Engineering Mega-Systems

ISBN: 9781420076660 出版年：2016 页码：256 Stevens, Renee Auerbach Publications

SETTING THE STAGE List of Acronyms Introduction The Trend Toward Large-Scale, Richly Interconnected Systems Why This Book? Organization of the Book Context and Trends Changing the Strategic Environment in the U.S. Department of Defense The Imperative to Share Information across Agencies Enabling Conditions Institutional Trends: Enterprisewide, Top-Down Perspective Implications for Systems and Programs A Look Ahead CONCEPTS AND FRAMEWORKS Mega-System Concepts What Is a System? Mega-Systems Summary A Framework for Exploring Mega-Systems Basis for the Framework Elements of the Basic Framework Tame versus Wicked Problems Engineering and Acquiring Mega-Systems What Is Systems Engineering? Mega-System Challenges for Systems Engineers Troubled Large-Scale Systems Levels of Systems Engineering Enterprise Systems Engineering Profiler CASE STUDIES IN ENGINEERING MEGA-SYSTEMS Introduction to Mega-System Case Studies A Note about Case Studies Approach to Mega-System Case Studies Single Integrated Air Picture Motivation: Moving from Independent Systems to a Theater-Wide Integrated Capability Standing up a System Engineering Organization SIAP System Engineering Process Building the IABM Formalizing the SIAP Summary SIAP Mapping to the Systems Engineering Profiler Insights for Engineering Mega-Systems Developing the Electronic Product Code Network Background The Auto-ID Center The Vision: An Internet of Things Concept and Technologies RFID Design Process and Implementation Transition from Research to Commercialization EPC Adoption Summary EPCglobal Network Mapping to the Extended Framework Insights for Engineering Mega-Systems Observations from the Case Studies Case Study Recap Observations THE WAY AHEAD The Way Ahead Emerging Tenets Matching Practice to Circumstances An Emerging View of Systems Engineering as a Continuum of Practice Refining the Engineering Tenets: A Way Ahead An Emerging View of Next-Generation Practice Concluding Thoughts POSTSCRIPT: PROFILING A COMPLEX ACQUISITION PROGRAM Multiple Purposes of the Study Approach Findings The Profile as an "Uncertainty Map" Recommended Practices for Dealing with Uncertainty Conclusion