Generic Systems Engineering: A Methodical Approach to Complexity Management

✍ Scribed by Nadine Schlüter

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The 3rd edition is dedicated to the increased requirements for sustainability and picks up on the higher dynamics as a result of agile system development, which is widespread today. The application of the methods to technical systems is also extended to include socio-technical systems.

The work provides a historical outline of development trends in systems engineering (SE) up to the present. Included is a systematic examination of the various models and procedural concepts of SE. Based on this, the Generic Systems Engineering (GSE) is developed, consisting of a new meta-model, which can be combined with a project management-integrated process concept in a problem-solving-oriented manner and can be permanently updated or supplemented. Eight test examples show possible fields of application of the GSE, which range from virtual product development to field data feedback into it. Furthermore, examples for the transfer of GSE to socio-technical systems, i.e. companies and companynetworks, are presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the 3rd edition
Preface to the 2nd edition
Preface to the 1st edition
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
References
2 Systems Engineering (SE)—Old Thinking in a New Guise
2.1 SE as a Scientific Discipline
2.2 Systems Thinking as an Opportunity for Complexity Management in the Past
2.3 The New Dimensions of Complexity and Their Requirements for SE
2.4 The Evolution of SE
2.4.1 Universal SE Concepts
2.4.2 Discipline-Specific Approaches to SE
2.4.3 Comparative Consideration of Universal and Special SE Approaches
2.5 SE and Possibilities of its Reformability
References
3 Generic Systems Engineering—An Approach to Mastering Complexity in a New Dimension
3.1 The Synergy between the Thinking Model and the Procedural Concept—A Necessary Condition in GSE
3.2 The Demands on the Thinking Model of the GSE
3.3 The Possibilities of Restoring a General Procedural Concept within the Framework of the GSE
3.4 The First Draft of a GSE and Ideas for Its Further Development
References
4 System Modeling in the GSE Approach
4.1 Derivation of the Views for System Modeling
4.2 Derivation of the Description Possibilities of the Interrelationships in and Between the Views in System Modeling
4.3 General Description of Systems with the Metamodel (e-)DeCoDe
4.4 Possible Sequence of Steps for Creating the GSE Thinking Model for Technical Systems with DeCoDe
4.5 Possible Sequence of Steps for Creating the GSE Thinking Model for Sociotechnical Systems with e-DeCoDe
4.6 The Advantages and Disadvantages of System Modeling in the GSE Approach
References
5 The Modules of the GSE Procedural Concept—Mastering Complexity Using Simple Rules
5.1 The GSE Analysis Module
5.2 The GSE Goal Formation Module
5.3 The GSE Design Module
5.4 The GSE Project Management Module
5.5 The Interaction of the Modules of the GSE Procedural Concept and the Consequences for System Modeling
5.6 Summary of the Modules of the GSE Procedural Concept
References
6 Case Studies—Managing New Dimensions of Complexity With GSE
6.1 Requirement Update in Product Development
6.2 Development of Mechatronic Systems
6.3 Reliability Considerations of Mechatronic Systems Over the Product Life Cycle
6.4 Failure Identification in Critical Usage Processes by BIELEFELD
6.4.1 MemogaFa—Methodology for a Model-Based and Holistic Failure Analysis
6.4.2 Validation of the Methodology
6.4.3 Conclusion and Outlook
6.5 Model-based Field Data Feedback into Product Development of MAMROT
6.5.1 Application of GSE Using the Example of Model-Based Field Data Feedback
6.5.2 Insights from the Newly Developed Method of Field Data Feedback for the GSE
6.6 Failure Cause Search and Solution Algorithm by HEINRICHSMEYER
6.6.1 Concept of the Failure Cause Search and Solution Algorithm
6.6.2 Failure Cause Localization
6.6.3 Theoretical Implementation
6.6.4 Practical Implementation
6.6.5 Validation of Implementation
6.6.6 Discussion
6.6.7 Outlook
6.7 Early Stages of Customer-Integrated Product Development of Industrial Plants
6.7.1 Application of the GSE Approach in the Customer-Integrated Development of an Emergency Release for Industrial Plants
6.7.2 Risks and Opportunities of GSE in the Early Stages of Product Development
6.8 Requirement-Appropriate Organizational Development of MISTLER
References
7 The New Guise of SE—GSE as a Solution Variant
References