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
24 January 2023 4 minutes Contributing to Development of Europe’s Destination Earth Project We are supporting ESA and EUMETSAT in the implementation of the European Commission’s (EC’s) flagship initiative Destination Earth Data Earth Observation News Space
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
20 October 2022 4 minutes Updating Key Space Weather Impact Report Our UK office has been awarded a contract by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to prepare an updated report on the impact of space weathe... Engineering News Space
19 October 2022 3 minutes Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 1 – The Role of the Facilitator 1. The role of the facilitator Concurrent design requires a specific style of process facilitation. Traditionally, facilitation methods p... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
22 September 2022 9 minutes 10 Success Factors for Concurrent Design Overview: What is concurrent design? Concurrent design is based on a series of sessions where the client, experts from various domains an... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
18 August 2022 7 minutes James Webb Space Telescope – Sharing Data from the Ultimate Space-Time Machine In this post, Mark McCaughrean from ESA discusses how data from the James Webb Space Telescope will be disseminated to scientists. Astronomy Blog Science Space
17 August 2022 3 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 10 – The Team as Super-Brain 10: The team as super-brain One vital contributory factor to the success of concurrent design is treating the team as a ‘super-brain’. To... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
20 July 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 9 – Taking an Iterative Approach 9: Taking an iterative approach You may have read that concurrent design takes an ‘iterative approach’. But what does that mean? We work ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
15 June 2022 3 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 8 – Efficiency 8: Efficiency One of the objectives of concurrent design is to speed up the process of the early phases of multidisciplinary projects, no... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
19 May 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 7 – Motivation and Flow 7: Motivation and Flow Working efficiently requires effort and hard work from everyone involved. This is particularly true of concurrent ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
19 May 2022 2 minutes Providing State-of-the-Art Security Services for EUMETSAT We have been awarded a 3-year contract by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) for the ... News Security Space
5 May 2022 4 minutes Supporting the Dutch MoD and ESA with Concurrent Design Solutions The Dutch Ministry of Defence has opened a dedicated concurrent design facility with our support while ESA adopts CDP4-COMET Concurrent Design News Space
20 April 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 6 – Three Steps to Achieve Commitment 6: Three Steps to Achieve Commitment In concurrent design, solutions to a problem should always be based on facts. But it is also importa... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
30 March 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 5 – Gain a holistic view through a cyclical approach 5. Take an Iterative Approach Concurrent design supports (technically) complex problems. To approach these problems logically and product... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Engineering MBSE
17 February 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 4 – Assign Ownership 4. Assign Ownership In this post, we explain why the success of concurrent design depends on all stakeholders being mandated experts and ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Engineering MBSE