An analysis of barriers for the introduction of Systems Engineering

Bretz, Lukas; Kaiser, Lydia; Dumitrescu, Roman

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2019.04.178

Cited by 13 publications

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“…4,11,12,14 Different perspectives on adoption strategy were also reflected in the literature. For the adoption of SE, Bretz et al 13 stated that SE should be introduced simultaneously across an organization. If SE is introduced from one department, there is a risk of not considering all stakeholder's needs and missing support from other departments.…”

Section: Adoption/implementation Strategy and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

MBSE adoption experiences in organizations: Lessons learned

Henderson,

McDermott,

Salado

2023

Systems Engineering

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Lessons learned through MBSE adoption efforts is one of the key ways of communicating best practices and recommendations for MBSE. This study compiles lessons learned from published case studies and practitioner interviews. Lessons are summarized into categories such as adoption strategy, modeling practices, and communication. This paper provides a source for future adopters of MBSE to review best practices and recommendations from a multitude of different experiences. This should improve the adoption and implementation of MBSE.

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Section: Adoption/implementation Strategy and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

MBSE adoption experiences in organizations: Lessons learned

Henderson,

McDermott,

Salado

2023

Systems Engineering

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“…Systems Engineering (SE) is a holistic interdisciplinary approach for successful development and realization of systems [2,5]. Thereby, SE involves processes, methods and tools which focusses either single aspects, like architecture definition, or overall challenges, like comprehensive system understanding or interdisciplinary communication [2,6]. MBSE extends SE by capturing engineering information, like interface control and system description documents, within an overall system model [5] in order to ensure data consistency and traceability along the complete product life cycle.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With this paper and the corresponding simulation game mainly processual and educational barriers will be addressed. Key factor as well as big hurdle, due to widely established discipline and component oriented thinking, for successful SE implementation is holistic systems thinking [2,6]. A second pivotal element for successful implementation of MBSE is an appropriate PMT framework, 50th Annual Conference in September 2022 based on the PMTE paradigm pyramid introduced by Martin [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

Development and application of simulation games to introduce model-based systems engineering

Schumacher¹,

Ammersdörfer²,

Inkermann³

2022

Towards a New Future in Engineering Education, New Scenarios That European Alliances of Tech Universities Open Up

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Model-based Systems Engineering aims at increasing consistency of information in complex engineering processes that involve different engineering domains. A major challenge when introducing Model-based Systems Engineering is to highlight the interactions of different process activities, like requirement definition, specific methods and available tools as well as roles. These interactions have to be demonstrated to members of the engineering team in order to induce awareness for potential hurdles within the implementation process and to increase acceptance for required changes of processes, methods and tools. Simulation games present a promising approach to generate awareness as well as the needed expertise for successful implementation of Model-based Systems Engineering, in both teaching of students and training of experienced engineers. In this contribution a development process and essential aspects for the game design of simulation games are proposed. The structured process and its specific steps are illustrated by the development of the simulation game MbSys.

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“…The introduction of Systems Engineering (SE) and ultimately Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) provides a promising outlook to handle the realisation of increasingly complex multidisciplinary systems efficiently and comprehensively throughout their complete lifecycles (Ramos, et al, 2012). In fact, the most quoted expected benefit in a study conducted by Bretz et al (Bretz, et al, 2019) is the use of SE to orchestrate a multidisciplinary collaborative framework. The automotive industry, by adopting MBSE in the realisation of their complex products, has successfully achieved significant improvements in time to market, cost and quality (D'Ambrosio & Soremekun, 2017).…”

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“…Despite the advantages they present, the introduction of SE and MBSE to industries such as Aerospace, Defence or Automotive has until now faced a multitude of challenges. Traditionally, organisations with complex product systems have had siloed ways of working with departmental goals being prioritised over system level goals (Bretz, et al, 2019). This is not aligned to the SE approach which has holistic thinking at its heart.…”

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Bridging the Gap Between Architects, Engineers and Other Stakeholders in Complex and Multidisciplinary Systems – a Holistic, Inclusive and Interactive Design Approach

Ravindranath

2020

INCOSE International Symp

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Systems Engineering and, in the recent decade, Model‐based Systems Engineering have been widely adopted in the realisation of numerous complex products. The intrinsic multi‐level and multidisciplinary nature of a complex system poses major challenges during the design stage particularly in the communication between stakeholders of the system who often speak different languages and assume different perspectives, for instance, product owners, architects, engineers and domain experts. An integral collaboration environment between domains and across levels is thus key to achieving efficient and high quality designs. This paper presents a holistic, inclusive and interactive design approach to integrate the communication between stakeholders in the design of complex and multidisciplinary systems. Holistic thinking is a fundamental practice in Systems Engineering that ensures the alignment of domain objectives with overall system objectives as the product matures. However, effective deployment of this approach is often hindered by the communication gap between system stakeholders. In this paper, we propose a simplified Systems Engineering framework as the basis to model the system using Object Process Methodology (Dori, 2002). The use of various interactive exploration methods and data visualisation techniques can facilitate an efficient collaborative design that promotes holistic thinking. The proposed approach targets the conceptual design phase, and incorporates valuable design insights that are usually only revealed in the later stages of design as the system is relatively more mature. This allows for the iteration cycle times during the conceptual design phase to be significantly shortened, well‐informed design decisions to be made resulting in a more accurate direction of resources to perform detailed engineering analyses and subsequent design optimisations.

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An analysis of barriers for the introduction of Systems Engineering

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

MBSE adoption experiences in organizations: Lessons learned

MBSE adoption experiences in organizations: Lessons learned

Development and application of simulation games to introduce model-based systems engineering

Bridging the Gap Between Architects, Engineers and Other Stakeholders in Complex and Multidisciplinary Systems – a Holistic, Inclusive and Interactive Design Approach

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