Modeling and analysis of integration processes for engineering systems

Meir Tahan and Joseph Z. Ben‐Asher

Systems Engineering, 2005, vol. 8, issue 1, 62-77

Abstract: A common systems engineering practice is to divide the integration process of large‐scale systems into stages in order to facilitate the integration. Often this divide‐and‐conquer method, or what we may call incremental integration, is the only way of rendering the integration of a complex system feasible. This paper proposes to consider the employment of the incremental integration methodology for large as well as for small systems. The main point is that in many cases it is beneficial, both timewise and costwise, to pursue the incremental integration methodology. It turns out to be more robust to process uncertainties. This may be true even when single stage integration is feasible. Various levels of incremental integrations are considered. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng 8: 62–77, 2005

Date: 2005
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