Knowledge is not enough: What a systems engineer really needs
A successful systems engineer not only brings knowledge, but also experience, wisdom and passion.
Century support part 2: How not to start
This guest article by Carsten Pitz is the second part on the topic of long-term support. In the first part, Carsten describes the development of a documentation system. Although it was not initially conceived as such, it became clear over time that the system would have to be available for decades. Enjoy reading the second part.
Capella and ARCADIA at Thales: Should tool and method be coupled?
A lot has already been reported about Eclipse on these pages, and also about the PolarSys working group, which deals with the development of embedded systems with Eclipse-based tools. Today we are talking about Capella, a tool from the PolarSys toolbox, and a method called ARCADIA. Two things are of interest to the reader here: On the one hand,...
Century Support: Why long-term care is a real problem
Long-term care is particularly problematic in aviation, where a product has to be maintained for up to 100 years: Century support!
The levels of complexity - and what they cost us
The Systems Engineering Day 2016 has already been reported on here several times. This time, the results of a participant survey on the topic of "complexity" are published in a guest article. The survey was conducted by Odego, a Hamburg-based company that specializes in modularity and variant management. In the following, Dr. Sandra Eilmus, Managing Director of Odego, describes where the costs...
Extreme Manufacturing: How to design, build and sell a roadworthy car in seven days
The concept of extreme manufacturing developed by Joe Justice makes it possible to drastically reduce the duration of iteration loops.
How you can prevent your products from becoming obsolete tomorrow
We live in incredibly fast-moving times. How can we ensure that today's hot product isn't completely outdated the next day? There are plenty of examples of this: tablets and 3D televisions are already on the wane again. Who knows if VR glasses and 3D printers won't be out tomorrow? As a developer...
Interview with Joachim Schlosser
Dr. Joachim Schlosser leads a team of computer scientists and engineers at Elektrobit Automotive who advise car manufacturers and automotive suppliers on topics such as agile development methods, functional safety and autonomous driving. He is also known for his blog, his work for MathWorks (MATLAB/Simulink) in teaching and his textbook on LaTeX. Between the years, I had a conversation about modeling in...
Certification - is it worth it?
Certificates cost time and money. And some people ask themselves whether the effort is worth it - whether for a better job or for themselves. And if you approach certification incorrectly, you may end up with little more than hot air. The right way to approach certification is explained...
How systems thinking has almost halved the death rate in surgery
Atul Gawande (pictured) is an American surgeon who posed the following question: To provide the best healthcare, do we need the most expensive experts, drugs, procedures, equipment, and so on? Using systems thinking, he came to the answer: No! Because the most expensive individual parts do not guarantee that the result is the best. What if we had a car...
Will Daimler manage the introduction of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)?
At ReConf 2016, Siegmar Haasis, then CIO at Daimler, reported on how the Group envisions MBSE.
New systems engineering online course from MIT, NASA and Boeing
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), my alma mater, will be offering an online course on systems engineering this summer. MIT is collaborating with Boeing and NASA for this course. I find this exciting because systems engineering education is a much-discussed topic at the moment. A good online course makes it possible to...
