The Integration Problem

The Integration Problem Achieving the listed objectives for comprehensive systems engineering support requires integration of the following elements: The systems engineering model The evolving tools that support the systems engineering effort Search tools Presentation tools Tools to support dependency tracing Automatic budget checkers, and design verification tools The evolving tools that support specialized disciplines CAD tools Project planning tools Special modeling tools (Mechanichal analysis, Thermal analysis etc) Legacy documentation and models In addition, the integration has to occur within the IT infrastructure of the organizations that support the engineering effort. The monolithic approach that is represented by tools such as Rational Rose's software engineering tools is not likely to be successful for more general Systems Engineering support Web based technologies that use distributed co-operative organization rather than strong centralized control seem to be a much better match.