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Book : Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft (1997)
Categories: Aerospace • General Systems • Systems Engineering
Tags: aerospace • book • commercial aircraft • development • jackson • system design • systems engineering
Publisher: Ashgate
Author(s): Jackson, Scott
Published: 1997 • ISBN: 0291398464 • 208 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
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The key principle of systems engineering, a process now becoming widely applied in the commercial aircraft industry, is that an aircraft should be considered as a whole and not as a collection of parts. Another principle is that the requirements for the aircraft and its subsystems emanate from a logical set of organized functions and from economic or customer-oriented requirements as well as the regulatory requirements for certification. The resulting process promises to synthesize and validate the design of aircraft which are higher in quality, better meet customer requirements and are most economical to operate.
This book aims to provide the reader with the information to apply the systems engineering process to the design of new aircraft, derivative aircraft and to change–based designs. The principles of this book are applicable to passenger and cargo carrying aircraft and to commuter and business aircraft. It explains the principles of systems engineering in understandable terms, but does not attempt to educate the reader in the details of the process.
Incorporating the latest thinking by FAA and JAA to utilize the systems engineering in the aircraft certification process, the author shows how current guidelines for certification of systems with software are in agreement with its main principles. These in turn can be applied at three levels: the aviation system, the aircraft as a whole and the aircraft subsystem levels.
By providing guidelines for managing a commercial aircraft development using the principles of systems engineering, the book will enable engineers and managers to see the work they do in a new light. Whether developing a new aircraft from scratch or simply modifying a subsystem, they will be assisted to see their product from a functional point of view and thus to develop new vehicles which are better, cheaper and safer than before.
The readership includes the aircraft industry, suppliers and regulatory communities: especially technical, program and procurement managers; systems, design and specialty engineers (human factors, reliability, safety, etc); students of aeronautical and systems engineering and technical management; and government agencies such as FAA and JAA.
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Book : Systems Engineering Guidebook : A Process for Developing Systems and Products (1996)
Categories: General Systems • Systems Engineering
Tags: book • development • lifecycle • martin • process • systems engineering
Publisher: CRC Press
Author(s): Martin, James N.
Published: 1996 • ISBN: 0849378370 • 304 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
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This volume looks at the systems engineering process, its use and its value to the successful implementation of systems projects. The process presented conforms to industry standards on systems engineering, and can be used to support the training of engineers in this process.
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Book : Systems Engineering Planning and Identity (1995)
Categories: Aerospace • Defence • General Systems • Project Management • Standard • Systems Engineering
Tags: book • cdrl • development • grady • lifecycle • management • plan • process • semp • systems engineering • wbs
Publisher: CRC Press
Author(s): Grady, Jeffrey O.
Published: 1995 • ISBN: 084937832X • 400 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Hardback
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This book shows the reader how to write a system engineering management plan (SEMP) that reflects the company’s identity and is appropriate to most customers’ requirements, e.g., MIL-STD-499, ISO 9001, the U.S. Air Force Integrated Management System, and EIA STD 632.The first section of this book provides a brief introduction to the process of developing a SEMP. The remainder contains a source model of a SEMP that is generic in nature. A computer disk is included with the book to provide the SEMP in a form (Microsoft Word) that can be used for the reader’s own plan.
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Book : Systems Engineering: An Approach to Information-Based Design (1996)
Categories: General Systems • Manufacturing • Systems Engineering • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • development • forecast • hazelrigg • lifecycle • modelling • probability • reliability • risk • systems engineering • systems thinking
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Author(s): Hazelrigg, George A.
Published: 1996 • ISBN: 0134613449 • 469 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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A tentative theory and framework for systems engineering, which accounts for all phases in the life cycle of a product or service such that rational choices can be make concerning design options even when uncertainty and risk are high. Proposes a definition for the emerging field.
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Book : Systems Engineering: Coping With Complexity (1998)
Categories: General Systems • Systems Engineering
Tags: arnold • book • brook • development • jackson • lifecycle • stevens • systems engineering
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Author(s): Jackson, Ken • Arnold, Stuart • Stevens, Richard • Brook, Peter
Published: 1998 • ISBN: 0130950858 • 384 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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In an age of shrinking development cycles, it is harder than ever to bring the right product to the market at the right time. Good product - especially complex products - are underpinned by good systems, and systems engineering itself is recognized as the key tool of product development.
This book covers the principles of systems engineering in an easy-to-read format.
The authors have decades of practical industrial experience, and the material is ideal for industrial project teams. For academic courses, the book acts as a component for graduate and undergraduate engineering studies, particularly those on systems engineering.
It covers how to handle requirements, architectural design, integration and verification, starting from the perspective of a simple linear lifecycle. The book then gradually introduces recent work on the complexity of real-world systems, with issues such as multi-level systems development, software within systems, and iterative development. There is also coverage of the impact of systems engineering at the organizational level.
