The story of SESE 2017 where we applied Systems Engineering to prepare the event & to provide added value services to attendees. The presentation of the activities of the 3 chapters: France, Italy, Spain.
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Jean-Claude Roussel (Director for the sector Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Mr. Jean-Claude Roussel is a Senior Expert in Systems Engineering at Airbus Group Innovations in charge of Research Projets on Systems Engineering with 32 years experience in different Aerospace Programs. He is Certified Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and has been elected Director for the sector Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) on the INCOSE for the period Jan 2014-Jan 2017.
From 2001 to 2009 Jean-Claude was in charge of Airbus Systems Engineering where he developed and deployed the Policy for Systems Engineering, called Requirement Based Engineering (RBE).From 1995 to 2001, he was in charge of Project Management within Airbus and wrote the directive for Aircraft Project Management while setting-up the related components for A380 Program.
From 1988 to 1995, he was dedicated to Configuration Management and defined the CM Plan for aircraft (A400M, VLCT, A330/A340) and the Hermes Space Vehicle for the ESA Space Program.His career began at Airbus in 1981 by developing Product Data Management application and data exchange standard for CAD/CAM tools.
He has been a member of INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) since 2001 where he took an active role in the Requirements Working Group, extending it to European members. He was President of AFIS (Association Française d’Ingénierie Systeme, the French INCOSE Chapter) in 2007 and 2008, and received the Gold Circle Award of INCOSE. Jean-Claude is member and co-author of the BKCASE project (Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineerin) launched in Dec 2009.
He was appointed Deputy Technical Director of INCOSE in March 2010 and then Technical Director of INCOSE from Jan 2011 till Jan 2013 (for a 2 years mandate). He is a graduated Engineer (1980) from Polytech Lille.
Mr. Jean-Luc Garnier is Systems Engineering and Architecting Director within the Thales Technical Directorate. His domain of expertise is real-time distributed systems. He has an engineer degree in computer science from INSA (French Institute of Applied Science). From 1984 to 1999, he had been software engineer and expert in consulting companies, mainly in compilers, operating systems and real-time telecoms developments. He joined Thales in 2000 as system architect, successively in Integrated Modular Avionics, Electronic Warfare and Network Centric Warfare. He teaches System Architecting at the Thales University and in the Master program in Design & Management of Complex Information Systems (COMASIC) of The French Ecole Polytechnique,. He is also chairman of the 3S-AI (System of System and Service – Architecting and Engineering) Technical Committee of AFIS (French Chapter of INCOSE).
Mr. Lucio TIRONE is Technical Director at Aster S.p.A., he has over 15 years of field experience, the first half of which spent consolidating his Electromagnetic background, in the development of object oriented software for the computation of e.m. propagation in complex urban/non-urban environments. Since then he has been involved in Systems Engineering activities for the analysis, design, implementation and validation of large technological projects in the Defense, Aerospace and Transport sectors. Certified INCOSE CSEP since 2012, and OCSMP since 2015, he is currently President of the Italian Association of Systems Engineering - INCOSE Italia Chapter.
Dr. Anabel Fraga is a Computer Engineering professional; she obtained her degree in the Simon Bolívar University. Previous to set aside in the academic work, she committed her efforts in the industry as UNIX Administrator (HP-UX, Digital Unix, and so forth), Application Administrator (SICAP, Comptel technology for Telecom companies), Windows Administrator, Project Management and Consultancy. She obtained the E-commerce and Networking Msc. in the Carlos III University of Madrid. She presented her PhD thesis in Computer Science in the Carlos III University of Madrid at the Knowledge Reuse Research Group. Her central areas of research are: Software Architecture, Information Engineering, Knowledge Management, ITIL/ISO20000 and Reuse; but she is also interested in ethics, innovative methods of learning for supporting new software architects and the improvement of the CS Curriculum. She is professor of Software/Systems engineering, Information/Knowledge Engineering and Programming in Carlos III University of Madrid. She is member of ACM CSTA, INCOSE and IASA, and she is one of the leaders of the IASA Chapter of Madrid.
Nowadays MBSE is enabled by Systems Modeling Language (SysML). However, SysML is neither an architecture framework nor a method. This opens discussions of how to structure the model, what views to build, which artifacts to deliver and in what sequence. Every company deals with this issue differently. Organizations not complying with the standardized approach end up having differently structured models with different set of views. It results in the loss of capability to inter-exchange, loss of capability to communicate with other teams, overhead in tool customization, and specific trainings need. Moreover, the models become impossible to integrate and reuse.
