Our Strategy and Approach to Systems Engineering Practice

Promote Reuse at all levels of Abstraction Abstract multiple disciplines to properly annotated information representations. This is the only way to allow communication among disciplines and multiple contextual views. Figure : Layers of Abstraction in Reuse A general-purpose information representation that can describe all aspects of system behavior and structure is currently unavailable. Hence, complete descriptions of engineering systems will employ multiple information abstractions. For example: At a high-level of abstraction. Unified Modeling Language (UML), Technical drawings. At a lower-level of abstraction. Three dimensional geometric models, engineering simulation packages ... etc.

Section 1-5: April, 2002.