Maps or Itineraries? A Systems Engineering Insight from Ancient Navigators

IF 1 4区 工程技术 Q4 INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION
Insight Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI:10.1002/inst.12497
William D. Schindel
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Abstract

Processes and procedures are the heart of current descriptions of systems engineering. The “vee diagram,” ISO 15288, the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, and enterprise-specific business process models focus attention on process and procedure. However, there is a non-procedural way to view systems engineering. This approach is to describe the configuration space “navigated” by systems engineering, and what is meant by system trajectories in that space, traveled during system life cycles. This sounds abstract because we have lacked explicit maps necessary to describe this configuration space. We understand concrete steps of a procedure, so we focus there. But where do these steps take us? And what does “where” mean in this context? Clues are found in recent discoveries about ancient navigation, as well as later development of mathematics and physics. This paper, part I of a case for stronger model-based systems engineering (MBSE) semantics, focuses on the underlying configuration space inherent to systems.

地图还是路线?古代航海家对系统工程的启示
流程和程序是当前系统工程描述的核心。vee图"、ISO 15288、INCOSE《系统工程手册》以及企业特定的业务流程模型都将注意力集中在流程和程序上。然而,还有一种非程序化的方法来看待系统工程。这种方法是描述系统工程 "导航 "的配置空间,以及系统生命周期中系统在该空间中的运行轨迹。这听起来很抽象,因为我们缺乏描述这一配置空间所需的明确地图。我们了解程序的具体步骤,所以我们把重点放在这里。但这些步骤会把我们带到哪里呢?在这种情况下,"哪里 "又意味着什么呢?我们可以从最近关于古代航海的发现以及后来数学和物理学的发展中找到线索。本文是加强基于模型的系统工程(MBSE)语义案例的第一部分,重点关注系统固有的底层配置空间。
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Insight
Insight 工程技术-材料科学:表征与测试
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1.50
自引率
9.10%
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0
审稿时长
2.8 months
期刊介绍: Official Journal of The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing - includes original research and devlopment papers, technical and scientific reviews and case studies in the fields of NDT and CM.
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