Models for effective analysis of systems: An industrial case study

Margaret Myers, Agnes Kaposi, Carol Britton and John Kaposi

Systems Engineering, 2001, vol. 4, issue 1, 76-85

Abstract: This article introduces Product/process (P/p) modeling: a generic method suitable for describing situations and solving problems in many fields from technical to managerial and organizational. P/p modeling operates at the boundary between human cognition and technical specification, an area of particular interest in systems engineering. We show how P/p modeling can highlight and clarify important aspects of the systems engineering process in general, and then illustrate our claims for the method by a specific example taken from industrial practice. Using P/p modeling, the paper identifies explicitly the differences between “hard” processes, such as those used in classical engineering, and “soft” processes, found in new fields, such as business and system development. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Syst Eng 4: 76–85, 2001

Date: 2001
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