Sustainability is one of the topics for which systems engineers are responsible, but which is nevertheless often treated rather stepmotherly and as an afterthought. This will certainly change, as the importance of sustainability will continue to grow. That's why I've been looking for new approaches to sustainability for some time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The paper \"Circular Systems Engineering\" published in the Software and Systems Modeling Journal fills this gap. What exactly this is and how it helps in practice is discussed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I have already discussed sustainability in this blog Treated several times<\/a>. At the TdSE 2023, it was even the Topic of the keynote<\/a>. It is therefore not surprising that research is taking up the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This described paper by Istvan David, Dominik Bork, Gerti Kappel<\/a> deals with an innovative approach to promoting sustainability in technical systems. It introduces the concept of \"circular systems engineering\", a paradigm that transfers the principles of the circular economy to systems engineering. What does this mean in concrete terms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The aim is from Circular Systems Engineering<\/strong> is to maintain the value of a system over all life cycles and thus minimize environmental impact and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/a> support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Maximizing the value of a system is of course nothing new. What is new is that the environmental impact is also explicitly assessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n