Agility Meets Systems Engineering: A Catalogue of Success Factors from Industry Practice

2010 ◽  
pp. 245-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Stelzmann ◽  
Christian Kreiner ◽  
Gunther Spork ◽  
Richard Messnarz ◽  
Frank Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Industry Practice

scholarly journals PROPOSING A SPECIFICATION STRUCTURE FOR COMPLEX PRODUCTS IN MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (MBSE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2481-2490
Author(s):  
Joshua Fahl ◽  
Tobias Hirschter ◽  
Gabriel Wöhrle ◽  
Albert Albers
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Product Complexity ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Complex Products ◽  
Model Based Systems Engineering ◽  
Product Specification

AbstractThis research work presents a methodological support for the specification of complex products. This is achieved by developing a specification structure in a MBSE environment. The new method draws on success factors of complex product specification, principles of MBSE and the explanatory model of PGE – Product Generation Engineering. For evaluation, the method is applied within a student development project. A high applicability and the realization of novel synergies for coping with continuously increasing product complexity is demonstrated.

Transient Root Cause Analysis: A Model-Based Systems Engineering Methodology

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Bailey ◽  
Suzanne Woll ◽  
Rajul Misra ◽  
Kevin Otto
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Root Cause Analysis ◽  
System Level ◽  
Cause Analysis ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Model Based Systems Engineering

This paper presents a model-based systems engineering methodology that can be applied to perform a root cause analysis on transient systems. The methodology extends existing root cause analysis best practice by incorporating system modeling and analysis techniques. The methodology is deployed through a detailed 5-step process to understand, identify, assess, FMEA, and validate potential transient system-level root causes. A transient performance reliability analysis for a dual mode refrigeration system is used to demonstrate how the methodology can be applied. The paper also describes a set of success factors for applying the methodology using a phased approach with a large cross-functional team.

Systems Engineering Success Factors for Capturing Contracts

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement Smartt ◽  
Susan Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Success Factors

scholarly journals Market Success: The Quest for the Objectives and Success Factors of Markets

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Henner Gimpel ◽  
Lisa Hanny ◽  
Marion Ott ◽  
Jonathan Wagner ◽  
Martin Weibelzahl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Electricity Markets ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Market Design ◽  
Essential Tool ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Market Success

AbstractMarkets are an essential tool to coordinate complex systems. Engineering markets requires the consideration of numerous objectives and factors that will eventually determine the market’s success. These objectives and factors are frequently not well defined or elaborated. Hence, this chapter aims to support market design through a perspective on what determines market success. To this end, we review the literature, consider examples of market success and failure, and reflect on our ongoing work regarding future electricity market design. We provide a framework for market objectives and success factors with a focus on electricity markets. The framework could spur the identification of objectives and success factors of markets in other domains, and inform the engineering of future electricity markets.

Automated Ultrasonic Testing Optimizes Integrity Evaluations for Underground Piping Inspections

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graig Cilluffo
Keyword(s):  
Ultrasonic Testing ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Raw Water ◽  
Buried Pipe ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Automated Scanning

This paper will provide an overview of a recent buried piping inspection project leveraging automated ultrasonic testing methods to evaluate internal raw water corrosion at a reliably-operating, nuclear power plant. Discussion of current piping inspection practices for resolving non-planar flaws in raw water piping will be provided, emphasizing inspection performance requirements and a pilot project using automated scanning to optimize inspection value while minimizing field time and costs. Contents include past buried piping integrity inspection scope / method selection, details on techniques and critical success factors for the project relative to integrity needs, lessons learned from field implementation, further experience from subsequent related inspections using automated and manual techniques for comparison, and recommended actions for future integrity assessments and mitigating actions. Results provided clear justification for this new approach above traditional evaluations performed in the past and may represent a best industry practice for buried pipe assessment. While targeting buried piping applications, this method can be applied to many systems / locations vulnerable to corrosion. Guidance on applications, limitations, and areas for improvement are also provided from a project / field perspective.

Abstraction: An alternative neurocognitive account of recognition, prediction, and decision making

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie F. Reyna ◽  
David A. Broniatowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Trace Theory ◽  
Fuzzy Trace Theory ◽  
Abstract Representations ◽  
Technical Systems

Abstract Gilead et al. offer a thoughtful and much-needed treatment of abstraction. However, it fails to build on an extensive literature on abstraction, representational diversity, neurocognition, and psychopathology that provides important constraints and alternative evidence-based conceptions. We draw on conceptions in software engineering, socio-technical systems engineering, and a neurocognitive theory with abstract representations of gist at its core, fuzzy-trace theory.

Analytical Electron Microscopy Characterization of Electric Arc Furnace Dust

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
J. R. Porter ◽  
J. I. Goldstein ◽  
D. B. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Analytical Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electric Arc Furnace ◽  
Electric Arc ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Particle Analysis ◽  
Arc Furnace ◽  
Analytical Electron ◽  
Residual Elements ◽  
Industry Practice

Alloy scrap metal is increasingly being used in electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking and the alloying elements are also found in the resulting dust. A comprehensive characterization program of EAF dust has been undertaken in collaboration with the steel industry and AISI. Samples have been collected from the furnaces of 28 steel companies representing the broad spectrum of industry practice. The program aims to develop an understanding of the mechanisms of formation so that procedures to recover residual elements or recycle the dust can be established. The multi-phase, multi-component dust particles are amenable to individual particle analysis using modern analytical electron microscopy (AEM) methods.Particles are ultrasonically dispersed and subsequently supported on carbon coated formvar films on berylium grids for microscopy. The specimens require careful treatment to prevent agglomeration during preparation which occurs as a result of the combined effects of the fine particle size and particle magnetism. A number of approaches to inhibit agglomeration are currently being evaluated including dispersal in easily sublimable organic solids and size fractioning by centrifugation.

Got the Results, Now What Do You Do?

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Heese
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Culture Transformation ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Air Navigation Services ◽  
Navigation Service

Members of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation have committed themselves to measure and improve safety culture within their organizations by 2013 ( CANSO, 2010 ). This paper attempts to offer support to air navigation service providers that have already implemented a standardized safety culture survey approach, in the process of transforming their safety culture based on existing survey results. First, an overview of the state of the art with respect to safety culture is presented. Then the application of the CANSO safety culture model from theory into practice is demonstrated based on four selected case studies. Finally, a summary of practical examples for driving safety culture change is provided, and critical success factors supporting the safety culture transformation process are discussed.

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