Systems Engineering

Publications

Platform-Independent Debugging of Physical Interaction and Signal Flow Models

September 16, 2019

Author(s):

Mehdi Dadfarnia, Raphael Barbau

Systems engineering tools are used to organize development activities of a wide variety ofen gineers, many of which develop their own discipline-specific...

Integrated Operations Management for Distributed Manufacturing

August 28, 2019

Author(s):

Timothy A. Sprock, Michael E. Sharp, William Z. Bernstein, Michael P. Brundage, Moneer M. Helu, Thomas D. Hedberg

In traditional manufacturing operations management systems, the four pillars of ISA-95 (production, quality, maintenance, inventory) are each implemented as...

Towards Operational Use of Unit Manufacturing Process Models

July 25, 2019

Author(s):

Amogh Kulkarni, William Z. Bernstein, David Lechevalier, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai, Peter O. Denno

Unit Manufacturing Processes (UMP) are models that capture succinct definitions of individual manufacturing steps in a manufacturing system. They are used to...

WHERE DO WE START? GUIDANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION IN MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING

July 23, 2019

Author(s):

Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Katherine C. Morris, Jorge Arinez, Farhad Ameri, Jun Ni, Guoxian Xiao

Recent efforts in Smart Manufacturing (SM) have proven quite effective at elucidating system behavior using sensing systems, communications and computational...

Projects & Programs

Agri-Food Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Integration

The U.S. agriculture sector extends beyond the farm business to include a range of farm-related industries. The largest of these are food service and food...

Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis Program

Deliver measurement science, standards and protocols, and tools needed to design and analyze SMS based on a cyber-physical infrastructure for digital and...