| Abstracts of the Presentations |
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| Wednesday 25.10 on Silja Symphony, Stockholm Harbour |
| Oct 25th 10.15-11.00 |
| "Systems Integration: An Evolving Business Strategy within the Commercial (Systems and Services) and Aerospace Industry" |
| Dr. Dinesh Verma |
| Premier companies, driven by competitiveness and cost, are evolving a business strategy around the concept of systems integration. In this regard, the role of a system integrator evolves from providing products, systems, and system elements to providing a clearly defined functionality or a solution. This requires additional discipline within the framework of the systems engineering process and a clear understanding of the role played by hardware, software, and human elements, along with the inherent interfaces, in the consistent delivery of the required functionality. This presentation will discuss the business strategy of systems integration, present specific case studies from the aerospace and commercial market domains, and discuss related challenges. |
| Oct 25th 11.00-12.00 |
| "Developing Complex Commercial Systems" |
| Dr. Richard Stevens |
| This presentation applies the system approach on complex, business-related issues, assuming a basic systems engineering understanding. It covers issues such as outsourcing, re-use, interoperability, program management, technology management, innovation and large-scale systems in systems engineering terms. These examples are based on industrial experience across a range of companies. |
| Oct 25th 13.00-13.45 |
| "Managing complex system development in multisite/multiproject/multipartner environment" |
| Osmo Vikman |
| Large telecommunication system products (e.g. mobile network systems) are typically developed in a "virtual product development environment", which has been distributed between multiple sites, multiple projects and multiple partners. Managing the development effort and constant changes from multiple sources in such an environment is a tough challenge. This presentation proposes an environment for modelling, simulating and supporting complex system development management environment. |
| Osmo Vikman is currently working in the Nokia Research Center Software Technology laboratory SPI-group in Helsinki as an Assistant R&D Manager. His primary research interest is systems & requirements engineering in large telecommunications system product programs. In 1973, he received his Master's Degree from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland. He has since worked in several Finnish companies in various R&D and software development related jobs, prior to joining Nokia Telecommunications in the beginning of 1991. In Nokia Telecommunications he has worked in various telecommunications R&D-projects as an Engineering Manager and Senior Technical consultant. In March 1998 he joined Nokia Research Center where he is currently in charge of the Systems & Requirements Engineering of the SPI-group. Prior to joining Nokia he has also contributed to various international standardisation workgroups and to a broadband ISDN research project in the RACE-program in 1989 - 1990. He was elected chairman of the Finnish Systems Engineering Association (FINSE ry) for year 2000. |
| Oct 25th 13.45-14.30 |
| "Aspects on Systems Engineering Data Exchange" |
| Erik Herzog |
| The trends towards more complex systems and towards inter-organisational development projects makes reliable mechanisms and tools for exchange and management of system specifications a crucial success factor for systems engineering projects. This presentation will focus on different strategies for implementing tool data exchange capabilities, with an emphasis on the emerging AP-233 standard and on the relevance of the STEP standard framework to systems engineering. |
| Erik Herzog is a Ph.D. student at the Real-Time Systems laboratory at the department of Computer and Information Science at Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. His research interests include Systems engineering, specification methods, information modelling and tool integration techniques. He is also a nominated national expert to ISO TC184/SC4/WG3 and the architect of the AP-233 data exchange standard. |
| Oct 25th 14.45-15.30 |
| "Architectures and foundations for C4ISR" |
| Johan Bendz |
| The Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF) are undergoing a major "Business Process
Reengineering" effort according to the globally acknowledged RMA concept
(Revolution in Military Affairs). This involves the fundamental shift from a
treat-based to a capability-based doctrinal viewpoint and a new principal
objective of being able to partake in international coalition operations.
This poses a set of organisational and technological challenges in various
critical areas, eg Precision Engagement (weapons etc), Command & Control/Decision
Support and Focused Logistics.
In order to facilitate the evolution of the next generation C4ISR capabilities in the SwAF, a spearhead program has been launched to develop a comprehensive Architecture approach, allowing for integrated product and process development supported by a ubiquitous Knowledge Base. The presentation will introduce some of the basic concepts which form some important cornerstones of the proposed Architecture. |
| Johan H Bendz, Pricipal Technical Officer at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), currently working in the Systems Architecture group within the Joint Systems Command. Johan has been involved in SwAF C4ISR and IS/IT for more than 10 years, both as a consultant and since 1994 as an FMV employee. He has been the Technical Editor of the SwAF IS/IT strategies since 1994 and is now the PM for the C4ISR Architecture effort. Johan has a somewhat unorthodox background, being a trained agricultural scientist with a special interest in creative thinking. |
| Oct 25th 15.30-16.15 |
| "Requirements Management for Product Families: a Three Dimensional Approach" |
| Prof. Ken Jackson |
| In helping companies implement requirements management processes, we frequently
face the problem of how to integrate principles of requirements abstraction and
traceability with composition management and other issues surrounding the management
of product families.
