Whether you require a single course for a small group or an extensive training program for your entire workforce, on-site courses offer significant savings and convenience with the same quality hands-on instruction delivered in TONEX Training Education Centers around the world.
TONEX Training offers many training seminars in variety of subject areas including Telecom, Mobile and Cellular, Wireless, Engineering, Technology, IT, business, AI and Machine Learning, Systems Engineering, Defense, Tactical Data Links (TDL), Aerospace, Aviation, Space Engineering, Specification Writing, Power and Energy, Enterprise Architecture Management, Mini MBA, Finance, Logistics, Blockchain, Leadership, and Product/Project Management. We offer programs in our four state-of-the-art Executive Conference Centers and in 20 other cities in US and international locations including:
- Atlanta, GA
- Dallas, TX
- Plano, TX
- San Francisco, CA
- Santa Clara, California
- Santa Monica, California
- Alexandria, Virginia
- New York City, NY
- Rome, Italy
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- London, UK
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- Stockholm, Sweden
- Tokyo, Japan
- Seoul, Korea
- Hong Kong
- Bangalore, India
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Dubai, UAE
RF Engineering Training Boot Camp is the unique answer to your RF planning, design and engineering in any wireless networks needs.
RF Engineering Training, also known as Radio Frequency Engineering, is a subset of electrical engineering that deals with devices which are designed to operate in the Radio Frequency spectrum: range of about 3 kHz up to 300 GHz.
RF Engineering Training covers all aspects of Radio Frequency Engineering, a subset of electrical engineering. RF Engineering training will incorporate theory and practices to illustrate the role of RF into almost everything that transmits or receives a radio wave which includes : cellular networks such as GSM, CDMA, UMTS.HSPA+, LTE, LTE-Advanced, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, WiMAX, Satellite Communications, VSAT, two-way radio, and Public Safety Solutions.
RF Engineers are a part of a highly specialized field and are an integral part of wireless solutions. Their expertise is needed to design effective and reliable solutions to produce quality results, an in-depth knowledge of math, physics and general electronics theory is required.
RF Engineers are specialists in their respective field and assist in both the planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of different RF solutions.
To produce quality results in RF Engineering Training bootcamp, the program covers an in-depth knowledge of math, physics, general electronics theory as well as specialized modules in propagation and microstrip design may be required.
Topics Covered in RF Engineering Training Bootcamp – Crash Course:
- RF Theory
- RF Engineering Principles
- Modulation
- Antenna Theory
- Interference Analysis
- Link Design
- Principles of Noise and Interference
- Principles of Jamming
- Communications Control and Jamming Theory of Operation
- RF System Specifications
- RF Surveys and Planning
- Radio Wave Propagation and Modeling
- Frequency Planning
- Traffic Dimensioning
- Cell Planning Principals
- Coverage Analysis
- RF Optimization
- RF Benchmarking
- RF Performance
- RF Safety
- RF Simulation
- RF Testing
- RF System Integration and Measurements
- Planning of Radio Networks
- Advanced Topics in Cell Planning
- Advanced Topics in RF Planning and Architecture
- Voice and Data Traffic Engineering
- RAN Optimization
Why choose TONEX for your TOGAF Training and TOGAF Certification.
TOGAF Training and TOGAF Certification by TONEX, A Fully Accredited Training Provider by the Open Group.
TONEX offers TOGAF 9 Training Bootcampo, an intensive, highly interactive TOGAF and Enterprise Architecture learning experience with theory, examples, case studies, workshops, simulations and practice exams. Get Certified by TOGAF Experts.
TOGAF® is an Open Group Standard. It is a proven enterprise architecture framework used by many enterprises to improve business efficiency. It is the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals. Enterprise architecture professionals fluent in TOGAF standards enjoy greater industry credibility, job effectiveness, and career opportunities. TOGAF helps practitioners avoid being locked into proprietary methods, utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, and realize a greater return on investment.
First published in 1995, TOGAF was based on the US Department of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM). From this sound foundation, The Open Group Architecture Forum has developed successive versions of TOGAF at regular intervals and published them on The Open Group public web site.
Why should I choose TONEX for RF Optimization Training?
RF Optimization Training Course provides a thorough overview of the principles behind RF optimization applied to GSM, EDGE, CDMA/CDMA2000, WCDMA/UMTS, LTE, Microwaves, SATCOM, VSAT and Wireless LANs/Hot Spots. This four-day course builds competence in the principles and present-day practices used to improve the operating performance of modern wireless systems. Core performance indicators are thoroughly explored and desirable healthy operating conditions are identified. Both system-side and mobile-side performance-monitoring tools are introduced. The main operating parameters are identified along with the considerations necessary to properly set them in real systems.
