Systems Engineering and Its Application to Industrial Product Development, 1st ed. 2018 Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Series, Vol. 134

Mastering the complexity of innovative systems is a challenging aspect of design and product development. Only a systematic approach can help to embed an increasing degree of smartness in devices and machines, allowing them to adapt to variable conditions or harsh environments. At the same time, customer needs have to be identified before they can be translated into consistent technical requirements. The field of Systems Engineering provides a method, a process, suitable tools and languages to cope with the complexity of various systems such as motor vehicles, robots, railways systems, aircraft and spacecraft, smart manufacturing systems, microsystems, and bio-inspired devices. It makes it possible to trace the entire product lifecycle, by ensuring that requirements are matched to system functions, and functions are matched to components and subsystems, down to the level of assembled parts.

Offers a preliminary roadmap to the fundamentals of MBSE as applied to Material and Industrial Product Development

Presents the state of art of currently available methodologies and tools, and outlines the current demands of industry in this field

Discusses the potential offered by combining functional and numerical models by using the deicing system as a critical subsystem of the whole aircraft

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras