All writing, especially expository writing, is about using a system design. In a pattern familiar to any systems engineer, the writing project begins with high level requirements that will decompose to lower level requirements, a functional map for meeting those requirements and a particular physical implementation. The effective author begins …

The authors of Vitech’s Primer for Model-Based Systems Engineering, David Long and Zane Scott, offer teams that wish to learn about model-based systems engineering a variety of sessions ranging from 2 hours to 3 days. These classes are designed to suit your team’s needs – whether you simply want to …

In a previous post, Three Systems we have discussed the existence of three systems around any system design or improvement project. In every such project we deal with the system we are designing or improving, the context system in which it will live and the system we use to execute …

May I tell you a story about someone I met at this year’s INCOSE conference? This is a true story. I took a few minutes away from the Vitech booth to grab some coffee. As I was trying to get the last few drops of coffee from the urn, a …