SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SAMPLER Selected examples of systems engineering in theory and in practice
ARTICLE: 4 ways to boost enterprise resilience with systems thinking
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Many a company was taken by surprise by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and at least some of them that have not made it through the challenges. In an article on the MIT Sloan School of Management website, Beth Stackpole talks about how a systems-thinking approach can help to build such resilience.
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Unlocking the finance through articulating the value of resilience through the whole infrastructure lifecycle, to governments and investors Leadership. Our future leaders need to both be resilient, in the face of deep uncertainty, and to lead for resilience, recognizing all the previous points.
Access the article here.
Access the article here.
ARTICLE: Making the right resilience choices for future infrastructure In this article in Infrastructure Intelligence, Seth Schultz and Juliet Mian of The Resilience Shift consider the issues with defining quantifiable metrics for infrastructure resilience and setting boundaries for those who need them. These six aspects are difficult to measure but essential to create the needed shift: •
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The need to overcome fragmented governance across a system, such that all stakeholders are part of the planning, response, recovery, and adaptation cycle. Considering infrastructure for the critical services it provides to the wider system it is a part of, i.e., focusing on outcomes (connectivity) not outputs (a bridge). Taking a broader view of the social, environmental, and physical elements of an infrastructure system, to understand how a change to one part of the system can impact other parts. Connecting stakeholders and guidance across different sectors, towards a joinedup approach across the infrastructure system-of-systems rather than multiple siloed approaches.
ARTICLE: New Design Approaches For Automotive “The ultimate goal is to create an executable specification based on industry-accepted standards, with enough flexibility to be able to customize that spec for different customers. This is a difficult engineering challenge, and by most accounts, automotive is now at the top of the list for complex electronic design.” In this extended article, Ann Steffora Mutschler, executive editor of Semiconductor Engineering, discusses the growth in the use of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Based Requirements Engineering (MBRE) in the automotive industry. “Will we get ever to the point that you just put a specification in the black box and out comes the system and chip?” is the question asked by Kurt Shuler, vice president of marketing at Arteris IP. The answer is concluded to be: Probably not. It is clear that trying to define everything up front is not going to deliver the best solution, but finding the balance between the appropriate level of detail required at each level and the time spent on these models will deliver much better results. Access the article here.
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