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MF2011 Systems Engineering 9.0 credits

Systemkonstruktion

Systems engineering requires a holistic view and multidisciplinary cooperation and a systematic approach.

Desired effects, such as long life, small energy losses and good cooling, and undesired effects, such as high cost, high weight, large deformations, vibrations and noise are two types of technical effects that are intimately related to most mechanical and electromechanical systems. An optimal technical design can be defined as the design that in the best possible way maximizes the most important desired effects and/or minimizes the most dominant undesired effects. For a design to be optimal from customer, as well as society and enterprise perspectives it must also possess many other important properties despite from purely technical properties. Development and design of advanced technical systems prerequisites a good treatment of technical complexity and uncertainty and efficient cooperation between individuals and groups of individuals with different types of competence. Collaborative tools are tools designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals. Collaborative computer based tools, such as integrated CAD and CAE software, is the basis for computer supported collaborative engineering work.

  • Educational level

    Second cycle

  • Academic level (A-D)

    D

  • Subject area

  • Grade scale

    A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Course offerings

Spring 13 for programme students

Spring 14 for programme students

Learning outcomes

The main goal is that the students shall develop their capabilities to treat systems engineering from a holistic and lifecycle perspective (interaction with the environment, existing and future customer needs and demands, the technological development, etc.). Further more, the course aims at that the students shall acquire a thorough knowledge of available methods and frameworks for product modeling (CAD), product data management (PDM), and geometry-based simulations (CAE), as well as industrially relevant strategies and methods for integrated management of all product information during the products entire lifecycle, i.e. product lifecycle management (PLM).

A student that has completed the course shall:

  • be able to integrate and apply component- and tribological knowledge to systems engineering;
  • be able to describe common models for planning and executing systems engineering;
  • have planned and performed a distributed collaborative technical design project with the support from a master CAD-model and related simulation models;
  • have applied the FBS method to systematic funktion analysis and synthesis;
  • have performed a DSM-based analysis of the architecture of a complex product and identified module candidates with the MFD tool;
  • be able to describe the most industrially relevant product model standards and neutral formats that enable collaborative engineering, and be able to discuss their pros and cons;
  • have performed an integrated FEM- and MBS-simulation;
  • have performed a qualitative as well as a quantitative risk analysis with the aid of Fault-Tree Analysis (FTA) and Failure-Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA);
  • be able to elaborate on the business motives for using PDM-, PLM-, CAD- and CAE-in technical development and engineering;
  • be able to describe the pros and cons for the most important formats and standards for product data and models;

Course main content

The course is based on an analysis and redesign scenario for an existing technical system. Topics treated are:

  • the system development process and planning – V-model, Stage-gate model, network planning, Gantt-scheme;
  • requirements specification (end user-, corporate-, regulatory- and societal requirements);
  • the active environment and environmental impact;
  • integration of components and interfaces between components;
  • manufacturing, assembly, and service aspects;
  • system architecture (integrated/modular) and methods, tools and frameworks for systems engineering (QFD,DfX,DSM,MFD).
  • reliability engineering, design aspects of reliability and methodologies such as FTA anad FMEA;
  • system dynamics and related phenomena and mechanisms, as well as constructive countermeasures;
  • systems modeling and simulation, static and dynamic substructuring;
  • System verification and validation;
  • PLM (PDM and CAE) - frameworks, standards, and tools for collaborative engineering

Computer exercises

Project assignments

Written examination

Eligibility

At least 60 credits and

MF1013/MF1039/MF1044/4F1813, MF1015/4F1815, MF101X/MF102X/MF104X/MF111X/MF112X/MF114X/MF116X/MF1025/MF1026

Masterstudents: TIPUM/TIPDM/TAEEM och MF2006

Prerequisites

The course is at an advanced level, and prerequisites are the basic courses Design and Product Realization (DoP) B, Product Realization for M, or Product Realization for T, and one of the Project Courses in Machine Design, Integrated Product Development, or Industrial Design.

Literature

Hand-outs of scientific articles on current research in the field.

Examination

  • INL1 - Assignment, 6.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
  • TEN1 - Examination, 3.0 credits, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Requirements for final grade

Final grading requires passed exercises and project assignments (INL1;6hp) and passed written examination (TEN1;3hp).

Offered by

ITM/Machine Design

Contact

Ulf Sellgren, 08-790 73 87, ulfs@md.kth.se

Examiner

Ulf L Sellgren <ulfse@kth.se>

Supplementary information

Replaces 4F1911

Version

Course plan valid from: Spring 11.
Examination information valid from: Autumn 07.