Systems Engineering and Its Application to Industrial Product Development

Description

Mastering the complexity of innovative systems is a challenging aspect of design and product development. Only a systematic approach can help to embed an increasing degree of smartness in devices and machines, allowing them to adapt to variable conditions or harsh environments. At the same time, customer needs have to be identified before they can be translated into consistent technical requirements. The field of Systems Engineering provides a method, a process, suitable tools and languages to cope with the complexity of various systems such as motor vehicles, robots, railways systems, aircraft and spacecraft, smart manufacturing systems, microsystems, and bio-inspired devices. It makes it possible to trace the entire product lifecycle, by ensuring that requirements are matched to system functions, and functions are matched to components and subsystems, down to the level of assembled parts. This book discusses how Systems Engineering can be suitably deployed and how its benefits are currently being exploited by Product Lifecycle Management. It investigates the fundamentals of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) through a general introduction to this topic and provides two examples of real systems, helping readers understand how these tools are used. The first, which involves the mechatronics of industrial systems, serves to reinforce the main content of the book, while the second describes an industrial implementation of the MBSE tools in the context of developing the on-board systems of a commercial aircraft. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 1-5 The Systems Engineering (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 7-23 The Methodology of Systems Engineering (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 25-68 Systems, Customer Needs and Requirements (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 69-113 Operational Analysis (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 115-145 Functional Analysis (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 147-191 Logical Analysis (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 193-223 Physical Analysis (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 225-270 Heterogeneous Simulation (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 271-287 System Verification and Validation (V&V) (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 289-325 Systems Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 327-341 Conclusion (Eugenio Brusa, Ambra Calà, Davide Ferretto)....Pages 343-346 Back Matter ....Pages 347-353