When you are developing a system design, have you ever asked yourself how it will be implemented? As systems engineers, we must always keep in the back of our minds that someone will have to print or manufacture parts, assemble and integrate subsystems, and eventually maintain the system. We can …

Whether we realize it or not, our brains will consider behavior when contemplating requirements. How, then, can we formalize this process? How do we ensure we address the functionality of our systems as we consider requirements? As systems engineers, we develop a mental model of requirements analysis based on the …

Our world is standing in the midst of what amounts to its fourth industrial revolution. It is rapidly unfolding and begs for a way to manage its impact. The systems mindset holds the promise of shaping the course of the new revolution in a productive way. The first industrial revolution …

In my blog post last month, Understanding Your System, I discussed the importance of the system context and system decomposition when defining the physical design of a system. This month I would like to additionally emphasize the role of functional analysis to define the functional design and explain how MBSE …