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Combat Product Complexity with Systems Engineering

PART ONE

The Challenge

Dealing effectively with increasedproduct complexities & demands?

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What we‘ve learned from customers and research can help you.

Here´s what we have to share.

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Customers require a broader range and selection of products

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What customers want…

Products that are better, cheaper,

and faster

Which today include an exponentially increasing amount of software

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As well as, high levels of connectivity

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With more…Intelligent products

and the Internet-of-Things

with many more competitive pressures

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and with it…Wider and deeper

market reach

Therefore, leading to increased organizational complexity

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Companies needing to expand horizons … more mergers &

acquisitions

And inevitably more and stringent regulatory burdens

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Federally mandated automotive recalls (NHTSA history): • 390 million cars, trucks,

buses, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, mopeds

• 66 million pieces of automotive equipment

• 42 million child safety seats

The negative impact of COMPLEXITY

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Collaboration is tough without well-defined processes and tools

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Related design artifacts can´t be reused across product lines which• Limits design reuse• Creates inconsistencies in product design• Introduces quality issues creating products that are more difficult & costly to maintain• Increases errors & redundancies because of lack of standardization with increased engineering,

manufacturing and servicing costs

Disjointed processes make early design validation impossible, leading to costly late stage rework

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AND THEN...

Complete product designs are not manufactured on time, affecting time-to-market and

lost market opportunities

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If this is your experience, don´t despair

THERE IS A SOLUTION.Watch out for Part 2.

For more insights take a look at our Systems Engineering Resource Center.

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