OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (OESE): STATE OF ART

Operational Excellence (EO) is increasingly present in scientific and managerial news. Increasing competition, increasingly uncertain events, demands customers and society increasingly pressing, the evolution of systems towards cyber physics systems, push organizations to adapt their engineering methodologies. Excellence operational (EO) is one of the answers proposed by the scientific literature to make engineering organizations more flexible, more responsive, more efficient and therefore more competitive. In this article, we share a state of the art of operational excellence (EO) in system engineering (IS) through its most modern methodologies: the Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Agility (A) with an operational approach including social and societal responsibility via the Quality-Cost-Delay-Security-Environment (QCDSE). We finish by sharing four assumptions that will serve as a basis, in our future contribution, to propose a synergy solution to implement an Operational Excellence approach in systems engineering organizations.

Social Capital From Professional Engineering Organizations and the Persistence of Women and Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates

Professional engineering organizations (PEOs) have the potential to provide women and underrepresented and minoritized (URM) students with social capital (i.e., resources gained from relationships) that aids their persistence in their engineering undergraduate programs and into the workforce. We hypothesize that women and URM students engineering students who participate in PEOs are more likely to persist in their engineering major and that PEOs contribute to their persistence by providing them access to insider information that supports their persistence. Each year for five years we administered surveys with closed- and open-ended items to examine the association between participating in PEOs and the persistence of a cohort of engineering majors from 11 diverse universities. We used logistic regression and thematic analysis to analyze the data. URM students who participated in PEOs and other engineering related activities were more likely to persist to the second year than URM students who did not (adjusted odds ratio = 2.18, CI: 1.09, 4.37). Students reported that PEOs contributed to their persistence by enabling them to network, reduce gender and race/ethnic isolation, and access professional resources. URM students should be encouraged to participate in PEOs beginning in their first year to increase their integration in their major, which we have found to increase their persistence.

Organizational and Technical Support for Remote Work of Employees in the Conditions of Industrial Production Diversification

The article is devoted to the analysis of a very relevant topic at present: the process of transferring employees (employees) of an organization (company, firm, Department etc.) to a remote (remote) mode of operation, and thus creating a so-called virtual office. For the most part, the translation algorithm and organizational and technical support of the virtual office creation process are typical (universal). However, there is certain specificity in the organization and implementation of this process in relation to engineering organizations and high-tech industrial enterprises, due to the peculiarities of their activities in modern conditions of diversification of industrial production at the enterprises of the defense-industrial complex.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN MARITIME SHIPPING REGISTER REQUIREMENTS AND THE RUSSIAN RIVER REGISTER REQUIREMENTS FOR COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS

Comparative analysis results applicable the requirements of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Rules and Russian River Register Rules to structural fire protection (combustible materials) of river-sea-going ships are presented. The study purpose is to compare the safety standard levels laid down in the Rules of these classification societies for river-sea-going ships operating in similar areas and navigation conditions. As a research method, we used a point-by-point analysis of the requirements and approaches of these classification societies, as well as international and national regulatory documents on the basis of which they were developed. It is shown that the approach to classifying materials based on their test results, given in the rules of the River and Sea Registers, is generally the same, but there are fundamental differences in methods of testing materials and criteria for evaluating their results (combustibility tests, flame spreading, flammability, combustion products toxicity, smoke-forming capacity). Comparative analysis results are presented and directions for improving and harmonizing the regulatory and technical framework for mixed navigation vessels in relation to methods of testing materials and criteria for evaluating their results are outlined. The information presented in this article can be used for developing the Russian River Register Rules requirements, and also by design engineering organizations for developing technical documentation (analysis of compliance with the Rules requirements) necessary for a vessel transfer into River or Sea Registers classes.