
• Spurious conducted emissions

Bluetooth Smart Protocols

• Physical Layer
• Link Layer
• Enhancements to HCI for Low Energy
• Direct Test Mode
• Security and AES Encryption
• Enhancements to L2CAP for Low Energy
• Enhancements to GAP for Low Energy
• Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)
• Security Manager (SM)

Bluetooth Smart Link layer specification

• Low power idle mode operation
• Device discovery
• Reliable point-to-multipoint data transfer
• Advanced power-save
• Advanced encryption functionalities
• Single mode and dual mode

Bluetooth Configuration

• Core Configurations
• Basic Rate Core Configuration
• Enhanced Data Rate Core Configurations
• High Speed Core Configuration
• Low Energy Core Configuration
• Basic Rate and Low Energy Combined Core Configuration
• Host Controller Interface Core Configuration

 Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)

• Adopted GATT based Bluetooth Profiles and Services
• Service-based architecture based on the attribute protocol (ATT)
• GATT Architecture
• Profiles
• Applications
• Generic Access Profile
• Generic Attribute Profile
• Attribute Protocol
• Security Manager
• Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol
• Host Controller Interface
• Link Layer
• Direct Test Mode
• Physical Layer

GATT-Based Specifications

• Client
• Server
• Characteristic
• Service
• Descriptor
• UUID discovery for all primary services
• Find a services
• ANP (Alert Notification Profile)
• ANS (Alert Notification Service)
• CTS (Current Time Service)
• DIS (Device Information Service)
• FMP (Find Me Profile)
• HTP (Health Thermometer Profile)
• HTS (Health Thermometer Service)
• HRP (Heart Rate Profile)
• HRS (Heart Rate Service)
• IAS (Immediate Alert Service)
• LLS (Link Loss Service)
• NDCS (Next DST Change Service)
• PASP (Phone Alert Status Profile)
• PASS (Phone Alert Status Service)
• PXP (Proximity Profile)
• RTUS (Reference Time Update Service)
• TIP (Time Profile)
• TPS (Tx Power Service)

Mobile Bluetooth Development

• Overview of iOS Bluetooth development
• Overview of Bluetooth development on Android

Supply Support Logistics Course, SSLC Training Course

Supply Support Logistics Course provides an intensive training program designed to provide participants with an appreciation of the complexities and inter-relationships of efforts required to achieve and maintain supply support objectives for equipment/systems and alteration/modifications for Ships, Carriers, Submarines and Shore Sites.

Learn about:

• Logistics & Supply Management
• Acquisition Logistics Overview
• Role of Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Performance-Based Agreement Toolkit and OSD Supply Chain Integration
• Principles of logistics as a multi-functional, technical management discipline
• Design, development, test, production, fielding, sustainment, and improvement modifications of DoD systems
• System’s life-cycle costs
• Operations and support costs
• Support considerations and system’s design requirements
• Support throughout its life-cycle
• Product Support elements
• Initial fielding and operational support of the system
• Role of Program Manager (PM) and Product Support Manager (PSM)
• Operating & Support (O&S) phase
• Employing Performance-Based Life-Cycle Product Support
• Sustainment Metrics
• Materiel Availability, Supportability and readiness to the user

The main elements of Acquisition Based Logistics are covered including

• Contractor Logistics Support
• Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)
• Life-Cycle Sustainment
• Performance-Based Logistics
• Supply Chain Management
• Supply Management
• Standardization
• Reliability
• Data Management
• Sustainment Metrics
• Just-in-Time (JIT) Inventory
• Life-Cycle Signature Support Plan (LSSP)
• Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP)
• Product Support Strategy
• Support Concept
• Supportability

Learn about Defense Acquisition References including:

• DoD Directive 5000.01 “Defense Acquisition System
• MIL-Handbook 502 “DoD Handbook Acquisition Logistics
• Product Support Managers Guidebook
• DoD Logistics Assessment Guidebook
• Integrated Product Support Element Guidebook
• Naval Aviation Systems Team Acquisition Logistics Support Plan Guide
• Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) Content Guide
• Flexibility Sustainment Guide
• Performance Based Logistics: A Program Manager’s Product Support Guide
• Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Guidebook
• Performance-Based Agreement Toolkit
• Introduction to Operational Availability
• Air Force Life Cycle Logistics Workforce Guidebook
• DoD Logistics Transformation Strategy “Achieving Knowledge-Enabled Logistics
• DoD Directive 4140.1 “Supply Chain Management Policy
• DoD 4140.1R “Supply Chain Materiel Management Regulation
• OSD “A Guide to Increased Reliability and Reduced Logistics Footprint

Supply Support Logistics Course will help participants understand Navy and Department of Defense (DoD) supply support elements which include:

• acquisition logistics;
• maintenance planning;
• provisioning;
• alteration installation management;
• equipment/ship configuration management;
• ship/equipment alteration development;
• allowance development;
• General Fund (GF) and Capital Fund (CF) material asset management;
• material handling/storage and material outfitting.

