WHAT DO I UNDERSTAND FROM SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS ENGINEERS? (Summary)
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Systems engineering is a discipline responsible for
controlling and managing very complex systems that have many components such
that each have some relationship with the other.
What I remember/learned about it after Systems Engineering
course: Systems Engineering is the field that saves human lives. Systems
engineering brings us the chance to do the right thing right. Cost, Performance
and Schedule are not the only requirements to be successful in a project.
Systems Engineering brings Human factor added to these 3 factors. No program
can be successful without appropriately qualified people.
Systems engineering approaches each problem as an
abstraction. Abstraction means complexity and to be successful complexity
should be reduced into digestible chunks for people. Systems engineering
decomposes the complex systems by using models.
Systems engineering approaches/takes projects as a system and try to see the whole system.
SYSTEMS ENGINEERS;
Systems Engineers have many jobs to do :
- Design
COMPLEX systems
- Operate
& manage these systems
- They
test systems once the components have been assembled in order to be sure
the system as a whole performs effectively and efficiently as a unit.
Systems Engineers have some basic principles. They always
ask the question “Why?” .
“Right thing right” is gained by focusing on the
requirements. Systems engineers spend most of their time on defining and
understanding the requirements during a project. They use planning effectively
to deal with the complex systems successfully. They use organization to reduce
complexity into small parts which can be solved by human capabilities.
Systems engineers use diagrams, charts or any visual methods
to visualize the systems.
They work to combine the efforts of different people
together to bring out a single complex product ( system).
Systems engineers are the joint engineers who make all
disciplines (all other engineers) to work together in coordination. They are
above all disciplines, can see the whole picture at once unlike all other
engineers see only one part of the system.
Ugur Erdemir
Logistics & Acquisition Professional, Industrial Engineer
ugurerdemir1975@hotmail.com
See also:
Conract risk Allocation
http://logisticsandacquisition.blogspot.com/2013/04/risk-allocation-and-motivation.html
Buzan Study Method
http://logisticsandacquisition.blogspot.com/2013/04/buzan-study-method-what-is-it-my.html
See also:
Conract risk Allocation
http://logisticsandacquisition.blogspot.com/2013/04/risk-allocation-and-motivation.html
Buzan Study Method
http://logisticsandacquisition.blogspot.com/2013/04/buzan-study-method-what-is-it-my.html
Excess Inventory
http://excessinventoryanddisposal.blogspot.com/
http://excessinventoryanddisposal.blogspot.com/
References: 1. http://www.standards.its.dot.gov/learn_SysEng.asp
