October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
449 pages
13h
English
book
Complex Systems and Systems of Systems Engineering
by Dominique Luzeaux, Jean-René Ruault, Jean-Luc Wippler
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Chapter 3
Introduction to the Antarctica Life Support Facility Case Study 1
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Antarctica, or rather the Antarctica Life Support Facility that will be discussed over the following chapters, serves as a foundation for teaching systems engineering. In creating and publishing this case study, we have two main aims:
– to illustrate the systems engineering approach using an attractive, sufficiently complex and representative case study; and
– to use this study as a pretext to stimulate reflection on certain notions or concepts of systems engineering, some of which seem, to us, to have taken a wrong turning in the past.
We shall therefore approach this case study from two perspectives, that of supply and that of acquisition. We will show the journey from an initial idea to fulfillment in engineering terms, i.e. the definition of the solution, without going as far as the development or creation/production of this solution. We offer a general approach, indications and recommendations on activities to carry out, and we shall present certain techniques and methods to be used. However, we shall not cover the case in its ...
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