Systems Engineering for Aircraft Manufacturing

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The current technological advances that are apparent today are of paramount importance to the study of Systems Engineering. Systems engineering has redefined the traditional view of what makes up an entire unit of a machine. Its influence has also permeated into such areas as manufacturing processes and the management of people, tools and capital in the process of manufacturing. To understand the focal point or basic idea of this discipline, one should look at the definition of a “system”. A system is an entire unit that is made of parts or other systems, which work in concert to achieve a desired output. Systems that are units of an entire system are termed as sub-systems. One should not view a system only in terms of hardware or in a machine design aspect, but should also know that also entail the aspect of human labour in relation to the economic output of a society, nation, firm or industry (Department of Defence, 3).

The power of flight has been of interest to Man for a very long time. From Grecian times such as the infamous story of Daedalus flight in Greek Mythology (Bonnefoy, Y., 88) up to the time of the Wright brothers, we can see that this area has exercised man’s creative genius. The advances in aircraft manufacturing since the first airplane made by the Wright brothers are tremendous. Presently, aircraft consists of both those that require human effort to control to those that require little or no human effort to control (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1). In addition, there are different types of aircraft ranging from space vehicles, commercial aircraft to the helicopter. All these machines have complex systems. Due to this complexity, systems engineering has become of paramount importance in their design.
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Honor, E. C. (n.d). “Understanding the Value of Systems Engineering”. pp 1-3. Retrieved from http://www.incose.org/secoe/0103/ValueSE-INCOSE04.pdf

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Bonnefoy, Y. (1992). “Greek and Egyptian Mythologies” 88-90. Chicago:University of Chicago Press.

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2007). ”Aircraft Systems Engineering” p. 1. School of Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pp 1. Retrieved from web.mit.edu/aeroastro/academics/grad/aircraftsystems.pdf

Department of Defence (2001). “Systems Engineering Fundamentals”. Virginia:Defense Acquisition University Press. Pp 3-7. Retrieved from http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/PubsCats/SEFGuide%2001-01.pdf

Honor, E. C. (n.d). “Understanding the Value of Systems Engineering”. pp 1-3. Retrieved from http://www.incose.org/secoe/0103/ValueSE-INCOSE04.pdf

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