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October 15, 2020
Requirements Traceability in an MBSE Environment
The complexity of electrical and electronic (E/E) systems is accelerating across multiple industries and sectors. Manufacturers are adapting their design and development approaches to meet the changing requirements of advancing electrification.
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September 24, 2020
Is Your Product Development Process Infected?
COVID has not only been disruptive to our daily lives but now we’re seeing the effects on our work lives as well. Company operations have had to adapt to accommodate a workforce suddenly no longer in the office. Companies are facing new challenges, from remote tool access to the purchase and distribution of new online tools.
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September 17, 2020
Validating Systems Architectures from the Bottom Up
Thanks to advancing technology, products are becoming more feature-rich and in turn, more complex. They must incorporate sophisticated electronic and electrical systems to provide the interconnectivity and user experience modern consumers demand. As a result, many organizations increasingly rely on systems engineering.
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August 13, 2020
Two Design Approaches – Will MBSE Design Prevail?
Products are increasing in complexity at an astonishing rate. Smartphones are just one example: today’s devices combine the functionality of yesterday’s phones, cameras, calculators, and pagers and place desktop applications and internet browsers in the palms of our hands. Advancing electrification, mass miniaturization, and IoT-driven digitization are making a vast range of devices smarter and smaller. To cope with these changes, manufacturers must transform the way they develop complex systems. This post compares and contrasts the traditional and modern approaches to developing and verifying products.
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July 30, 2020
Systems Engineering Enables Traceability for Electrical and Electronic Design
There’s no doubt about it: products are getting smarter. And that translates to increasing complexity for manufacturers. Traditional mechanical products suddenly require cabling and wiring, internet connectivity, and embedded software to function.
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July 16, 2020
Using Simulation-Driven Design to Power Digital Engineering
Customer demands and marketplace competition are placing engineers under mounting time pressures. An organization’s development schedules must shorten to keep pace with the industry and the wider market. Many established digital tools are now available to accelerate development lifecycles. Simulation is one of them. Engineers use digital simulation-driven design to expedite innovation and move product development forward.
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June 04, 2020
Digital Transformation for Product Development
Manufacturing wants to leap into the world of the Jetsons. But there is one small problem: every time leadership consults a compass, it shows a different way forward. At first, there was digital automation, which was soon replaced by digitization. Then ...
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May 05, 2020
Developing Our Next-Generation SE Workforce
Whenever I visit an organization engaged in systems engineering, the #1 challenge is always the same. Large or small, seasoned or new, government or commercial, the complaint is always the shortage of good systems engineers. The common refrain is “we don’t have enough, and many of the ones we have are retiring.”...
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March 19, 2020
Lost in Translation – How MBSE is Evolving to address Today’s Complexity Challenges
Mission complexity is growing faster than our ability to handle it. As traditional methods are coming under pressure, the evolution of model-based systems engineering promises help. David Long, President of the systems engineering company Vitech, explains how.
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November 21, 2019
9 Characteristics of Good Systems Engineering
What makes for good systems engineering? We all know how difficult systems engineering is, but how well are we doing?
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November 07, 2019
Wired for Duty, OTSAW’s Autonomous Security Robots are Serving and Protecting
OTSAW is a global company developing robotics solutions for security, delivery, and mobility applications, implementing their self-driving and artificial intelligence technologies into cutting-edge machines. Wired for duty, OTSAW’s autonomous security robots are serving and protecting.
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October 03, 2019
Zuken’s Leap into Digital Engineering and MBSE
You may have heard about Zuken’s recent acquisition of a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) company called Vitech Corporation. Yes, Vitech has an MBSE product called GENESYS, but first and foremost, they are a Systems Engineering company. Let’s take a look at Zuken’s leap into digital engineering and MBSE to understand the WHY.
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September 26, 2019
Next Generation Additive Manufacturing
Yes, it is true that even today, so many years after 3D printing started to garner attention and acclaim, rapid prototyping remains the single most common use for 3D printers. 3D printers offer the innovator advantages in the form of shorter turnaround times, improved development secrecy and greater design freedoms. But…it is also true that 3D printing isn’t going to remain as a tool for primarily rapid prototyping for much longer.
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September 19, 2019
Five Ground-breaking uses of AI in the Last Five Years
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is everywhere. Second-guessing our playlists, what we want to buy, where we want to go and how to get there. Often unseen. Always present. AI can do this because it has access to Big Data. Powerful machine learning can make just about anything a lot smarter. How much data is big data?
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August 22, 2019
Digital Twins and the Power of Predictive Maintenance
What exactly is a digital twin? It is a simulated model of an actual working product in the field...
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June 06, 2019
Understanding the Value of the Digital Twin
Today, there are many new concepts emerging that can dramatically improve product development. The idea of a Digital Twin is one that offers quite a bit of promise for the development of electrical and electronic systems. There’s been quite a bit of buzz about it lately as well as a lot of confusion. Right now, there are a few different definitions of the Digital Twin. In this post, we’ll explain the value of two of them.
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