KONGSBERG SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EVENT
USN Campus Kongsberg
KSEE 2013 Project Manager
Email: b.doviken(at)gmail.com
Bjornar is a bachelor student at HiBu, studying mechanical engineering with product development. He has current plans of pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Engineering.
Background: Bjornar studied during high school “Technical And Industrial Production” and “Industrial Technology”, before he began his course at HiBu.
Title: Validation risks of using development methodologies in a hierarchical fashion – When contracts meet architecture ownership.
Abstract: Design methodologies that are based on decomposition concepts are often perceived and used hierarchically. However, the validity of such use is not trivial, especially with regards validation activities. Enforcement of such methodologies at different levels of the system decomposition, blended with contractual obligations, often result in vanished responsibilities on validation activities, which threatens design validity and consequently integration success. This talk revisits the concept of validation from the perspectives of requirements ownership and contractual obligations. By clearly identifying who holds responsibility on validation activities by ‘methodology’ instead of merely by ‘contract’ risks related to system integration can be reduced.
Biography: Alejandro Salado is a systems engineer at Kayser-Threde GmbH (an OHB company). Experienced in the development of manned and unmanned space systems he is currently acting as verification manager for EnMAP’s primary payload and is leading an initiative to transform it into model-centricity. In addition, Alejandro is a doctoral candidate with the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology, for which he was awarded the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. His research interests include the generation and prioritization of requirements, the design of elegant systems, and the development of affordable space systems.
Title: Systems Integration: What Are We Waiting For?
Abstract: The common approach to integration is that it doesn’t really begin until the assembly of actual product. However, there are many examples of where earlier actions did or could have prevented serious problems and reduced the costs of late changes. Several examples of these incidents will be explored and the lessons learned noted.
Biography: Jim Armstrong is an Industry Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and has practiced systems engineering for 45 years performing various roles including configuration management, test, deployment, chief engineer, program manager, and program element monitor. For the last 20 years, he taught, consulted, and appraised systems engineering in industry and government. He has contributed to many of the systems engineering standards and models. He has been a member of INCOSE since its second year and has served in several local and international leadership positions as well as being a regular presenter at the International Symposia.
Hello Everyone!
As you know, the days to the 2013 event is flying by already, so here is some information for you. More updates to come!
KSEE 2013 is scheduled for Thursday June 13 (drinks at 15:00, start of first session 16:00), and Friday June 14 until 12:00. Friday June 14 in the afternoon is the HiBu graduation ceremony for bachelors and masters.
The topic for the year’s event is “Systems Integration, when the going really gets tough.”
During systems integration, most projects are hit by unexpected surprises resulting in delays and deviations of the specification. When the components are build together for the first time, then the implicit assumptions, missed interfaces, disappointing performance, unknown interference, and dismal reliability become visible.
All shortcomings of the definition and design process surface during systems integration. Unfortunately, limited knowledge and wisdom of the development team, in combination with time and resource constraints, will always result in some surprises in systems integration. The challenge for the specification and design team is to minimize them, the challenge for the integration team is to hit future problems as early as possible.
We will add updates as they come for KSEE 2013.
Hope to see you all there for an amazing event!
Title:
Toolbox to ensure control of the details to fulfill system requirements.
Abstract:
The presentation will provide a broad overview of which tools and processes FMC uses in a project to ensure that all technical requirements are understood and communicated to the project organization and subcontractors, how the maturity of the technology and technical solutions are assessed and quantified to form the background for establishing the technology qualification program, how to ensure quality outcome from engineering in all phases of the projects and the importance of verification testing prior to delivery of the products. The presentation will use examples from the words largest subsea project, the Angola block 17 Pazflor project.
Biography:
Tom Eddy Johansen is Cheif Engineer Total Projects at FMC Technologies. He has 30 years of experience from the Subsea industry related to engineering, engineering management and project management.
Industrial/mechanical engineering HIVe (Horten) 1981
Petroleum/marine engineering HiN (Narvik) 1982
Title:
Systems engineering in advanced missiles design
Abstract:
Modern state-of-the-art missiles are highly sophisticated and involves a number of engineering disiplines. The presentation will focus on the complex relationships between the disiplines and systems engineering in an early stage of the development. Examples will be given to show how top level requirements spread down to the design of sub-systems and the complexity of the work in a system design phase. Furthermore, examples of prototype testing to achieve technical confidence in the system will be given.
Biography:
Alf Gudleik Dale has a master degree in mechanical engineering from The Norwegian Institute of Technology. He has over 20 years experience from development and management of missile projects. He is a senior system engineer in Kongsberg Defence Systems and currently holds the position as project manager for the norwegian Joint Strike Missile.
Title:
Graphical CONOPS – A Strategy to Improve Stakeholder/Designer Shared Understanding
Abstract:
Gaming and immersive virtual environments provide a new way to engage stakeholders during early stages of Systems Engineering lifecycle to help them reach a common mental model of the concept of operations. A weak link in the Systems Engineering lifecycle is often the connection between what the users need and what the system developers think the users need, together with a shared understanding of the operational environment and associated constraints and dependencies. The current system development environment calls for user needs to be specified in a Concept of Operations (CONOPS) document, which provides a foundation of future system capabilities and describes typical scenarios that it will encounter. Given the size and complexity of today’s systems, CONOPS development can take considerable time and effort, which can cause its production to be incomplete and insufficient. This introduces misunderstanding and miscommunication early in the Systems Engineering lifecycle. This talk will cover research underway to improve this shared understanding through the fusion of 3D gaming technology and Storyboarding.
Biography:
Dr. Cloutier has over twenty years of industry experience, and is associate professor of systems engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in System Architecture Patterns, OO systems engineering, architecting and systems modeling with UML & SysML, and modeling systems of systems
Specialties
Systems Engineering/Systems Architecture
System modeling
DoDAF, UML/SysML
Project/Program Management
Title:
Knowledge Capture, Cross Boundary Communication and Early Validation with Dynamic A3 Architectures
Abstract:
Understanding and extracting systems information is a time consuming, demanding and expensive process. Complicating factors are cross-boundary communication methods and tools. We combine an informal and formal systems engineering method; Lean manufacturing principles and Model Based systems Engineering (MBSE) resulting in Dynamic A3 architecture. Dynamic A3 Architecture is a hierarchy of overviews from super-system to sub-system that can be navigated through active links. The method was applied to a lube oil system of a gas turbine package. We found that Dynamic A3 Architecture can ease internal and cross boundary communication, train new employees, facilitate knowledge capture, and share common understanding of the “system of interest”. A functional sequence diagram, which is a hybrid of a state and functional diagram, can assist in early validation of process applications
Biography:
Vickram Singh received his Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with specialization in aeronautical engineering from University of Agder in 2009. He has been working in the KG2-3G development team since 2009, and received his dual Master’s degree in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and Buskerud University College in 2012