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Book : Systems One : An Introduction to Systems Thinking (1980)
Categories: Systems Thinking
Tags: book • complexity • future systems inc • kauffman • systems thinking
Publisher: Future Systems Inc
Author(s): Kauffman, Draper L.
Published: 1980 • ISBN: 9996280519 • • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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Summary
Draper Kauffman, in ‘Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking’ provides a list of 10 characteristics of, and 22 rules of thumb for the operation of complex systems. Complex System Characteristics
- Self-Stabilizing
- Goal-Seeking
- Program-following
- Self-Reprogramming
- Anticipation
- Environment Modifying
- Self-Replicating
- Self-Maintaining and Repairing
- Self-Reorganizing
- Self-Programming
Complex System Rules of Thumb
- Everything is connected to everything else
- You can never do just one thing
- There is no “away.”
- There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch
- Nature knows best
- If ain’t what you don’t know that hurts you; it’s what you DO know that ain’t so
- “Obvious solutions” do more harm than good
- Look for high leverage points
- Nothing grows forever
- Don’t fight positive feedback; support negative feedback instead
- Don’t try to control the players, just change the rules
- Don’t make rules that can’t be enforced
- There are no simple solutions
- Good intentions are not enough
- High morality depends on accurate prophecy
- If you can’t make people self-sufficient, your aid does more harm than good
- There are no final answers
- Every solution creates new problems
- Loose systems are often better
- Don’t be fooled by system cycles
- Remember the Golden Mean
- Beware the empty compromise
- Don’t be a boiled frog
- Watch our for thresholds
- Competition is often cooperation in disguise
- Bad boundaries make bad governments
- Beware the Tragedy of the Commons
- Foresight always wins in the long run.
This brief primer on ecological and societal systems was to have been the first in a series on systems thinking, but the rest of the series never materialized. Its easy vocabulary, creative cartoons, and use of white space make it a non-threatening place to begin learning about systems.
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Book : Systems Thinking : Managing Chaos and Complexity (1999)
Categories: Business • Soft Systems • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • business • case study • emergeance • organisation • structure • systems thinking
Publisher: Butterworth - Heinemann
Author(s): Gharajedaghi, Jamshid
Published: 1999 • ISBN: 0750671637 • 328 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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In a nutshell, this book is about systems. This book is written for those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that while the whole is becoming more and more interdependent parts display choice and behave independently, and that paradoxes are the most potent challenge of emergent realities.
With a practical orientation and yet a profound theoretical depth, the book offers an operational handle on the whole by introducing an elaborate scheme called iterative design. The iterative design explicitly recognizes that choice is at the heart of human development. Development is the capacity to choose; design is a vehicle for enhancement of choice and holistic thinking. ‘Designers’, in this book, seek to choose rather than predict the future. They try to understand rational, emotional, and cultural dimensions of choice and to produce a design that satisfies a multitude of functions. They learn how to use what they already know and also about how to learn what they need to know.
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Book : Systems Thinking and Modelling: Understanding Change and Complexity (2007)
Categories: System Dynamics • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • cavana • maani • pearson • system dynamics • systems thinking
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Author(s): Cavana, Robert • Maani, Kambiz
Published: 2007 • ISBN: 1877371033 • 288 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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Summary
Systems Thinking, System Dynamics offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of systems thinking and dynamic modelling and its applications. The book provides a self-contained and unique blend of qualitative and quantitative tools, step-by-step methodology, numerous examples and mini-cases, as well as extensive real-life case studies. The content mix and presentation style make the otherwise technical tools of systems thinking and system dynamics accessible to a wide range of people.
This book is intended as a text for students in diverse disciplines including business and management, as well as the social, environmental, health and applied sciences. It also has particular relevance for professionals from all backgrounds interested in understanding the dynamic behaviour of complex systems, change management, complex decision making, group problem solving and organisational learning.
Systems thinking and system dynamics provide a scientific paradigm, a set of tools and computer technology which can help explain the forces and dynamics that underlie change and complexity in business, political, social, economic and environmental systems.
Using systems thinking and system dynamics makes it possible to:
- examine and foresee the consequences of policy and strategic decisions
- implement fundamental solutions to chronic problems
- avoid mistakenly interpreting symptoms as causes
- test assumptions, hypotheses and scenarios
- boost staff morale and improve productivity
- improve the stability and performance of supply chains
- find long-term sustainable solutions and avoid ‘fire-fighting’ behaviour.
The world grows more and more interconnected every day, and yet our institutions of commerce, education, health care, and government, by and large, remain firmly wedded to the reductionistic worldview of the Industrial Age. While more and more leaders in institutions of all sorts realise the importance of systems thinking, few have progressed far in practical application, often daunted by what seems like a steep technical learning curve. This is unfortunate, because it leads to either complete neglect or relegating the tools to technical experts, and fails the urgent need for re-thinking critical issues that must engage us all.
