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The Autumn Assembly 2000 Sessions |
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Earlier this year Racal became the first UK company to be assessed externally against EIA-731, the current industry standard for Systems Engineering (meaning, in this context, Project Engineering Management) Capability Maturity. This standard will be briefly described, and put in context with other related and emerging standards for Systems Engineering. You will also hear presentations from the DERA team who conducted the assessment, and from the Racal and Lockheed Martin teams who underwent it. The emphasis will be on what was learnt from the exercise, and how the companies are using the results as a mechanism for improving their Engineering process.
BAE SYSTEMS will offer a perspective on the use of CMM’s for internal assessment. Some related material gathered by the INCOSE Capability Assessment Working Group (CAWG) will be presented on the use of CMM’s elsewhere in industry.
This will be followed by a panel session where the presenters will speculate on future directions of CMM’s, their usefulness in a contractor selection process, and return on investment in the form of process improvement. Opinions will be solicited on what companies can learn from it, who to go to for advice, whether adoption gives value for money, whether it gives a good indicator of company capability. Plenty of time will be allowed for questions from the floor.
This session will be chaired by Paul Davies of Thomson Racal Defence. Presenters and panellists include representatives from DERA, Lockheed Martin, Thomson Racal Defence, and BAE Systems.
This session will focus on the evolving use of the Unified Modelling Langauge (UML) in Systems Engineering. There is a growing in interest in UML in the SE community – this year the INCOSE Symposium in Minneapolis included many papers and a one-day tutorial on the use of UML in SE.
First there will be a brief introduction to the ‘language’ for those who are not familiar with the notation. This should enable all attendees to understand the other sessions and to decide if the UML has something for them. The other parts of the session will be more detailed descriptions of the benefits and issues surrounding the use of the UML, including practical examples from industry.
The session will end with a debate on the motion: “The UML will become the standard language for expressing Systems Engineering analysis, architecture and design” . This will give you the opportunity to make your views known.
The session will be chaired by Dr Rob Collins of Entellechiea, and will include presentations from Hillary Sillitto of Pilkington Optronics and Steve Trevellion of Rational.
The UK, as a nation, has taken several sound initiatives toward making it a successful country in the ’Engineering of Systems’. These include:-
Collectively these appear to have put the UK a step ahead of other countries – but have they led to the successes they could have? This session will look at the issues surrounding the effective co-ordination of Academia, Government, Industry and INCOSE to promote and gain the benefits of Systems Engineering.
The session begins with a review of the UK SE Academic support scene. It is followed by an academic panel that is posed the question ‘How does academia support stakeholders?’ The panel’s views will then be subject to audience questions and debate.
To balance the discussion an industrial panel is posed the question ‘What does industry want from academia?’ Having heard both sides of the argument there will be an open forum to determine some actions that INCOSE could action as an agent of change.
The session chair will be Prof Peter Sydenham ably supported by Profs Philip M’Pherson, Derek Hitchins, David Kirkpatrick, Keith Burnham. The industry views will be presented by David Corral of BAeS, Peter Lister of Siemens Transportation and others.
The aim of this session is to identify the key issues which, if they could be resolved, would go a long way towards helping to improve the ability of UK industry to develop systems and products which deliver real benefits from consideration of human issues. The session has four principal objectives;
To identify the types of benefits which better consideration of human issues in systems development can bring
The session will take the form of a series of presentations from the invited speakers, which will be followed by an open discussion where you will be able to ask questions and state your views. A questionnaire will be circulated to attendees to obtain valuable information to support the work of the Human Factors and Systems Engineering National Advisory Committees (NACs).
The session will be chaired by Col. David Wright of HQ LAND Command and will feature contributions from Ron McLeod of Nickleby HFE Ltd, Hazel Courteney of CAA, Bob Miles of HSE Offshore Safety Division, Gretchen Burrett head of Human Factors, NATS, Mel Forster of the DPA and Ken Paler of BAE SYSTEMS.
This session has been sponsored by Nickleby HFE Ltd.
Instead of an exhibition we are trying a new format where Systems Engineering tool vendors are given the opportunity to address the whole audience. This will take the form of a short session before lunch on each day where vendors are able to present their latest developments. You will be able to continue talking to them during the lunch break, or make appointments to have them visit you at as later date if you have found their topic of particular interest.
On Monday evening there is another opportunity to discuss your pet theories, or relax and listen to someone else’s, over a glass of wine and on a full stomach. Professor Philip M’Pherson will speak after dinner and entertain you with some thought provoking viewpoints. Philip is the longest standing Systems Engineering Professor with around half a century of experience in the field of Systems Engineering.
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Last Updated: 06 October, 2005