Last month, we explored Vitech’s CSDL, providing an overview of the modeling language and a hypothetical pathway for constructing a system. We reinforced these concepts with a real-world example, though limited to a few levels of decomposition.  Over the past two weeks, we shifted focus to Vitech’s STRATA methodology, demonstrating how it ensures …

Milestones are great times to stop and acknowledge where you’ve been and where you’re going. This past week, on Tuesday, August 13th, Vitech celebrated 27 years of being in business. We’re more than a little proud of all we’ve accomplished in our first little-more-than-a-quarter century, and are looking forward to …

Photo Caption: David Long (right) is presented with a plaque honoring him as an INCOSE Fellow by Garry Roedler at a plenary session of INCOSE’s International Symposium in Orlando on July 23, 2019. For “advancing the state of systems engineering practice through methods, processes and tools, especially in support of …

All too often, even experienced systems engineers confuse the systems metamodel with the individual system model. The former provides the framework within which to build the latter. They are not the same. The confusion is expressed in several ways. Sometimes it arises in discussing the metamodel. The metamodel might be …