Why choose TONEX for your TOGAF Training and Certification.
TOGAF®, an Open Group Standard, is a proven business driven enterprise architecture framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve efficiency without total disruption in the on-going process. Utilizing the ADM, techniques and guidelines, TOGAF has become the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals and the business.
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.
Systems Engineering Project Management Training Course Description
The Systems Engineering Project Management Training course is designed for project practitioners and systems engineers interested in learning the fundamentals of systems engineering and project management. Systems Engineering and Project Management Training course evaluates options for bridging the gaps between Program/Project Management and Systems Engineering practices and frameworks.
This two-day Systems Engineering and Project Management Training course is intended to enhance knowledge and skills in applying PM and SE processes, techniques, frameworks and practices over the project life cycle. The course focuses on defining, planning and implementing system projects and provides insight for leading and managing project and technical teams.
Historically, program/project managers and systems engineers have viewed the stakeholder problem entirely from within their own disciplinary perspectives with little or no interaction and collaboration. They each manage project/system planning and implementation, defining the components and their interactions, building the components, and integrating the components.
Systems engineers’ and program managers’ unique knowledge, skills, experiences, and unique capabilities are essential for the successful execution of the program/project.
Project management and systems engineering Integration concepts will be addressed to describe practices, approaches and issues. The participants will compare, differentiate, and discuss similarities, differences, and applications in order to draw conclusions on how to apply these concepts in their organization.
This course will leverage the unique roles and responsibilities of the project managers and the systems engineers during the workshops and exercises.
TONEX’s Project Management and Systems Engineering Competency Framework is introduced including:
- Project Conceptualization
- Resource Management
- Project Implementation
- Project Closeout
- Program Control and Evaluation
- System Analysis and Design
- System/Product Realization
- Technical Management Strategies
- Technical Management Processes
- Technical Processes for designing systems
- Technical Processes for product realization.
Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Describe guidance on project management and systems engineering processes and techniques
- Differentiate between technology and management aspects of systems engineering
- Explain the impact of project management and systems engineering challenges and decisions
- Apply systems engineering processes and system thinking concepts to specific system problems
- Evaluate the similarities, relationships, differences and interfaces between system and project elements
- Apply Lean & Agile Systems Engineering
- Apply leadership principles to project management and systems engineering tasks
- Differentiate approaches to PM and SE based on project scope
- Organize, plan, execute and adapt an integrated project plan, systems engineering management plan (SEMP) and other tools to balance cost, schedule, performance and risk across the lifecycle
- Manage the integration project management and systems engineering
- Direct the identification of system functional boundaries
- Manage Competencies, Innovation and Technical Areas
- Acquisition Strategies and Management Communication and Decision Making
Knowledge will be transferred using lectures, group activities, exercises and case studies. Participants will work on key PM and SE processes as part of the group project.
Topics covered:
Systems Engineering (SE) and Project Management (PM)
- Similarities & Differences in a Project
- Project Planning and Control
- Project Planning
- Resource Allocation
- Financial Contract Management
- Systems Engineering
- A Specialized Technical Manager
- System Architecture
- Technical Coordination
- Systems Integration
- Managerial Skills Technical Skills
- Common Responsibilities
- Task Definition
- Risk Management
- Customer Interaction
Shared Capabilities between SE and PM
- Leadership
- Negotiation
- Communications
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Sustained focus on mission
- Risk management
- Configuration management
Project Management (PM)
- Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) guidebook
- Knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities
- Scheduling, Cost, Risk Management, WBS, Resources
Management Plans
- Statement of Work
- Cost Management
- Schedule Management
- Technical Management
- Resource Management
- Risk Management
- Subcontract Management
- Configuration and Data Management
- Quality Management
Systems Engineering as a Specialized Technical Manager
- Systems Engineering Process
- Systems Engineer’s Role
- Poor Systems Engineering Practices
- Failures and root cause
- Bad requirement
- Testing and V&V process
- Problem reporting and tracking
- The Merging of Systems Engineering (SE) & Project
- Management (PM): Similarities & Differences
