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The System Concept and Its Application to Engineering (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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The System Concept and Its Application to Engineering (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Systems engineering is a mandatory approach in some industries, and
is gaining wider acceptance for complex projects in general.
However, under the imperative of delivering these projects on time
and within budget, the focus has been mainly on the management
aspects, with less attention to improving the core engineering
activity - design. This book addresses the application of the
system concept to design in several ways: by developing a deeper
understanding of the system concept, by defining design and its
characteristics within the process of engineering, and by applying
the system concept to the early stage of design, where it has the
greatest impact. A central theme of the book is that the purpose of
engineering is to be useful in meeting the needs of society, and
that therefore the ultimate measure of the benefit of applying the
system concept should be the extent to which it advances the
achievement of that purpose. Consequently, any consistent, top-down
development of the functionality required of a solution to the
problem of meeting a defined need must proceed from such a measure,
and it is agued that a generalised form of Return on Investment is
an appropriate measure. A theoretical framework for the development
of functionality based on this measure and utilising the system
concept is presented, together with some examples and practical
guidelines.
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