22 May 2024 4 minutes The future of system engineering: What is MBSE and why do we need models? In this new blog series, we’ll explain the principles of MBSE and how you can start using it, beginning with an overview. Blog Concurrent Design Engineering MBSE
3 January 2024 8 minutes Why Space Weather Presents a Bigger Threat Than Ever – and How to Prepare Simon Machin from the UK Met Office explains why improving our resilience to space weather is vital. Blog Science Space
20 September 2023 7 minutes 11 Ways to Ensure Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design and Collaborative Engineering Concurrent design sessions bring together the client, experts from various domains and system engineers to develop an integral, consisten... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
22 August 2023 4 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 11 – Avoiding Bias in Decision-Making 11. Avoiding bias in decision-making A final challenge that we face when supporting rigour and quality in concurrent design is how to max... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
16 August 2023 4 minutes Quantum Technology – The Marvel That Will Secure Our Digital Society In the realm of cutting-edge technology, quantum computing has emerged as both a marvel and a concern. The appeal of ‘quantum leaps’ in p... Blog Quantum Security
20 July 2023 6 minutes Why Radiation is a Problem for Space Exploration – and How to Tackle It How mission scientists and engineers tackle the challenges of space radiation for space exploration missions Blog Engineering Science Space
18 July 2023 4 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 10 – How to Manage Trade-offs and Infeasible Aspects 10. How to manage trade-offs and infeasible aspects In the early design phase of a complex project, many details are still undecided and ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
21 June 2023 5 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 9 – How to Manage the Interfaces Between Subsystems 9. How to Manage the Interfaces Between Subsystems When designing complex systems, one area that is good to explore as early as possible ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
20 June 2023 4 minutes Space Mission Ground Segments: A Serious Playground for New Technologies Gone are the days when space mission ground segments were perceived as the least interesting part of space infrastructure. Instead, for t... AI Blog Concurrent Design Engineering Security Space
25 May 2023 5 minutes How to Embrace AI and Machine Learning Contrary to what you might think from recent media coverage, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been around for ... AI Blog Concurrent Design Earth Observation Engineering Security
18 May 2023 5 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 8 – Create shared understanding without looking stupid 8. Create shared understanding without looking stupid When talking about complex systems in concurrent design sessions, people will inevi... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
3 May 2023 5 minutes How to grow a sustainable business through innovation in a time of global change The world around us is changing rapidly, driven and enforced by disruptive events. These include the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change an... AI Blog Concurrent Design Data Engineering Quantum Security Space
19 April 2023 4 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 7 – How to Deal with Blaming and Shaming 7. How to deal with naming and shaming When issues are revealed in concurrent design sessions, it is inevitable that some blaming and sha... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
23 March 2023 5 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 6 – Challenging the Experts 6. Challenging the experts When you are the facilitator in concurrent design sessions you may know a lot less about the topic than the pa... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
15 February 2023 4 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 5 – Focus Without Losing a Holistic View 5. Focus without losing a holistic view Quality is created by focus; the more we zoom in, the more issues we find and can resolve. Howeve... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
19 January 2023 4 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 4 – Quality In is Quality Out 4. Quality in is quality out When we support our stakeholders to present the information they bring to the table in a structured and comp... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
15 December 2022 4 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 3 – Validation 3. Validation and doing the maths Validation is a standard practice in system engineering, but it is still mostly a planned and separate ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
17 November 2022 4 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 2 – Use 60 Eyes to Check and Double Check 2. Use 60 eyes to check and double check Peer reviewing is one of the most effective ways to validate the quality and rigour of results. ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE