{"id":10690,"date":"2017-12-06T00:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zuken.com\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2023-05-13T04:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T08:01:41","slug":"system-systems-design-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/us\/blog\/system-systems-design-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"A System of Systems Design Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional PCB-centric design process is being replaced by a system-centric process. The system can be defined as the final product (e.g., camera) or one of the many components that comprise a product (e.g., 1 of 80 electronic control units in a car). Product complexity is driving this profound shift away from a focus on detailed design toward a systems engineering approach.<\/p>\n<p>We see the system-centric design process requiring a convergence of detailed design disciplines towards 3D (e.g., PCB, mechanical, electrical) while expanding the process to include Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and <a href=\"https:\/\/us.zuken.com\/cr-8000\/hardware-architecture-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hardware architecture design<\/a>. Design complexity is driving the formalization of requirements capture, use cases and design structure. The model then moves to system- or product-level architecture optimization. The need for improved productivity is driving the need to converge detailed design disciplines into a 3D co-design environment.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaleng.news\/de\/system-systems-design-approach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more at Digital Engineering<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe traditional PCB-centric design process is being replaced by a system-centric process. The system can be defined as the final product (e.g., camera) or one of the many components that comprise a product (e.g., 1 of 80 electronic control units in a car). Product complexity is driving this profound shift away from a focus on detailed design toward a systems engineering approach.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":11272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[243,228],"tags":[310,319,325],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automotive","category-pcb-design","tag-hardware-architecture","tag-mbse","tag-system-of-systems-design"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A System of Systems Design Approach - Zuken Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The traditional PCB-centric design process is being replaced by a system-centric process.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/us\/blog\/system-systems-design-approach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A System of Systems Design Approach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The traditional PCB-centric design process is being replaced by a system-centric process.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/us\/blog\/system-systems-design-approach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Americas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zukenglobal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-06T00:21:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-13T08:01:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zuken.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/04\/vehicle-systems-featured-img.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"727\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bob Potock\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@zukeneurope\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@zukeneurope\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bob Potock\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/system-systems-design-approach\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/system-systems-design-approach\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bob Potock\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d71d69c6e2c297bce0173fe8e06bf95d\"},\"headline\":\"A System of Systems Design Approach\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-06T00:21:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-13T08:01:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/system-systems-design-approach\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":151,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/system-systems-design-approach\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/12\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/vehicle-systems-featured-img.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Hardware Architecture\",\"MBSE\",\"System of Systems Design\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Automotive\",\"PCB Design\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/system-systems-design-approach\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/system-systems-design-approach\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.zuken.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/system-systems-design-approach\\\/\",\"name\":\"A System of Systems Design Approach - 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