A comprehensive basis for systems engineering theory

PurposeThe main components of resiliency, including resilience capacities, resilience activities and resilience measures, are identified, extracted and redefined by designing their ontologies. The integrated model is developed by adapting the PDCA (plan, do, check and act) model to resilience management and implementing the developed concepts in the model.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses systems theory to define the main concepts discussed in the literature on resilience. This study then uses systems engineering theory and a resource-based view of the firm to develop an integrated framework to demonstrate how a resilient firm operates.FindingsThe revised terminologies and the integrated model address the current theoretical issues in the literature, and they also provide a reference model for practical implementation of resilience management at the firm level. Also, the integrated model addresses the role of innovation in resilience management.Originality/valueThe study examines the concept of resilience form a quality perspective and also examines how resilience and innovation are related.

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Policy Implications of Changes in Stakeholder Consultation

Tethered Fates ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190903831.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 133-162

Author(s):

Shareen Hertel

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Systems Engineering ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Secondary Source ◽

Observation Data ◽

Stakeholder Consultation ◽

Business And Human Rights ◽

Engineering Theory ◽

Multi Stakeholder

Chapter 6 assesses the prospects for policy reform in the business and human rights field, pointing to the emergence of a worker-driven social responsibility (WSR) model distinct from conventional multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSI). The chapter compares the two approaches, analyzes their relative strengths, and argues for pragmatic yet bold new approaches to addressing human rights violations and community members’ right to remedy in the context of light manufacturing. The chapter draws on original participant observation data from a 2017 international conference on these themes, along with primary and secondary source data on emerging methods of community engagement underway in key business sectors within the United States, Bangladesh, and several other settings. It helps place the Dominican cases and the large-N data explored in other chapters in a broader policy framework, drawing special insights from systems engineering theory on problem-solving in failure-prone settings.

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A Framework to Integration Development Process

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.44-46.209 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 44-46 ◽

pp. 209-214

Author(s):

Jie Mi

Keyword(s):

Complex Systems ◽

Systems Engineering ◽

Development Process ◽

Product Development Process ◽

Engineering Process ◽

Context Model ◽

Product Model ◽

Integrated Development ◽

Engineering Theory ◽

Evolutional Process

Based on systems engineering theory, complex systems development process is discussed. The integrated model is built, in which the integration methods are introduced. The product development process is not only a continuously evolutional process, but also an improvement process of product model. A conceptual framework for integrated development is proposed. Furthermore, building a full context model to cover life cycle is to leverage the deployment of system engineering process. The result in this paper has a wider implication upon industrial integrated development for complex systems.

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Fuzzy systems engineering: theory and practice

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.43-2823 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 43 (05) ◽

pp. 43-2823-43-2823

Keyword(s):

Systems Engineering ◽

Fuzzy Systems ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Engineering Theory

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Network Methods in Engineering

Volume 3: Design; Tribology; Education ◽

10.1115/esda2008-59015 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Offer Shai ◽

Kenneth Preiss

Keyword(s):

Graph Theory ◽

Systems Engineering ◽

Solid Mechanics ◽

Main Idea ◽

Mathematical Representation ◽

Network Graph ◽

Electric Circuits ◽

Engineering Theory ◽

Network Methods ◽

Engineered Systems

This paper reviews the main idea underlying the use of network graph theory for analysis or for design of physical engineered systems. A physical engineered system is a system built from physical components, as compared with a system built only from symbols or software. The term includes structures, mechanisms, electric circuits and more. Different engineered systems may be represented as the same graph, or as graphs that show a known mathematical relationship between them. We then have a single mathematical representation that is applicable to more than one engineered system. The properties of the graph, as known from graph theory, are applicable to all the engineered systems in domains that match that graph. The graph can be regarded as a generalized representation suitable for various engineered systems. Engineering theory is commonly divided into domains, solid mechanics, mechanisms, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and more. When dealing with engineered systems using the language and mathematical formality of graph theory such divisions become unnecessary. Network graph theory can apply similar or even identical theory to many engineering domains.

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