Systems Engineering Process Control
- Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)
- Standard Systems Engineering Process and Practices
- Reviews, Audits, and Lessons Learned
- Analysis and Change Definition
- Systems Engineering Product Control
- Configuration Management
- Data Management
- Baseline Maintenance
- Requirements and Design Loops
PM and SE Differences
- Project Management
- Communication planning
- Team building
- Procurement management
- Systems Engineering
- ConOps
- Functional Analysis
- Requirements Management
- Synthesis
- Trade Studies
- Interface Management
PM and SE Similarities
- Similarities
- Plan for producing a product or service
- Conduct stakeholder analysis
- Account for scope, time, cost, quality, risk, and the human resources to complete the project
Risk Management: PM vs. SE
- PMBOK (project management body of knowledge)
- Risk management planning
- Risk identification
- Risk analysis
- Risk response planning
- Risk monitoring and control
- INCOSE Handbook
- Risk planning
- Risk identification
- Risk assessment
- Risk analysis
- Risk handling
Configuration Management (CM)
- Control over requirements, specifications, configuration definition documentation, and design changes
- Baseline Overview
- Implementation
- Configuration Identification
- Configuration Control
- Configuration Status Accounting
- Configuration Audits
Systems Engineering and Project Management Best Practices
- Building Blocks of Project Management and Planning
- WBS to Schedule
- Resource Loading to Project Budget
- Organizing for Project Management
- Managing Stakeholder Needs and Expectations
- Management Information Systems
- Development and Management of Requirements
- Lifecycle Cost Estimating
- Budget and Budget Strategy
- Acquisition and Contract Management
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Technical Risk and Project Risk Management
- Leadership and Teamwork
- Decisions and Decision Making
- Building Blocks of Systems Engineering
- Defining Stakeholder Expectations & Technical Solutions
- Systems Engineering Management
- Systems Thinking Hierarchy
- Why is it Important?
- Hierarchical Relationships for Systems of Interest
- Techniques That Promote Systems Thinking
- Master Systems Engineering Plan
- System Specification
- ConOps
- Systems Requirements
- System Architecture
- System Design
- Validation Planning and
- Solution Requirements
- Concurrent Engineering
- Discovery and Analysis
- Realizing Systems
- Implementing, Integrating, Verifying, Validating & Transitioning the System
- Leadership Skills
- PM & SE Integration
- Project Control
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Lean & Agile Systems Engineering
Who Should Attend
- Systems Engineers
- Project Managers
- Design engineers
- Engineering managers
- Hardware engineers
- Product managers
- Project advisers
- Project directors
- Project engineers
- Software engineers
- Software systems engineers
- Systems analyst
- Systems engineers
Why choose TONEX for your M2M Training?
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Training course covers all business and technical aspects of mobile Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and M2M ecosystem.
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is considered to be a key enabler of smart applications and services across a broad range of vertical markets including automation, utilities, asset management, telemetry, transportation.logistics, telematics, healthcare, retail solutions, pricing, and vending machines.
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) training course illustrates how billion diverse devices are wirelessly connected to a network, enabling two-way communication to allow network-ready devices to connect and share real-time data via RF signals. Monitored and managed remotely, M2M automates processes in industries from lead to smarter technology and efficient distribution leading to greater control over business operations.
RF Engineering Training Boot Camp is the unique answer to your RF planning, design and engineering in any wireless networks needs.
RF Engineering Training, also known as Radio Frequency Engineering, is a subset of electrical engineering that deals with devices which are designed to operate in the Radio Frequency spectrum: range of about 3 kHz up to 300 GHz.
RF Engineering Training covers all aspects of Radio Frequency Engineering, a subset of electrical engineering. RF Engineering training will incorporate theory and practices to illustrate the role of RF into almost everything that transmits or receives a radio wave which includes : cellular networks such as GSM, CDMA, UMTS.HSPA+, LTE, LTE-Advanced, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, WiMAX, Satellite Communications, VSAT, two-way radio, and Public Safety Solutions.
RF Engineers are a part of a highly specialized field and are an integral part of wireless solutions. Their expertise is needed to design effective and reliable solutions to produce quality results, an in-depth knowledge of math, physics and general electronics theory is required.
RF Engineers are specialists in their respective field and assist in both the planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of different RF solutions.
To produce quality results in RF Engineering Training bootcamp, the program covers an in-depth knowledge of math, physics, general electronics theory as well as specialized modules in propagation and microstrip design may be required.