In this session, a framework for MBSE called MagicGrid is used. The framework consists of viewpoints and aspects organized in a grid view, where each cell is an artifact to deliver in the systems engineering process. It is based on existing studies in the field and real-life findings in managing models for organizations from different systems engineering domains. Session is followed by a real world examples in the Cameo Systems Modeler tool.
Mr. Carmelo Tommasi is Commercial Director of No Magic in Italia and pioneer in applying SysML to System Engineering, MBSE, Requirement Management, Design, Verification/Validation and Traceability.
Carmelo has 30+ years of Software Multinational working experience, founded and managed the Italian Subsidiaries of Harris EDA/Xynetix, Telelogic, Artisan Software Tools, Atego, etc. Carmelo introduced the MBSE methodology in several Italian Army, Air Force and Navy projects, in addition to mentoring the adoption of such technology at major Finmeccanica/Leonardo companies.
He gives regularly training and consulting on MBSE and avionic certification and is teacher in University Masters on System Engineering.
You have heard about "Systems Engineering" but you are not aware of it. This presentation is for all public from expert to non experts to understand the value and the concepts.
Carlo Leardi graduated 1989 in electronic engineering in Genova Italy. His professional background starts with quality assurance responsibility evolving in the last years to full verification, validation and testing commitment within complex systems development deployment projects in the following areas: automotive, freight railways and packaging industry. As a passion before and today as a full job, he is dealing with Quantitative Systems Engineering on a day-to-day application and coaching of a full range of statistical and simulation methodologies supporting the decisional process. He published several articles in Engineering and Systems Engineering journals. He is one of the founders and past President of the INCOSE Italian Chapter and of AISE. He teaches in the Systems Engineering Masters in Tor Vergata and ForteMare in La Spezia.
Dr. Anabel Fraga is a Computer Engineering professional; she obtained her degree in the Simon Bolívar University. Previous to set aside in the academic work, she committed her efforts in the industry as UNIX Administrator (HP-UX, Digital Unix, and so forth), Application Administrator (SICAP, Comptel technology for Telecom companies), Windows Administrator, Project Management and Consultancy. She obtained the E-commerce and Networking Msc. in the Carlos III University of Madrid. She presented her PhD thesis in Computer Science in the Carlos III University of Madrid at the Knowledge Reuse Research Group. Her central areas of research are: Software Architecture, Information Engineering, Knowledge Management, ITIL/ISO20000 and Reuse; but she is also interested in ethics, innovative methods of learning for supporting new software architects and the improvement of the CS Curriculum. She is professor of Software/Systems engineering, Information/Knowledge Engineering and Programming in Carlos III University of Madrid. She is member of ACM CSTA, INCOSE and IASA, and she is one of the leaders of the IASA Chapter of Madrid.
The long lasting close interaction between modeling and simulation (M&S) and systems engineering disciplines is leading to a more integrative approach, referred to as M&S-based systems engineering. It emphasizes the extensive use of M&S throughout the life cycle of systems engineering efforts. The INCOSE Handbook on Systems Engineering introduces M&S as one of the methods that cut across the SE processes, along with well-known methods such as Model-Based Systems Engineering and Agile Systems Engineering. Technical processes may particularly benefit from the adoption of M&S throughout the whole system lifecycle, from business analysis and system requirements, down to design, implementation, operation and evolution. Despite the relevant role played by M&S-based systems engineering, its effective adoption is still limited, mainly because the use of M&S frameworks and standards requires significant and specific technical skills system engineers are usually not familiar with, as well as because M&S activities are effort- and time-demanding and can be error-prone. The talk introduces effective and efficient approaches that enable system designers to exploit the full potential of M&S without incurring in the mentioned limitations. Specifically, the talk addresses a promising solution recently emerged from the combined use of model-driven engineering (MDE) and Modeling & Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) approaches, which allow systems managers to reduce both the effort of M&S activities and the costs associated with establishing and maintaining a dedicated execution infrastructure.
Prof. Andrea D’Ambrogio is associate professor of computer science at the Department of Enterprise Engineering of the University of Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy) and director of the post graduate Master degree in "Systems Engineering". Andrea D'Ambrogio's research interests are in the systems and software engineering field, specifically in the areas of system performance and dependability engineering, model-driven systems and software engineering, business process management, and distributed simulation. In such areas he has participated to several projects at both European and overseas level and has authored more than 100 journal/conference papers. He has served as general chair, program chair and/or member of the program committee of various international conferences, among which IEEE WETICE, SCS SpringSim, SCS SummerSim, IEEE/ACM PADS, IEEE/ACM DS-RT and INFORMS/ACM Winter Simulation Conference. He started the IEEE International Workshop on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (CoMetS) in 2010 and the SCS International Symposium on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering (Mod4Sim) in 2011. Andrea D'Ambrogio is associate editor of the Transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SIMULATION journal) and has been member of the editorial board of the Simulation Practice and Theory (SIMPAT) journal. He is member of the management committee of the ICT COST Action on “Multi Paradigm Modelling for Cyber Physical Systems” (MPM4CPS), and member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, SCS and INCOSE.
