This is Part III in a series of posts about the history of Vitech. Part I recounts the company’s beginning, in 1992. Part II tells the story of an influential mentor. In Part IV, Vitech enters the new millennium, and a classic infantry carrier vehicle gets a boost. In …

This is Part II in a series of posts about the history of Vitech. Part I recounts the company’s beginnings, in 1992. Part III charts the growth of Vitech as the practice of systems engineering itself expands. In Part IV, Vitech enters the new millennium, and the redesign of a classic …

What do you gain by taking the systems engineering approach? Stop and think about that for a minute. As a systems engineer, you may know the answer, but how do you explain it to other people? In a recent blog post, Vitech principal systems engineer Fran McCafferty wrote about how …

We often talk about understanding the three systems involved in the design space: the system under design, the context system, and the designing system. These three systems are depicted in Figure 1 from Vitech’s MBSE Primer, shown below. As the illustration makes clear, not only does the design team need …