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Presents systems-based theory, methodology, and applications in risk modeling, assessment, and management This book examines risk analysis, focusing on quantifying risk and constructing probabilities for real-world decision-making, including engineering, design, technology, institutions, organizations, and policy.

This landmark book begins with the premise that an organization must often fundamentally transform its business practices and organizational culture to fully align with and realize the value of product and process innovations.

Aimed at engineers and managers of technology-based enterprises, this text explains how to solve problems associated with product planning and strategic thinking. It concentrates on the understanding of global markets and the need for companies to be competitive in these markets.

The principles of successful market-oriented and human-centered design are used to analyze the formation of a good business enterprise.

This manual aims to address some of the fundamental considerations associated with the engineering of large scale systems. It examines systems methodology, management and system quality assurance, as well as a variety of systems design approaches, particularly those involving the human factor.

Illustrating the major strategic challenges faced by executives and senior managers, this text articulates a range of choices of methods and tools rather than advocating one particular method. It features case studies from industry, government and non-profit organizations.

With the moves toward globalisation, outsourcing, and the rise of the knowledge-worker workforce, the internal and external environments of high technology enterprise have changed radically. As a consequence, the role and function of the contemporary manager have changed as well.

Describes a systematic approach to continuous process improvement through process capability studies, on-line and off-line design of experiments and statistical process control in the electronics and semiconductor industries.

This book describes the full life cycle of a design from conception through abandonment, and shows what human factor inputs engineers and designers need at each stage of development.

The first comprehensive guide to designing highly usable, fully integrated computer-based information systems. Traditional human-computer interaction (HCI) and system design models have proven too narrow to adequately assess user needs and to design usable and efficient computer-based information support systems.

People and Organizations is about people who operate, maintain, design, research, and manage complex systems, ranging from air traffic control systems, process control plants and manufacturing facilities to industrial enterprises, government agencies and universities.

Verification and Validation for Quality of UML 2. 0 Models deals primarily with the creation and enhancement of the quality of software models. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) of the Object Management Group forms the basis of the software models discussed in this book.

The book includes real world examples of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), such as a traffic control network in order for the reader to gain a good understanding of the properties of CAS Focuses on Operational Evaluation Modeling (OpEM) where simulation of a system in its operational environment is a main theme.

A practitioner's handbook that integrates knowledge, competencies, methodologies and applications across the discipline. Can improve the effectiveness of organizational and individual Risk Management practices by documenting and integrating best-practice concepts from a range of complementary disciplines.

Discover the emerging science and engineering of System of Systems Many challenges of the twenty-first century, such as fossil fuel energy resources, require a new approach.

This book provides an understanding of governance and its relevance to information security. It gives readers a clear, step-by-step approach to developing a sound security strategy aligned with their business objectives in order to ensure a predictable level of functionality and assurance.

Presents the foundational systemic thinking needed to conceive systems that address complex socio-technical problems This book emphasizes the underlying systems analysis components and associated thought processes.

Helping readers become better innovators by learning and understanding the principles of Function Analysis System Technique (FAST), Stimulating Innovation in Products and Services explains how innovation can be discovered and developed using systematic and replicable methods.

Combining author William F. Christopher's work with the ideas presented in Stafford Beer's seminal book The Heart of Enterprise, Viable Systems Management Science: A New Roadmap for Management provides managers with a powerful, descriptive and diagnostic tool to view the company and manage it better.

Computer-based simulation has long been used to project the behavior of systems too complex for analytical calculation.

The forces of Lean and Information Technology are complementary. Moreover, the transformation of any enterprise to a competitive Lean enterprise requires the skillful use of IT throughout the internal value streams and external supply chain.

Nine innovative methods to think outside the box and solve complex system problems Managing Complex Systems provides specific tools and guidance needed to be a more creative and innovative thinker.

Systems engineering is management technology to assist and support the policy making , planning, decision making, resource allocation, and action deployment associated with large scale engineering systems. This book explores fundamental and introductory considerations associated with the engineering of large scale systems.

Adaptive information refers to when one system is made capable of using parts of another system in a meaningful way without requiring the systems to become tightly coupled.

* Unlike the competition this book is problem rather than tool oriented* Provides simple a set of simple systematic heuristic methods for a general course in decision making* Accompanied by an Instructor's Guide. Contact rexvbrown@aol. com. .

Tech Mining makes exploitation of text databases meaningful to those who can gain from derived knowledge about emerging technologies. It begins with the premise that we have the information, the tools to exploit it, and the need for the resulting knowledge. The information provided puts new capabilities at the hands of technology managers.

Over the past decade the military (both US and foreign) has developed a wide range of tools, techniques, and technologies for integrating human factors into systems engineering. Many of these methodologies have been providing a number of cost and performance benefits that otherwise would not have been accomplished. This book deals with this topic.

Get a firm handle on the engineering reliability process with this insightful and complete resourceThe newly and thoroughly revised 3rd Edition of Reliability Engineering delivers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of this crucial field. Accomplished author, professor, and engineer, Elsayed. A. Elsayed includes new examples and end-of-chapter problems to illustrate concepts, new chapters on resilience and the physics of failure, revised chapters on reliability and hazard functions, and more case studies illustrating the approaches and methodologies described within.The book combines analyses of system reliability estimation for time independent and time dependent models with the construction of the likelihood function and its use in estimating the parameters of failure time distribution. It concludes by addressing the physics of failures, mechanical reliability, and system resilience, along with an explanation of how to ensure reliability objectives by providing preventive and scheduled maintenance and warranty policies.This new edition of Reliability Engineering covers a wide range of topics, including:* Reliability and hazard functions, like the Weibull Model, the Exponential Model, the Gamma Model, and the Log-Logistic Model, among others* System reliability evaluations, including parallel-series, series-parallel, and mixed parallel systems* The concepts of time- and failure-dependent reliability within both repairable and non-repairable systems* Parametric reliability models, including types of censoring, and the Exponential, Weibull, Lognormal, Gamma, Extreme Value, Half-Logistic, and Rayleigh DistributionsPerfect for first-year graduate students in industrial and systems engineering, Reliability Engineering, 3rd Edition also belongs on the bookshelves of practicing professionals in research laboratories and defense industries. The book offers a practical and approachable treatment of a complex area, combining the most crucial foundational knowledge with necessary and advanced topics.

This important book fills the need for a textbook on economic systems analysis and assessment, providing extensive coverage on various topics including microeconomic systems and assessment, cost effectiveness, cost estimation for software and systems, strategic investments, and valuation methods.

Providing readers with a clear, useful framework for systems engineering, this book integrates the Japanese and Western perspectives of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and relates its unique framework to current, widely adopted philosophies of quality assurance.