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Earlier this year Racal became the first UK company to beassessed externally against EIA-731, the current industry standard for SystemsEngineering (meaning, in this context, Project Engineering Management)Capability Maturity. This standard will be briefly described, and put in contextwith other related and emerging standards for Systems Engineering. You will alsohear presentations from the DERA team who conducted the assessment, and from theRacal and Lockheed Martin teams who underwent it. The emphasis will be on whatwas learnt from the exercise, and how the companies are using the results as amechanism for improving their Engineering process.
BAE SYSTEMS will offer a perspective on the use ofCMMs for internal assessment. Some related material gathered by the INCOSECapability Assessment Working Group (CAWG) will be presented on the use ofCMMs elsewhere in industry.
This will be followed by a panel session where thepresenters will speculate on future directions of CMMs, their usefulness in acontractor selection process, and return on investment in the form of processimprovement. Opinions will be solicited on what companies can learn fromit, who to go to for advice, whether adoption gives value for money, whether itgives a good indicator of company capability. Plenty of time will beallowed for questions from the floor.
This session will be chaired by Paul Davies of ThomsonRacal Defence. Presenters and panellists include representatives from DERA,Lockheed Martin, Thomson Racal Defence, and BAE Systems.
This session will focus on the evolving use of the UnifiedModelling Langauge (UML) in Systems Engineering. There is a growing in interestin UML in the SE community this year the INCOSE Symposium in Minneapolisincluded many papers and a one-day tutorial on the use of UML in SE.
First there will be a brief introduction to thelanguage for those who are not familiar with the notation. This shouldenable all attendees to understand the other sessions and to decide if the UMLhas something for them. The other parts of the session will be more detaileddescriptions of the benefits and issues surrounding the use of the UML,including practical examples from industry.
The session will end with a debate on the motion: TheUML will become the standard language for expressing Systems Engineeringanalysis, architecture and design . This will give you the opportunityto make your views known.
The session will be chaired by Dr Rob Collins ofEntellechiea, and will include presentations from Hillary Sillitto of PilkingtonOptronics and Steve Trevellion of Rational.
The UK, as a nation, has taken several soundinitiatives toward making it a successful country in the Engineering ofSystems. These include:-
Collectively these appear to have put the UK a step aheadof other countries but have they led to the successes they could have? This session will look at the issues surrounding the effective co-ordination ofAcademia, Government, Industry and INCOSE to promote and gain the benefits ofSystems Engineering.
The session begins with a review of the UK SE Academicsupport scene. It is followed by an academic panel that is posed thequestion How does academia support stakeholders? The panels viewswill then be subject to audience questions and debate.
To balance the discussion an industrial panel is posed thequestion What does industry want from academia? Having heard bothsides of the argument there will be an open forum to determine some actions thatINCOSE could action as an agent of change.
The session chair will be Prof Peter Sydenham ablysupported by Profs Philip MPherson, Derek Hitchins, David Kirkpatrick, KeithBurnham. The industry views will be presented by David Corral of BAeS,Peter Lister of Siemens Transportation and others.
The aim of this session is to identify the key issueswhich, if they could be resolved, would go a long way towards helping to improvethe ability of UK industry to develop systems and products which deliver realbenefits from consideration of human issues. The session has fourprincipal objectives;
To identify the types of benefits which better consideration of human issues in systems development can bring
The session will take the form of a series of presentationsfrom the invited speakers, which will be followed by an open discussion whereyou will be able to ask questions and state your views. A questionnairewill be circulated to attendees to obtain valuable information to support thework of the Human Factors and Systems Engineering National Advisory Committees (NACs).
The session will be chaired by Col. David Wright of HQ LANDCommand and will feature contributions from Ron McLeod of Nickleby HFE Ltd,Hazel Courteney of CAA, Bob Miles of HSE Offshore Safety Division, GretchenBurrett head of Human Factors, NATS, Mel Forster of the DPA and Ken Paler of BAESYSTEMS.
This session has been sponsored by Nickleby HFE Ltd.
Instead of an exhibition we aretrying a new format where Systems Engineering tool vendors are given theopportunity to address the whole audience. This will take the form of ashort session before lunch on each day where vendors are able to present theirlatest developments. You will be able to continue talking to them duringthe lunch break, or make appointments to have them visit you at as later date ifyou have found their topic of particular interest.
On Monday evening there is another opportunity to discussyour pet theories, or relax and listen to someone elses, over a glass of wineand on a full stomach. Professor Philip MPherson will speak after dinner andentertain you with some thought provoking viewpoints. Philip is thelongest standing Systems Engineering Professor with around half a century ofexperience in the field of Systems Engineering.
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Last Updated: 29 May, 2003