Systems Engineering

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It refers to a specific or discrete action that is necessary to achieve a given objective

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Function

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The first and most important phase of the system design and development process

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Conceptual Design Phase

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It is one that does not interact significantly with its environment

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Closed System

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It is a fundamental principle that the whole entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the entity as a whole, not to its parts

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Emergence

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Everything that remain outside the boundaries of the system

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Environment

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This model starts with user needs on the upper left and ends with a user-validated system on the upper right

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VEE Process Model

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It helps to ensure the elements of the system fit together to accomplish the objectives of the whole, and ultimately satisfy the needs of the customers and other stakeholders who will acquire and use the system

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Systems Engineer

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The degree to which a system’s design or code is difficult to understand becuase of numerous components or relationships among components

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Complexity

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Introduced by Royce in 1970, initially for software development

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Waterfall Process Model

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These are the parts of a system

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Components

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A structured process or mechanism for determining customer requirements and translating them into relevant technical requirements that each functional area and organization level can understand and act upon

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Quality Function Deployment

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It should performed with the objective of translating abroadly defined “want” into a more specific system-level requirement

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Need/Need Analysis

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An iterative process model that focuses on prototyping and a risk driven approach for development of products or system

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Spiral Process Model

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Systems from the greek word systema, meaning an ________

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Organized Whole

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A system component that are the parts that perform the processing

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Operating Components

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It is also known as advance development

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Preliminary Design Phase

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This is the characteristics of design and installation that reflects the ease, accuracy, safety and economy of performing maintenance actions

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Maintainability

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It is a combination of interacting elements organized to achieve one or more stated purposes

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Engineered System

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A system operational requirement that focuses on the anticipated time that the system will be in operational use

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Operational Life Cycle

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20. The system’s engineering process generally commences with tha identification of a ________ or _________ for something based on some real deficiency

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Want, Desire

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21. May include a combination of contractor and customer(or ultimate user) activities

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Utilization Phase

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They introduces “Vee” Process Model

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Forsberg and Mooz

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It is a systematic approach to creating a system design that simultaneously considers all phases of the life cycle, from conception through disposal

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Concurrent Engineering

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It is defined as “the probability that a system or product will perform in a satisfactory manner for a given period of time used under specified operating conditions

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Realibility

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A reliability allocation technique that is a straightforward method that assigns equal reliability requirements for all subsystems based on the system requirements

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Equal Apportionment Technique

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Analysis that should be performed with the objective of translating a broadly defined “want” into a more specific system-level requirement

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Need Analysis

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A system which human-beings have intervened through components, attributes, and relaionships

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Human-Made System

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This technique is a straightforward method that assigns equal reliability requirements for all subsystem based on system requirements

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Equal Apportionment Technique

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A structured process or mechanism for determining customer requirements and translating them into relevant technical requirements that each functional area and organization level can understand and act upon

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Quality Function Demand

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May include both the customer and the producer

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Acquisition Phase

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At whatever level in the hierarchy, consist of an components, attributes, and relationships needed to accomplish one or more objectives

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Total System

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Material, Energy and Information that pass from the system to the environment

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Output

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An Iterative process of breaking requirements down from the system level to the subsystem, and as far down the hierarchical structure as necessary to identify input design criteria and/or constraints for the various elements of the system

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Functional Analysis

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34. A systems that are treated as a special form of engineered system

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SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS