System Synthesis: Product and Process Design

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey O. Grady

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 576
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Unlike most engineers, system engineers focus on the knowledge base needed to develop good systems in a cross-functional fashion rather than deeply on isolated topics. They are often said to be a mile wide and an inch deep in what they do know. System Synthesis: Product and Process Design provides insight into complex problems, focusing on the boundary conditions that exist between the knowledge domains of the specialized engineers populating a program and the product domains related to the product being developed by different teams on a program. Based on the author’s 45 years of experience, the book examines the three activities that must take place in the development of any system between the completion of the requirements work and the verification of work. The author delineates the role of the system engineer in design, material procurement, and manufacturing, clearly describing how to do key tasks such as trade studies and interface integration. He broadens the discussion of the system development process to include the whole space between requirements and verification work, covering product design, procurement, and manufacturing from a system engineer's perspective. Filling the void often found in system engineering books relative to design, procurement, and manufacturing, this book explores integration work as it relates to the three synthesis activities. It discusses integration, optimization, and coordination of program, product, and process design, provides coverage that partitions all interfaces into three subsets, and covers how to manage and technically integrate each. The book defines the primary benefit system engineers bring to the party as their ability to perform integration work, optimizing the design process to achieve goals that others cannot envision.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 20
Preface......Page 28
Acknowledgments......Page 30
Author......Page 32
Acronyms......Page 34
part one: The fundamentals......Page 38
chapter one: Introduction......Page 40
chapter two: System development process overview......Page 54
chapter three: The human basis for integration......Page 70
chapter four: Integration components,spaces, and cells......Page 82
chapter five: The key roles......Page 98
chapter six: Organizational structures......Page 104
chapter seven: Information systems andcommunications......Page 134
part two: Enterprise common process integration......Page 160
chapter eight: Enterprise process requirements definition......Page 162
chapter nine: Enterprise process design......Page 182
chapter ten: Integrated program planning......Page 206
chapter eleven: Transition to implementation......Page 226
chapter twelve: System modeling and requirements identification......Page 238
chapter thirteen: Product entity definition......Page 260
chapter fourteen: Interface definition......Page 280
chapter fifteen: Requirements integration......Page 310
part four: Product design synthesis......Page 328
chapter sixteen: Program execution......Page 330
chapter seventeen: Design modeling and simulation......Page 348
chapter eighteen: Product design decision making......Page 356
chapter nineteen: Product design integrationin an IPPT environment......Page 376
chapter twenty: Preliminary design......Page 388
chapter twenty-one: Detailed design......Page 396
chapter twenty-two: Integration of test and analysis results......Page 408
part five: Specialty engineering methods and models......Page 416
chapter twenty-three: Introduction to specialty engineering and concurrent engineering......Page 418
chapter twenty-four: Reliability......Page 450
chapter twenty-five: Maintainability......Page 460
chapter twenty-six: Availability and RAM integration......Page 464
chapter twenty-eight: Safety, human engineering, security, and environmental impact......Page 480
chapter twenty-nine: Parts, materials, and processes engineering......Page 490
chapter thirty-one: System analysis disciplines......Page 504
part six: Concurrent and post-design process synthesis......Page 510
chapter thirty-two: Procurement and material integration......Page 512
chapter thirty-three: Manufacturing process design and integration......Page 520
chapter thirty-four: Quality influences......Page 532
chapter thirty-five: Post development......Page 536
part seven: Closing......Page 544
chapter thirty-six: Closing......Page 546
Bibliography......Page 560
Index......Page 562
Back Cover......Page 576