Systems Engineering Course by TONEX

Learn Systems Engineering by Project – The Leading Systems Engineering Course Focusing on Architecture – A Three Day Course

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Course Content

System Analysis and Design Process

• Systems Engineering Requirements Specifications
• Understanding and Defining User Requirements
• Performing a Function Process
• Developing and Selecting a Systems Architecture
• Software and Hardware Architecture
• Defining, Controlling, and Managing Interfaces
• Performing System Design and Development
• Defining and Managing System Performance Parameters
• Defining and Managing Systems Reliability Parameters
• Alternative Models
• Economic Evaluation
• Optimization in Design and Operations
• Queuing Theory and Analysis
• Control Concepts and Techniques
• Reliability and Maintainability
• Usability (Human Factors)
• Supportability (Serviceability)
• Producibility and Disposability
• Design for Affordability (Life-Cycle Cost)

Requirements Engineering

• Capturing Source Requirements
• Define/Derive/Refine Functional/Performance Requirements
• Requirements Allocation and Traceability
• Development of Spec Tree and Specifications
• System and Subsystem Requirements
• System Functional Requirements
• System Operational Requirements
• System Performance Requirements
• Writing Specifications
• Specifications (A spec/B spec, product specifications)
• Test Requirements
• 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)

System Architecture Synthesis

• Define/Refine System Element Alternatives
• Synthesize Multiple System Architectures
• Select Preferred System Architecture/Element Solution
• Define/Refine/Integrate System Physical Configuration
• Case Study and Example
• Design Constraints
• Technical Design Constraints
• High-Speed Navigation
• Practical Design Constraints
• Economic
• Environmental
• Sustainability
• Manufacturability
• Health and Safety
• Software Design16
• Software Functionality
• Test Certification

System Design and Development

• Conceptual Design
• Interface Design (Physical Interfaces, User Interfaces)
• Models and Simulations (includes Prototypes)
• System Concept (candidate concepts and selected concept)
• System Preliminary Design
• System Functional Architecture
• System Physical Architecture
• System/Subsystem Detailed Design (hardware/software)
• Validated System Model (Design Validation)
• Systems Engineering Method (Requirements Analysis, Functional Definition, Physical Definition, and Design Validation)
• System Design Evaluation Criteria and Method (includes Contractor Design Evaluation)
• Test Plans, Procedures, and Methods (Demonstration, Inspection, Testing, and Analysis)
• System Design Reviews

Integrating, Testing, and Evaluating the System

• Test and evaluation plans and procedures
• The Test Construct
• Deriving test objectives and requirements
• Test methods (demonstration, analysis, inspection, and test),
• Developmental T&E
• Operational T&E
• Operational Capability Assessments
• Test maturity
• The “illities”

Integrating, Testing, and Evaluating the System

• 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 requirements)
• Validation (ConOps)
• System Integration
• Standards and Policies

System Verification and Validation (V&V)

• Verification [Sub-system and system level verification]
• The Verification process
• Inputs
• Concept of Operations
• System and Sub-system Requirements
• Design Specifications
• Integration Plan [optional]
• Deployment Strategy [optional]
• Control
• Project Plan/Systems Engineering Management Plan [SEMP]
• Configuration Management Plan
• Verification Enablers
• Verification Process Activities
• System/Software Verification Overview
• System Validation
• Description of System Validation
• System Validation Process
• The system’s owner and stakeholders
• Objective of System Validation
• Assessment of the operational system
• Needs of system’s owner and stakeholders
• Validation process three primary activities
• Planning
• Stakeholder involvement
• The plan
• Validation Master Plan
• Systems Engineering Management Plan [SEMP]
• Validation strategy
• Perform validation
• System acceptance
• Planning & strategy and the assessment results

System Project Management

• System Engineering of Complex Systems
• Effective systems engineering
• Engineering management
• Project definition
• Work breakdown
• Estimating
• Resource planning
• Critical path development
• Scheduling
• Project monitoring and control
• Scope management
• Cost, Schedule, Resources and Tasks
• Cost and Schedule
• Cost/benefit Analysis
• Critical Path Method Analysis
• Market Research Analysis
• Proposal Development (RFPs)
• Resource Allocation
• Task Definitions
• Statement of Work (SOW)
• Project Management Skills in SE
• Project Management skills applied to systems engineering
• Integration Management
• Scope Management
• Quality Management
• Time Management
• Cost Management
• Risk Management
• Human Resource Management
• Procurement Management
• Communications Management
• Systems Engineering Project Management
• Personal Time Management
• Formal Scheduling and Resource Allocation
• Planning, tasking, and controlling complex task structures

