Название: Applied Systems Engineering, Second Edition
Автор: Ian Faulconbridge, Michael Ryan
Издательство: Artech House
Год: 2026
Страниц: 453
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Applied Systems Engineering, Second Edition provides a practical, life cycle-based framework for designing, developing, and delivering complex technical systems. Encompassing aerospace, transportation, data infrastructure, and industrial applications it explains how stakeholder and business requirements are transformed into coherent, verifiable architectures that meet performance, cost, and scheduling objectives.

Drawing on the complete system life cycle, this timely edition details the integration of stakeholder requirements, functional and physical architectures, design, development, verification and validation and management strategies across the conceptual, preliminary, detailed design and construction/production phases. It provides the foundations of modern systems engineering management, linking life cycle planning, configuration control, and performance assessment with practical tools such as requirement traceability, system modeling, and risk-based decision making. Through disciplined, life cycle-based approaches, practitioners learn to anticipate integration challenges and apply processes that prevent costly overruns and performance shortfalls. Later chapters expand this foundation to include contemporary development methodologies like waterfall, incremental, evolutionary, spiral, and Agile, detailing their implications for engineering management, assurance, and logistics.

This book provides a basic but complete coverage of the discipline known as systems engineering. We offer a framework encapsulating the entire systems engineering discipline, clearly showing where the multitude of associated activities fits within the overall effort, providing an ideal vehicle for understanding the complicated nature of the discipline. We take a top-down approach that introduces the philosophical aspects of the discipline and provides a framework within which the reader can assimilate the associated activities. Without such a reference, the practitioner is left to ponder the plethora of terms, standards, and practices that have been developed independently and often still lack cohesion, particularly in nomenclature and emphasis.

Combining philosophical insight with hands-on techniques, this essential reference provides project managers, systems engineers, quality and logistics professionals, and advanced students with a blueprint for reducing risk, controlling complexity, and achieving performance, cost, and schedule objectives across the entire system life cycle of large-scale engineering systems.