Supply Support Logistics Training will focus on Government Furnished Equipment/Systems (GFE) and their alterations / modifications and cover the above supply support elements for GFE equipment/systems and alteration/modifications being installed on Ships / Carriers / Submarines during new construction, Navy modernization periods, and pier side alteration installation team (AIT) installations. It will also include all shore based activity functions in obtaining supply support objectives and goals.
The course will cover policies, procedures, databases, and processes, which contribute to, or function within, the overall Product Support Management (PSM) of Carriers, Ships, Submarines, and Weapon Systems/Equipment in the Navy; and include:

• design interface;
• sustaining engineering;
• supply support, maintenance planning and management;
• Packaging, Handling, Storage, & Transportation (PHS&T);
• technical data;
• support equipment;
• training and training support;
• manpower and personnel;
• facilities and infrastructure;
• computer resources;
• alteration installation management,
• ship/equipment alteration development,
• provisioning, equipment/ship configuration management;
• allowance development;
• and material outfitting process.

Additionally, training on Navy alteration installation management; ship/equipment alteration development; planning yard process; and the Navy Modernization Process Management and Operations manual will be covered.
The course will review policies, procedures, databases, and processes, which contribute to, or function within the overall supply support objectives of the Navy to include the goals and objectives for new equipment/system acquisitions; alteration/modifications; new ship construction; Navy modernization process and shore activity functions and policies for the Inventory Locator Service (ILS) certification goals for supply support for provisioning, equipment / ship configuration management; GF material asset management; and material outfitting process for Ships, Carriers and Submarines.

Other Topics covered:

• DoD Supply Chain Materiel Management Procedures
• DoD 4140.01
• Operational Requirements
• Demand and Supply Planning
• Materiel Sourcing
• Make and Maintain Materiel
• Delivery of Materiel
• Materiel Returns, Retention, and Disposition
• Supporting Technologies
• Materiel Data Management and Exchange
• Materiel Programs
• Metrics and Inventory Stratification Reporting
• Management of Critical Safety Items, Controlled Inventory Items Including Nuclear Weapons-Related Materiel
• Management of Bulk Petroleum Products, Storage, and Distribution Facilities
• Defense Integrated Materiel Management for Consumable Items
• Shelf-Life Item Management Manual: Program Administration
• Shelf-Life Item Management Manual: Materiel Quality Control Storage Standards
• DoD 4140.65-M Compliance For Defense Packaging: Phytosanitary Requirements for Wood Packaging Material (WPM)
• Integrated Materiel Management of Nonconsumable Items
• Defense Materiel Disposition Manual
•  Defense Demilitarization: Program Administration (Incorporates and cancels DoD 4160.21-M-1)
• Defense Transportation Regulation (DTR)
• DODM 5100.76 Physical Security of Sensitive Conventional Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives
• DoD 5105.38-M Security Assistance Management Manual
• DoD 5160.65-M Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition (SMCA)
• DoDM 5200.01 DoD 5200.01-R has been reissued as DoDM 5200.01
• DOD INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM: OVERVIEW, CLASSIFICATION, AND DECLASSIFICATION
• DOD INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM: MARKING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
• DOD INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM: PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
• DOD INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM: CONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION (CUI)
• DoD 5200.02-R Personnel Security Program
• DoD 5200.08-R Physical Security Program
• DoD 7000.14-R Department of Defense Financial Management Regulation (FMR)

Logistic Support for Government Furnished

• GFAE: Government-Furnished Aeronautical Equipment
• GFE: Government-Furnished Equipment
• GFF: Government-Furnished Facilities
• GFI: Government-Furnished Information
• GFM: Government-Furnished Material
• GFP: Government-Furnished Property
• GFS: Government-Furnished Software

TARGET AUDIENCE

Government Civilian, Military, and Navy support contractor personnel, Department of Defense Contractors (Equipment / System Contractors, Shipbuilders and Ship Repair Contractors)