The configuration management practices along with fine-grained components enable multi-stream development, artifact reuse and linking to artifacts across a project. This session explains the importance of configuration management practices applied to requirements engineering to manage global or local configurations with components In order to enable a real reuse of assets and documents across the development lifecycle making versions and variants easier to manage.
Mr. Enrico Mancin is a 15 years SW Engineer, Project Manager and Chief Technical Architect for Italian Software Consultant companies. Enrico specialised in architecting and providing end-to-end industrial solutions in addition to team management best practices.
5 Years at Rational Software and IBM. At Rational, Enrico led the Italian Technical Team and within IBM he has had a number of different roles associated to Rational Solutions.
For the past 8 years at Telelogic AB and IBM. Enrico led Pre-sales and Post-sales technical team and he had been part of European Rational Tiger Team for Systems Solutions, specialising in Continuous Engineering, MBSE, Functional Safety and finally, as Continuous Engineering Tech Lead, specialising in IBM Watson IoT Platform Solutions. Today he is the Europe IoT4I Lead Architect and the Italy CE Tech Lead.
Latest times have seen the emergence of Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) as a complete methodology to address the challenge of unifying the techniques, methods and tools to support the whole specification process of a system around the application of models (conceptual design, system requirements, design, analysis, verification or validation, etc.). In order to enable a collaborative MBSE through IT systems, different initiatives, frameworks, services and languages such as the ISO 10303 (STEP), the SysML or UML languages or the OASIS OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) initiative can be found. Thus, while MBSE represents an ideal approach to develop complex systems, OSLC can be seen as a key enabler to equip engineering tools with the ability of exchanging data and information under common data and communication protocols. In this manner, it is possible to tackle critical activities that require this holistic view of a system such as system traceability.
Authors present here a novel but in-use approach to access any system artifact content through OSLC, to represent such contents under a common representation language and to provide an operation for automatically discovery of traceability links between requirements and models. More specifically, this presentation will show how to access: 1) system requirements stored in different requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS, PTC Integrity, etc. and 2) system models represented in the SysML, FMI/FMU and Modelica languages and designed in tools such as Rhapsody, MagicDraw, Simulink, Papyrus, etc., and how to represent and automatically discover traceability links between this two types of artifacts: requirements and system models.
This work is framed in the wider challenges the company Procter and Gamble attempts to solve in its MBSE approach for the next years with the collaboration of Modelon and The Reuse Company.
Mr. Jose Fuentes received his degree in Computer Science in Carlos III University of Madrid (2003). Now, he’s CCO at The REUSE Company, accountable of the definition of Requirements Quality Suite. For many years he has been involved in the definition of tools, techniques and methodologies aimed to increase the quality and the reusability of both software and system engineering projects. Both working for The REUSE Company, but also as an Associate Teacher at University Carlos III of Madrid, he has leaded different workpackages in different European projects such as CRYSTAL or AUTOSoft. He’s member of the Spanish Chapter of INCOSE.
Systems Engineering is about the elicitation of needs until the definition of a physical architecture. This presentation explains the importance of defining a multi-disciplines architecture and to transition to disciplines architectures (Electronic, Electrical...) in order to establish a complete and consistent product design.
Four years of primary research by INCOSE, PMI, and MIT has resulted in a framework and numerous insights for improving program performance by integrating the program management and systems engineering disciplines in the program. Integration reflects an organization’s ability to combine program management and systems engineering practices, tools and techniques, experience, and knowledge in a collaborative and systematic approach in order to be more effective in complex program development environments. In the study, programs that showed higher levels of integration along the dimensions in the framework performed better than those that did not. Examples and case studies are used to show how the elements of the framework function in actual programs. The complete findings of the study and additional contributed insights are captured in the new book Integrating Program Management and Systems Engineering: Methods, Tools, and Organizational Systems for Improving Performance.
