For senior-level undergraduate and first and second year graduate systems engineering and related courses. A total life-cycle approach to systems and their analysis. This practical introduction to systems engineering and analysis provides the concepts, methodologies, models, and tools needed to understand and implement a total life-cycle approach to systems and their analysis. The authors focus first on the process of bringing systems into being-beginning with the identification of a need and extending that need through requirements determination, functional analysis and allocation, design synthesis, evaluation, and validation, operation and support, phase-out, and disposal. Next, the authors discuss the improvement of systems currently in being, showing that by employing the iterative process of analysis, evaluation, feedback, and modification, most systems in existence can be improved in their affordability, effectiveness, and stakeholder satisfaction.
1. Systems Science and Engineering
2. Bringing Systems Into Being
3. Conceptual System Design
4. Preliminary System Design
5. Detail Design and Development
6. System Test, Evaluation, and Validation
7. Alternatives and Models in Decision Making
8. Models for Economic Evaluation
9. Optimization in Design and Operations
10. Queuing Theory and Analysis
11. Control Concepts and Methods
12. Design for Reliability
13. Design for Maintainability
14. Design for Usability (Human Factors)
15. Design for Logistices and Supportability
16. Design for Producibility, Disposability, and Sustainability
17. Design for Affordability(Life-cycle Costing)
18. Systems Engineerin g Planning and Organization
19. Program Management, Control, and Evaluation
Appendix: Functional Analysis
Appendix: Design and Management Checklists
Appendix: Provability Theory and Analysis
Appendix: Probability and Statistical Tables
Appendix: Interest Factor Tables
Appendix: Finite Queuing Tables
Index