Topics Covered in RF Engineering Training Bootcamp – Crash Course:
- RF Theory
- RF Engineering Principles
- Modulation
- Antenna Theory
- Interference Analysis
- Link Design
- Principles of Noise and Interference
- Principles of Jamming
- Communications Control and Jamming Theory of Operation
- RF System Specifications
- RF Surveys and Planning
- Radio Wave Propagation and Modeling
- Frequency Planning
- Traffic Dimensioning
- Cell Planning Principals
- Coverage Analysis
- RF Optimization
- RF Benchmarking
- RF Performance
- RF Safety
- RF Simulation
- RF Testing
- RF System Integration and Measurements
- Planning of Radio Networks
- Advanced Topics in Cell Planning
- Advanced Topics in RF Planning and Architecture
- Voice and Data Traffic Engineering
- RAN Optimization
IPTV Training
Why choose TONEX for your IPTV Training?
IPTV training provides a detailed understanding of the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) technology. IPTV, or Internet Protocol television, is an IP-based technology that many service providers are using to deliver TV service. IP technology means that your TV, PC, home phone and wireless devices could all be integrated to inter-work with more control and more personalization.
Why IPTV Training? Learn how IPTV technology delivers TV, Voice home phone service*and high speed Internet thru one connection. Know Digital picture details and quality vs traditional analog. Understand how IPTV delivers a fully interactive on-screen programming guide and Video on Demand services
The course will cover major aspects of the IPTV standard from a business, network. service, architecture, hardware, software, protocols and platforms perspective. TONEX’s established background in legacy video, along with a comprehensive understanding of the IP technologies, provides rich insight into the IPTV technology and results in a superior training experience for our customers. The course provides in depth information, example implementations, case studies, and practical guidance to give your team members a running start.
Learn about generic network transport capability requirements to support IPTV services,
including Broadcast TV and Content on Demand services, based on the characteristics of IPTV services.
Why choose TONEX for your TOGAF Training and Certification.
TOGAF®, an Open Group Standard, is a proven business driven enterprise architecture framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve efficiency without total disruption in the on-going process. Utilizing the ADM, techniques and guidelines, TOGAF has become the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals and the business.
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.
Why choose TONEX for your TOGAF Training and Certification.
TOGAF®, an Open Group Standard, is a proven business driven enterprise architecture framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve efficiency without total disruption in the on-going process. Utilizing the ADM, techniques and guidelines, TOGAF has become the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals and the business.
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.
Fault Tree Analysis Training by TONEX, FTA Training
Fault Tree Analysis is s a systematic method of system analysis and part of operations research in system reliability and safety. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) examines a system from top-dwon and provides graphical symbols for ease of understanding. It incorporates mathematical tools to focus on critical areas.
Fault tree analysis can also be also as an analytical technique for tracing the events which could contribute. It can be used in accident investigation and in a detailed hazard assessment. The fault tree is a logic diagram based on the principle of multi-causality, which traces all branches of events which could contribute to an accident or failure.
Learn the concepts of Fault tree analysis as it is used a symbolic “analytical logic techniques” and its application in reliability and safety analysis. Learn how basic events, often made up of failures at the component level, could lead to a hypothesized failure of a system
SDN OpenFlow Training, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Training by TONEX
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture that is dynamic, manageable, cost-effective, and adaptable used in high-bandwidth, dynamic nature of today’s applications. SDN architecture decouples the network control and forwarding functions enabling the network control to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be abstracted for applications and network services. The OpenFlow™ protocol is a foundational element for building SDN solutions. OpenFlow is a communications protocol giving access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network.
SDN OpenFLow training also covers Network Functions Virtualization (NVF). NVF will eventually transform the way the network operators architect their networks. NFV will be evolved as a standard IT virtualization technology to consolidate many network equipment into high performance, high volume servers, switches and storage, which could be located in Data Centers, Network Nodes and in the end user premises.
SDN OpenFlow training course covers Software-defined networking (SDN) as an approach to networking where the control is decoupled from hardware and given to a software application called a controller supporting a switching fabric across multi-vendor hardware and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
OpenFlow as the most popular specification for creating a software-defined network is an open standard allows network administrators remotely control routing tables and added as a feature to commercial Ethernet switches, routers and wireless access points
Why choose TONEX for your TOGAF Training and Certification.
TOGAF®, an Open Group Standard, is a proven business driven enterprise architecture framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve efficiency without total disruption in the on-going process. Utilizing the ADM, techniques and guidelines, TOGAF has become the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals and the business.
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.
Why choose TONEX for your TOGAF Training and Certification.
TOGAF®, an Open Group Standard, is a proven business driven enterprise architecture framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve efficiency without total disruption in the on-going process. Utilizing the ADM, techniques and guidelines, TOGAF has become the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals and the business.
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
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.
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
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.
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