Davide Fierro, is the Head of INAF ’s “Project Engineering”. He has direct roles in various international programs such as SKA , of wich he is the Program Manager of
the overall INAF’s participation. He has been involved in large astrophysics technology projects, with roles of PM/SE, for
about 20 years. He collaborates with various Universities and is committed in dissemination activities of SE/PM
methodologies. He is member of the Board of INCOSE Italy chapter and of the board of AFCEA Rome. He is also member
of the “INCOSE Institute for Technical Leadership Development Program” and associate teacher of ISIPM. In
2009 he was appointed as "Project Controller of National Projects" at INAF’s “Scientific Directorate”.
He got his first relevant job in 1997 as Deputy PM of the VST project followed by the “VST AIV Manager” role, for which he spent
about two years at ESO Paranal Observatory, Chile. He raduated in Mechanical Engineering from University of
Naples, where he also got the PhD in Industrial/Management Engineering. He then continued his postPhD studies first at
LUISS Business School and then at the SDA Bocconi School of Management.
Sergio Funtó. During my working life I have gained the following skills:
Management of different types of project with different sizes.
Project management processes analysis and definition.
Quality standard for space and defence systems/software development.
Design of Command and Control System with different capabilities and functionalities as threat evaluation/management, mission planning against different kinds of threat, force operation, logistics.
Integration of complex software systems.
Good knowledge of different types of communication links for defence applications (ATDL-1, Link11, Link16, ADatP-3).
Management of work packages activities within research project founding by European Commission
Dr. Eric Rebentisch, Ph.D. is a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center. There he leads and advises research projects, including “Creating High Performing Engineering Programs: Making Lean Thinking Part of the Program Management DNA”, “Production in the Innovation Economy: How to Create Excellence Through Competition and Benchmarking in the U.S. Shipbuilding and Defense Industry”, and “Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Enterprise Stakeholder Analysis”.
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He is co-author of the book Lean Enterprise Value and numerous other publications. At MIT he has taught courses in research methods and Lean/Six-sigma processes. He has been a principal in developing and deploying short courses at LAI and MIT, including the Lean Enterprise Value (LEV) and Lean Enterprise Product Development (LEPD). Both LEV and LEPD were developed with Dr. Hugh McManus and have been used widely in the aerospace industry to train managers and engineers lean enterprise principles and practices and to facilitate improvement initiatives.
He received a doctorate in the Management of Technological Innovation from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master’s degree in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Prior to academia, he worked in the aircraft industry as a propulsion engineer.
Mr. Marvin Nelson: I am a 32-year veteran of the cable telecommunications industry working as both an industry practitioner in field operations and engineering and for the technical association representing the engineering community in cable telecommunications. I am known for my passion for operational excellence through the development of new revenue opportunities while at the same time improving processes and procedures that maximize value for the customer and minimize expense of operations.
I have served for the last 20 years as senior vice president, strategic initiatives and vice president, professional development at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), a non-profit professional organization serving approximately 14,000 members worldwide. During this time I worked directly with the Board of Directors and its standing committees developing strategic plans, improving governance and growing products and services for the Society’s engineering members. I twice served as interim President/CEO while the Board conducted a national search to fill the position.
I hold a bachelor of arts degree in organizational management and an MBA from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa. I am credentialed as a Broadband Communications Technician (BCT) and Broadband Communications Engineer (BCE) since 1990 and a Certified Association Executive (CAE) since 2006.
Specialties: Executive Management, Operations Management, Strategic Planning, Non-Profit Governance, Budget Management, Management Dashboard Implementation, Revenue Enhancement, Best Practice Methods Documentation, Client Relations, Market/Trend Analysis, and Technology Education Development and Delivery.
Mr. Randall C. Iliff has over 30 years experience with developmental projects ranging from a few thousand to over a billion dollars, and has participated in all phases of project execution from proposal to close out. He is a seasoned large-project PM, and has managed a wide variety of developmental efforts in aerospace and purely commercial settings. That experience, as well as individual research, has resulted in unique insight on how to effectively run commercial sector developmental projects. Mr. Iliff is currently Vice President of InSight at Bjorksten | bit7, providing clients with carefully tailored consulting, analysis, and training services.
He holds a BS in Engineering / Industrial Design from Michigan State University, an MS in Systems Management, Research and Development from the University of Southern California, and received Honorary Fellow appointment at the University of Wisconsin when he served as the Systems Engineering Manager for the ICECUBE project. Mr. Iliff is a charter member of the International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE), founder / prior Chairman of the INCOSE Commercial Practices Working Group, and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).
A frequent speaker, Mr. Iliff has developed and conducted thousands of hours of training covering all aspects of product development, particularly systems engineering and project management excellence. He is the developer, subject matter expert and master instructor for several PMI accredited courses conducted by Motorola. He has spoken before groups as large as 1,200 people and is a frequent presenter at conferences and professional meetings
