The Generalist Specialty, Part 2

The new machine model of the universe brought the Enlightenment to a reductionist point of view seeking causation and explanation at the “parts” level. Increasingly it was thought that the true explanation for the operation of natural systems lay in the understanding of the characteristics and the operation of their …

The Transition between CORE™ and GENESYS™

Should I transition to GENESYS?  That’s a question I am sure a lot of system engineering managers using CORE are asking themselves.  It’s not an easy question to answer and I suggest you need to look at more than the individual tool capabilities. As a team manager, consider the organizational …

The Generalist Specialty, Part 1

For a number of years there has been a growing shortage of primary care physicians. This shortage has caused growing concern about the cause of the decreasing numbers of young physicians entering the primary care sectors of their profession. In the quest to answer the “Why?” question, a good deal …

The Future of Fully Connected MBSE

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) seeks to reduce rework and errors through the use of a central model that is accessible to all those involved in the engineering process. In traditional document-centric systems engineering, documents are the repository of information. The use of information requires the movement of information between documents, …