Onal Systems Engineering Methodology

Personal Systems Engineering Methodology

Contents

Abilities 3

Concept of Operations 4

Operations Concept 6

Requirements 9

Allocations 12

Design 14

Manufacturing 17

Repair and Maintenance 20

Retirement 21

Example 1 24

Example 2 25

Summary 27

Abilities

To begin, a list of abilities must be identified in order to best understand the process for determining how to make the best and smartest decision in the future. This document is meant to serve as a template to my future self when I am stuck between options or simply need to figure the answer out to a problem that I am having. The following are a list of “-abilities:”

Aesthetic-ability

Accessibility

Affordability

Adaptability

Availability

Durability

Engineer - ability

Feasibility

Maintainability

Manufacturability

Marketability

Perform-ability

Profitability

Recyclability

Reliability

Repair-ability

Reusability

Schedule-ability

Staff-ability

Sustainability

Concept of Operations

The next step, before I go any further, I should benchmark the product or idea that I am going after to see what is out there. This will help in the next steps when I have a bunch of different questions to answer. By benchmarking, I get an idea of where I can go to find the answer and just how big of an idea or thought I am chasing after.

I am choosing to take an example of benchmarking that was completed by myself earlier this term in hopes that I will remember what was learned and have a bit more information after the example shown.

This benchmarking was done for different types of washing machines where different characteristic were put up against each other. As we can see above, the best decision was to choose Brand 2 based off of the numbers. The importance column in yellow has postiive or negative numbers based upon whether it is a good or bad thing. For example, having to use water is bad thing but having high capacity in the machine is good and is also almost very...