Topic > Systems Engineering for Aircraft Manufacturing

Current technological advances evident today are critically important to the study of systems engineering. Systems engineering has redefined the traditional view of what constitutes the entire unit of a machine. Its influence has also extended to areas such as manufacturing processes and the management of people, tools and capital in the production process. To understand the focal point or basic idea of ​​this discipline, we need to look at the definition of “system”. A system is an entire unit made up of parts or other systems that work in concert to achieve a desired result. Systems that are units of a whole system are called subsystems. One should not only see a system in terms of hardware or machine design, but should also know that this also involves the aspect of human labor in relation to the economic production of a society, nation, business or industry (Department of Defense , 3). The ability to fly has interested humans for a long time. From Greek times, such as the infamous story of the flight of Daedalus in Greek mythology (Bonnefoy, Y., 88) to the time of the Wright Brothers, we can see that this area has exercised the creative genius of man. The progress in aircraft manufacturing since the first airplane made by the Wright brothers is enormous. Currently, aircraft consist of both those that require human effort to control and those that require little or no human effort to control (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1). Furthermore, there are different types of aircraft ranging from spacecraft to commercial airplanes to helicopters. All these machines have complex systems. Because of this complexity, systems engineering has become of paramount importance in their design....... half of the article ......l/pubscats/PubsCats/SEFGuide%2001-01.pdfHonor, EC (n.d.). “Understanding the Value of Systems Engineering.” pp 1-3. Retrieved from http://www.incose.org/secoe/0103/ValueSE-INCOSE04.pdfReferencesBonnefoy, Y. (1992). “Greek and Egyptian Mythologies” 88-90. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2007). "Aviation systems engineering" p. 1. School of Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pp 1. Retrieved from web.mit.edu/aeroastro/academics/grad/aircraftsystems.pdfDepartment of Defense (2001). “Fundamentals of systems engineering”. Virginia: Defense Acquisition University Press. Pp 3-7. Retrieved from http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/PubsCats/SEFGuide%2001-01.pdfHonor, E.C. (n.d.). “Understanding the Value of Systems Engineering.” pp 1-3. Retrieved from http://www.incose.org/secoe/0103/ValueSE-INCOSE04.pdf