While systems engineering continues to emphasize model-based systems engineering (MBSE), the greater community is shifting its focus to bigger issues – from model-based engineering to digital thread and now to digital engineering. Some view these simply as alternate labels for the same concept, but the scope is truly different. And …

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been asked about methods to capture and track important or essential performance parameters, generally referred to as “technical measures” in a model-based environment. This post is dedicated to understanding technical measures and how to identify them in the operational and system architecture. In …

Setting up a new home office for my Vitech work in January of this year involved the cleaning out of a basement bedroom that had become a repository for long-forgotten items that surely would of course be needed some day. It was a shame I had let it get to …

One thing I have learned in my career as a systems engineer is I still have aha moments. And when students of mine have aha moments, I am equally gratified. I recently taught a class on model-based systems engineering that includes hands-on MBSE exercises in a tool environment. In the …