Systems Engineering for Product Development

As products grow increasingly complex to meet the demands of the contemporary global market, companies are challenged to consistently deliver high-quality products under tighter and tighter budgets and schedules. Systems engineering provides a multidisciplinary set of tools and techniques for understanding, organizing, and managing the complexity of product development throughout the product life cycle.

The Systems Engineering for Product Development course delivers the key skills and knowledge essential for successful product development in today’s fast-paced environment. You will learn a unified and systematic approach for a variety of essential functions:

• eliciting user needs,
• developing and documenting requirements,
• defining robust system architectures,
• managing external and internal interfaces,
• guiding subsystem/component design,
• effectively performing integration and testing, and
• supporting fielding, operations, and maintenance.

The course provides a common set of terms and proven methods for ensuring repeatable, consistent results. Our content reflects an agile and lean approach to product development and can be customized to meet your specific business challenges. You will learn current industry best practices to ensure robust, cost-effective approaches that meet stringent functional, performance, and cost requirements.

Custom Program Benefits

Your team will learn to:

• Analyze customer needs and develop clearly-stated requirements
• Apply systems thinking to optimize product design and development
• Develop innovative approaches for system design and integration
• Define cost-effective verification and validation programs
• Effectively manage cost, schedule, and risk in engineering tasks

Topics

• Roles and Responsibilities of a Systems Engineer
• User Requirements
• Functional Analysis
• System Specifications
• System Architecture
• Decision Analysis
• Design and Integration
• Verification and Validation
• Engineering Specialties
• System Engineering Management
• Risk Management

Who should attend

Component/subsystems engineers, software/hardware engineers, systems engineers, project managers, business analysts, and technical support personnel who want a comprehensive understanding of the breadth of systems engineering activities, tools, and techniques and their interconnections across the product lifecycle.

Instructors

Rick Hefner, PhD