If you believe as I do that enhanced systems intelligence is the mandate for living together in our shrinking world, you will be delighted by Kambiz Maani’s and Bob Cavana’s new book, which takes a big step toward clarifying the underlying philosophy and demystifying the system dynamics method that has long been the core of our work.Peter M. Senge, Society for Organizational Learning, MIT -Boston
New to this Edition
The slight change in the title from Systems Thinking and Modelling – Understanding Change and Complexity to Systems Thinking, System Dynamics – Managing Change and Complexity reflects two things:
- (a) the field ‘System Dynamics’ has been brought directly into the title to reflect the flow in ideas and concepts from systems thinking to system dynamics; and
- (b) the shift from understanding to managing conveys a shift of emphasis towards practice and a broader vision of not only understanding the dynamics of change and complexity, but also to provide tools and support to manage change and complexity.
Two new cases studies related to complex global and business issues and challenges, such as the bird flu pandemics and sustainable fishing practices, have been included.
An update and modernising of one case based on the dynamics of a hypothetical beer distribution system to reflect the rapidly growing field of supply chain management and modelling. Further background on the history and development of systems thinking and system dynamics.
Enhancements to the problem structuring phase of the five-phase systems thinking and modelling methodology based on system dynamics outlined in the book.
Additional technical material to assist readers to better understand the dynamic modelling process.
Further improvements to applications of systems thinking in organisations and an additional learning laboratory, the Brand Management Microworld, in Chapter 6, to aid in managerial learning of systemic and dynamic behaviour of complex systems undergoing change in uncertain environments.
Supplements
This revised edition includes additional material on theory as well as several new cases. The book comes with a CD-ROM that includes the simulation models presented in the book as well as the installation package for a save-disabled version of the iThink software and the installation program for Vensim PLE (Personal Learning Edition).
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Book : Systems Thinking Basics : From Concepts to Causal Loops (1997)
Categories: Systems Thinking
Tags: anderson • book • causal loop • systems thinking • technique • tool
Publisher: Pegasus Communications Inc.
Author(s): Anderson, Virginia
Published: 1997 • ISBN: 1883823129 • 144 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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Systems Thinking Basics is a self-study, skill-building resource designed to introduce you to the power of systems thinking tools. With an emphasis on behavior over time graphs and causal loop diagrams, this workbook guides you step by step through:
- Recognizing systems and understanding the importance of systems thinking
- Interpreting and creating behavior over time graphs and causal loop diagrams
- Applying and practicing systems thinking day-to-day
Each of the book’s six main sections contains a wealth of examples from the business world, as well as learning activities that reinforce concepts and provide you with the opportunity and space to practice. An array of appendices offers:
- Extra practice activities
- A summary of key points and suggested responses to the learning activities
- A table showing the “palette” of systems thinking tools available
- A glossary of systems thinking terms
- A list of additional resources
- A summary of the systems archetypes
The many diagrams within the book clarify concepts and visually reinforce key principles. Systems Thinking Basics is ideal for aspiring systems thinkers eager to try their hand at using these powerful tools.
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Book : Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime…. (2008)
Categories: Government • Systems Thinking
Tags: book • government • management • police • public sector • public service • seddon • systems thinking • triarchy press
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Author(s): Seddon, John
Published: 2008 • ISBN: 0955008182 • 228 pages • Delivery Format: Hard Copy - Paperback
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The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there’s been massive investment in public sector ‘improvement’, ‘customer choice’ has been increased and new targets have been set and refined.
But our experience is that things haven’t changed much. This is because governments have invested in the wrong things. Belief in targets, incentives and inspection; belief in economies of scale and shared back-office services; belief in ‘deliverology… these are all wrong-headed ideas and yet they have underpinned this government’s attempts to reform the public sector.
John Seddon here dissects the changes that have been made in a range of services, including housing benefits, social care and policing. His descriptions beggar belief, though they would be funnier if it wasn’t our money that was being wasted.
In place of the current mess, he advocates a Systems Thinking approach where individuals come first, waste is reduced and responsibility replaces blame. It’s an approach that is proven, successful and relatively cheap - and one that governments around the world, and their advisers, need to adopt urgently.
John Seddon trained originally as an occupational psychologist. He is known around the world for his pioneering work on change in organisations and for translating and adapting the Toyota Production System (TPS) for use by service organisations.
John is also known for his consistently informed and controversial criticism of management fads and of much of the theory that has underpinned public sector reform. He is the leading advocate of systems thinking in business and in the public sector.
John is a widely published author and lectures at seminars conferences, universities and management schools around the world. He is Managing Director of Vanguard Ltd, a consultancy specialising in organisational change, and is a visiting professor at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, University of Cardiff.
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