The 10 Biggest Illusions of Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering was based on a number of assumptions that are not consistent with today’s environment. These are illusions.
The Power of a One-Pager (And How You Can Put It to Use)
Putting information on a single page can be incredible useful if done right. While the trend is towards modeling, we argued before that documents still have their place. A one-pager is compelling, as there really is no excuse to read it. Unless you are using 3 Point font, you should be able to read and…
6 Trends in Embedded Systems Development That Will Affect Systems Engineering
There is no question that a transformation is taking place in product development: New technologies are making new products possible, and are changing the way how we think about existing products, like cars. But what are the trends driving this transformation? This article outlines six trends, based on the keynote of Jean-Marc Chery (STMicroelectronics) at…
Dealing with Change in Systems Engineering
Dealing with change is getting increasingly difficult. Here we describe a pattern library as one possible solution.
ReqIF in 2022: Silently Growing
ReqIF, the Requirements Interchange Format, is arguably the accepted format for exchanging requirements. Every serious requirements tool supports it, and ReqIF.academy has over 3000 members, demonstrating the ongoing interest in ReqIF. Yet, the press has been silent. It seems that there were few news on ReqIF. In this case, no news are good news. It…
How Changan is transforming their product development with MBSE
Changang is a chinese car manufacturer that successfully employs MBSE to transform development, for instance by finding problems earlier.
IoT Security: A Tsunami is coming
The numbers speak for themselves: There will be 1 trillion connected devices by 2035, but less than 4% of new devices include embedded security. Keep in mind that years, or decades will pass, until today’s embedded devices will be decommissioned. This is a Tsunami in the making, and we predict that the big disasters are…
The 4 Elements of IoT development
More and more products are connected, and are therefore part of the Internet of Things (IoT). But IoT development is fundamentally different from the development of more traditional products. This is a challenge for new companies that enter the market, but established organizations struggle even more, as their established and proven approaches are suddenly not working…
3 Ways for Writing Black Box Specifications
The black box paradigm helps dealing with product complexity. Learn about 3 ways for applying it.
The Vision of the Connected Car: C-V2X in Denver
Connecting cars promises many benefits, from saving time (rerouting around traffic jams and towards parking spaces), money (driving in platoon) and providing safety (warning of road hazards ahead of time). Of course, there are also risks, in particularly with respect to safety, due to bugs or malicious activities. But this will not stop progress, and…
