Welcome to the SOuthern ARizona (SOARizona) INCOSE chapter website. The chapter is centered in Tucson, Arizona. Anyone whose interests intersect with the profession of Systems Engineering is welcome to participate. This includes those in the profession of Project Management for engineering content as described on the wiki for the Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK). Get involved with the chapter through chapter meetings, speaker series, working groups, conferences, the U of A, and support to pre-college development of interest in Systems Engineering. SOARizona is also actively engaged with mentoring in the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona.
The SOARizona Chapter is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems.
To share, promote and advance the best of systems engineering from across the globe for the benefit of humanity and the planet.
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Sep 08, 2021 4:45 PM - Sep 08, 2021 6:00 PM Mountain Standard Time
Abstract: Whether “just” a large Systems Engineering project with multiple subsystems or a true Systems-of Systems scenario, working out the optimal system-level trade-offs will typically involve significant engineering effort in each of the subsystems, which each have their own significant trade-offs to work out while concurrently feeding the knowledge required for the system level trade-offs. This presentation will discuss how Set-Based practices can enable the higher level system to proceed concurrently with its subsystems, coordinating their efforts, and allowing their decision-making to converge together. The presentation will introduce three key enablers of that coordination: Decision-Based Scheduling, Integrating Events, and Causal Mapping. Applied together, those Set-Based practices enable a fundamental paradigm shift in how the front end of Systems Engineering is done, resulting in tremendous acceleration of the learning and coordinated decision-making, with the potential to cut project times in half. Bio:
Brian is an author of the book Success Is Assured and is an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) who has spent more than 25 years designing complex software systems. He was Chief Architect of i2 Technologies’ Supply Chain Planner and Demand Fulfillment applications, applying Toyota lean manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, and advanced optimization to the planning and scheduling of the larger supply chain, helping to establish a new market space (Supply Chain Management) and generating billions of dollars of value for i2’s customers. Brian was named the first i2 Fellow and holds more than a dozen patents on the inventions that were the basis for those software systems. As co-founder and CTO of Targeted Convergence Corporation, Brian is responsible for the systems engineering of TCC’s Success Assured® software and the associated training, which are both designed for superior systems and mission engineering in the early conceptual stages of development.
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