9 Laws of Systems Engineering

Systems engineering is becoming increasingly important in today's business world. Even in businesses and industries where the term "systems engineering" is unknown, the need for someone to guide the overall design and maintenance of business products and processes is becoming apparent. Business cannot afford to develop products that won't meet their customers' needs or implement processes that will not "plug into" their business needs.

The job of the systems engineer (with or without that title) is to see that products and processes hit their targets. Meeting customer needs and improving the quality of their own business processes is critical. Sound systems thinking and systems engineering is governed by nine foundational truths or laws of systems engineering.

[alexanderrei]

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[ancientbuilder]

A great introduction to the basics and an explanation of the need and benefits of systems engineering professionals

[axelvanhooren]

A few additional thoughts
- What the customer wants is not always what he needs.
And what he wants, needs or asks doesn't necessarily match his expectations or lead to satisfaction. These are all different concepts that may not be confused!
- Understanding the problem is not the same as identifying the right problem (the right cause; diagnosis).
- ‘Analysis’ is often defined as looking inwards into something, looking at the parts and their relationships. Systems can not be designed without understanding of their supra-system and their environment. We need to do an outward ‘analysis’, an analysis of the environment.
Analysis as in Systems Analysis has not the same meaning as 'analysis' in the dictionary.

[CandyHam]

And better title for this might be nine laws of MBSE. Not all SE practitioners have access to MBSE yet

[Post]

A good amount of information on what systems engineering is defined as, communicated clearly and briefly. Though some of the other commentators’ thoughts are apparently exclusively analytical.

[rafaaranda]

Very helpful and informative! thank you! Following.

[magardunoe]

I had my SYSTEMS ENGINEERING class back in 1985, ever since I see the WORD major MIS-CONCEPTIONS: Transpórtation Industry is broken into alleways of SUB-COMMODITIES. "carmakers" "airplane makers" "roadmakers" "trainmakers" etc. Another major failure of Man -Kind is the ill conceived Money System.

[souravmanglani]

tomorrow is my exam. and I couldn't study anything pls help me to pass the exam

[bobgolden]

Can you possibly waste more time? Law 1 - say it, teach it, show how. Don't add useless fill.

[marcelinogarcia]

boring guy is the reason I loose intrest on man make it interesting slow talking and waste of time

[PhionaSibisi-vezw]

this is why i watch medical/science videos than engineering vids. so boring