By Ron Kratzke, Principal Systems Engineer Recently I have been fielding a number of questions regarding the use LINKs in behavior analysis when running COREsim. As CORE users are well aware, the COREsim modeling capability which allows the system engineer to analyze the behavior of the system. COREsim has an …

Last night at 10 o’clock, I was paying my bills. This isn’t a big deal, except that payday was 10 days ago. You see, I’m the kind of person who needs systems in my life to help me do the things I need to do. My system broke down. The …

Outside of teaching and planned consulting, one of the things I get to do at Vitech is answer the methodology questions that come in each day from our customers. One of the more common questions we’ve been fielding lately is “How does interface development work in CORE 9?” CORE 9 …

In thinking about systems engineering we often set up a framework in which engineering receives a much stronger emphasis than the system aspects of the discipline. The INCOSE definition of systems engineering sets it apart from other engineering disciplines. In part it calls systems engineering, “. . . an engineering …