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The enabling role of Configuration Management for the Systems Engineering of tomorrow's complex Systems and Systems of Systems
Author(s) -
D'Souza Adriana,
Kossmann Mario,
Watts Stephen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2016.00288.x
Subject(s) - system of systems , traceability , key (lock) , aerospace , systems engineering , process management , complex system , computer science , systems development life cycle , risk analysis (engineering) , configuration management (itsm) , information system , system of systems engineering , systems design , engineering , business , software engineering , computer security , software development process , electrical engineering , software development , aerospace engineering , software , artificial intelligence , programming language
Times to market for complex Systems and Systems of Systems(SoS) in the aerospace and defence industries shall be reduced, whereas both customer expectations and technology evolutions are increasing at an exponential rate. As the total life cycle of complex Systems and SoS frequently spans across several decades, the customer expectations and market conditions are highly likely to evolve, thus their development needs to be kept in line with evolving business cases. Systems Engineering(SE) and Configuration Management(CM) need to work even more closely together in order to address this. CM as a discipline is essential for this as the key discipline for establishing traceability and controlling baseline evolutions and iterations between all the relevant pieces of information resulting from the related system lifecycle processes. This paper provides an outlook on how CM may enable SE of tomorrow's complex Systems and SoS, including some key recommendations and related challenges.