The main objective in product family management is to reduce the cost of delivering systems by recognising the commonality between successive versions and achieving reuse at multiple product layers, e.g. systems, sub-systems and components. A key objective of requirements management is to achieve traceability of how one product layer meets the requirements of the layer above. Traceability enables change management through impact and derivation analysis. This presentation describes a management model which combines the three principal "dimensions" of the problem:
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| Oct 25th 16.15-16.30 |
| "Presentation of the International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE)" |
| Tom Strandberg |
| Tom Strandberg is Technical Director at Syntell AB, an engineering consultancy firm based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a MSc degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm complemented with a MSc degree in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. He has since applied a systems approach to the development of systems internationally working for the Swedish Transport Research Institute as well as the UN. Since 1995 he has supported both commercial and defense companies in Sweden within the areas of Systems Engineering, Project Management and Integrated Logistics Support. He is a member of the board of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) as a Regional Director representing European Industry. He is also vice president of the Swedish Chapter of INCOSE |
| Oct 25th 19.00-20.00 |
| "Open Workshop on Competitive Advantage through Efficient Needs Analysis, and Requirements and Expectation Identification" |
| This up front activity has to do with defining the right problem, and causes a significant vectoring of the problem solving (systems engineering) process. However, very often in the commercial and aerospace domains the problem is not only to identify the pertinent requirements but (driving by resource and time constraints) to also prioritize these requirements. This workshop, organised by Dinesh Verma and Tom Strandberg, will focus on an innovative method involving the application of fuzzy concepts to the QFD process and Pugh's Concept Selection Methodology. |
| Thursday 26.10 in Marina Congress Center, Helsinki Katajanokka |
| Oct 26th 10.30-11.15 |
| "A Systems Approach to E-Business Development" |
| Dr. Richard Stevens |
| Initially there was a lack of interest from e-business companies towards a disciplined development approaches. The challenges of scaling, reliability, and security have forced a dramatic change of attitude. Companies have had to alter their development strategies to shorten the development cycle. This talk presents the experiences of companies in implementing complex e-business systems and the impact of those systems at the business level. |
| Oct 26th 11.15-12.00 |
| "Application of Innovative Methods to Early Systems Engineering Phases: Need Analysis and Requirements Definition, Concept Evaluation, and System Architecture Development." |
| Dr. Dinesh Verma |
| Early systems engineering and design phases are characterized by subjective and incomplete information. Rigor and discipline during later design and development phases cannot compensate for an ill-conceived system concept, or for premature commitments made during the conceptual design phase. Accordingly, the design phase of the system life cycle is finally being recognized for its potential impact on the development of truly efficient and effective products, systems, and structures that more closely track customer requirements and needs. However, the focus of most research groups is directed to the "later" phases of system development; to preliminary and detail design. A survey and review of selected research activities on design analysis and evaluation validates this claim. This presentation will introduce methods based on concepts from the field of fuzzy logic and the formalization of proven heuristics to address the early needs analysis and requirements definition phase, the assessment and evaluation of system concepts, an the assessment and evaluation of system architectures. |
| Oct 26th 13.00-13.45 |
| "Creating New Profiles for Bluetooth" |
| Mårten Mattsson |
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| Mårten Mattsson, Manager Professional Services at Telelogic AB, is an expert on TTCN-testing and has worked with the test specifications for the Bluetooth Qualification Program for the last two years. At Telelogic he leads a group of consultants working with TTCN-testing and SDL-design for various wireless technologies. |
| Oct 26th 13.45-14.30 |
| "The Emerging Role of Risk Management " |
| Helena Saukkonen |
| Today enterprises face the rapidly changing business environment, globalisation as well as tightening legal and control requirements. This has remarkably changed the role and importance of Risk Management. Risk Management purely focusing on technical risks is no more sufficient, instead it needs to be implemented in the strategic decision process. This presentation focuses on Enterprise Risk Management, which is a systematic approach for assessing, mitigating and monitoring the risks as well analyzing the opportunities. Risk communication, which is an essential part of this process is also discussed. |
| Helena Saukkonen, who is currently working as Senior Consultant on Enterprise Risk Management in Ramse Consulting Ltd, Helsinki has a Lic. Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering in Helsinki University of Technology. She has earlier been working in insurance industry, where she held several positions including risk management, underwriting and development of global insurance solutions and alternative risk financing tools. |
| Oct 26th 14.45-15.45 |
| "Supporting Competitive Tendering" |
| Prof. Ken Jackson |
| Assessing the relative merits of a set of competing tenders or proposals can be a
difficult task. It relies on human judgement and the process adopted in many
organisations can be haphazard and unrepeatable. Consequently decisions made can be
difficult to justify.
This presentation introduces the concepts necessary to support a systematic process for the assessment of competing tenders (also known as proposals or bids). The basis of the approach is that a properly constructed and reviewed marking scheme must be prepared well before the Tenders are received. Indeed it is also possible for all or part of the marking scheme to be published in the Invitation to Tender (ITT). The assessment teams must also be organised well in advance and their responsibilities clearly identified. The presentation will indicate the benefits of supporting these concepts and the overall process with a tool which recognises the key roles in an assessment and ensures that all the information is consistent and coherent at each major step in the process. In addition, the tool provides significant help to analyse the results of the assessments, to debrief the bidders, to justify the selection decision and to direct contract negotiation. |
Last updated 20.06.2001 by Markus Renlund