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DEVELOPING A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AUTOMATION STRATEGY
Author(s) -
Vigland Albert R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1993.tb01658.x
Subject(s) - automation , process (computing) , computer science , process automation system , systems engineering , engineering management , system of systems engineering , computer automated design , homogeneous , manufacturing engineering , software engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , systems design , engineering , business , mechanical engineering , operating system , physics , thermodynamics
In response to industry's need to manage systems engineering processes and methods, a market is evolving which is targeted at high‐level system design automation. Many of the tools on the market are extremely appealing — almost seductive — in their ability to captivate executives of large corporations struggling with systems engineering implementation issues. Just as an enterprise–wide homogeneous computer environment is a thing of the past, a “one–size–fits–all” solution to systems engineering automation is not likely to provide a competitive, cost effective solution. This paper describes a simple approach to organizing existing methodologies, analyzing the cost drivers for automation, and developing a strategy for automating the cost–effective segments of methodologies within an organizations systems engineering process.