Overview of systems engineering

The systems engineering discipline is a method of managing the design of complex, multi-domain engineering products throughout the life cycle of a product development project.

It allows you to identify the necessary information to make decisions about:

• When product development begins.
• What requirements are defined.
• When architecture decisions are made.
• What interfaces are defined.
• How globally optimized decisions are made.
• What requirements, assemblies, and components can be reused.

Teamcenter Systems Engineering allows you to:

• Develop requirement structures and create functional and logical architectures for the product design.
• Define interfaces between design elements in functional and logical architectures, and understand the relationships between them.
• Create traceability between requirements and functional, logical, and physical architectures.
• Support formal Systems Engineering processes and standards such as IEEE 1220, ISO 15288, EIA 632, and INCOSE.
• Support ad hoc systems engineering and product development activities that do not conform to a formal standard.