Improving System Design Processes: Getting the most from System Modeling and Analysis

This report details the study’s findings and provides insights into the benefits and advantages of mature systems engineering, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and systems analysis approaches. The report also explores the impact of integrating these approaches. The publication contains three sections:

• Drivers of Systems Engineering Adoption: This section explores the factors driving companies to adopt systems engineering solutions and discusses the reasons that such initiatives appeal to today’s organizations.
• Benchmarking Systems Engineering Initiatives: This section details the benchmarking methodology used to separate respondents into groups and contrasts the maturity of their systems engineering adoption efforts.
• Strategies and Tactics of the Most Progressive: This section compares the systems engineering and systems analysis practices and solutions of the most progressive respondents to those of their moderately and least progressive peers, explores the shortcomings of traditional solutions, explains the appeal of utilizing systems modeling and systems analysis, and explores the advantages of integrating those approaches.

Many companies are pursuing systems engineering solutions to address their product design and development challenges, and this report offers clear insight into how they can derive value from such investments.