Cost, Schedule, Resources and Tasks

• Cost and Schedule
• Cost/benefit Analysis
• Critical Path Method Analysis
• Market Research Analysis
• Proposal Development (RFPs)
• Information for Bid (IFB)
• Resource Allocation
• Task Definitions
• Statement of Work (SOW)
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Communication skills
• Writing, speaking, listening and computer literacy
• Data base design capture
• Simulation based design capture
• Optimizing design capture

Synthesis and creativity skills

• Separating real and preconceived constraints
• Synthesis and abstraction skills
• Creativity can be learned
• Creative problem solving

Team building

• Resources
• Building small teams
• Leadership and formal team building
• Creating hierarchies of product teams

Process skills

• Work breakdown structures/risk management
• Life cycle models
• Planning the life cycle
• Planning product architecture
• Control of the life cycle
• Task controls
• Complex program control systems
• Maturity and capability of a given process
• Integrated product and process team approaches
• Design model verification
• Capability assessment of education efforts to enhance

Overview of Tools used in the Engineering of Complex Systems

• Tools to capture and manage requirements
• MS PROJECT, DOOR, CORE, DSM, QFD
• Definition of problems and alternative solutions
• Analysis of functions and systems
• Requirement development
• Generation of alternatives
• Description and analysis of alternatives
• Documentation and communication
• Decision making
• Specifications

Integration of Specialty Engineering

• Integration of Engineering Specialties Required to Create Systems
• Operational/Engineering Needs
• Hardware Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Human Factors With Emphasis on the Human Computer Interface
• Reliability, Maintainability and Availability
• Integrated Logistics Support
• Quality Assurance
• Safety Engineering and Other Specialties

Reliability Engineering

• New tools in reliability engineering principles
• How operations can improve reliability of their processes
• How to influence improvements in availability
• How someone can assist in reducing process failures
• Calculate the cost of unreliability for making business decisions to attack problems of unreliability
• Reliability tools helpful for providing supporting evidence during root cause analysis failure investigations
• Reliability tools and techniques helpful for understanding failure data
• How to make business decisions, based on the failure data
• Justify making equipment more reliable
• Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Error Control Coding (ECC) Fundamentals
• Related Case Studies and Projects

Technical Quality Assurance

• Quality Procedures
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control
• Process Engineering (Standards) including Risks, Processes, Problems and Standards
• Software Engineering Institute (SEI) System Engineering and Software Development Capability Maturity Models (CMMs)
• ISO 9000 policy
• IEEE standards
• Malcolm Baldrige, SEI CMM®, SEI PMM, ISO 9000 (9001), and SPICE
• Workshops

Working with Bad and Good Requirements

• What are the bad requirements?
• What are the good requirements?
• How do you concert bad requirements to good requirements?

Workshop 1

• Evaluation of good and poor requirements in the project (group project)
• Requirements constructs
• Group presentations and discussions

Workshop 2- Classifying requirements as functional or design

Workshop 3- Working with SOW and Specifications

• Incorporating top level design information into a specification written as requirements
• Develop a clear definition of SOW and Specification
• Analyzing pitfalls when subcontracting out complex designs

Workshop 4 – Writing a functionally oriented specification vs a design oriented specification f

• Analysis of Conops document
• Analysis of Design
• Analysis of Test plans/procedures
• Workshop 5 : Reviews and Technology and Manufacturing Readiness
• Purpose and Structure of Reviews
• Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA)
• Technology Readiness Levels
• Manufacturing Readiness Assessment (MRA)
• Manufacturing Readiness Levels
• Best Practices and Examples of Reviews

Workshop 6: Working with Systems Engineering Process: The ‘V’ Diagram

• Design and Specification
• Manufacture Parts
• Integrate and Test
• Feasibility Study/Concept Exploration
• Acquisition and Supply (Defining Needs)
• Systems Engineering Technical Management
• Concept of Operations (ConOps)
• Requirements Definition Process
• Functional Analysis/Allocation
• System Design
• Conceptual System Design and Development
• Preliminary System Design and Development
• High Level Design: System Architecture Synthesis
• Developing a Systems Architecture
• Detail Design and Development
• Verification and Validation Testing
• Integration
• Technical Reviews and Audits
• Role of Configuration Management
• Risk Management Methodology