INCOSE SFBAC August, 14 2017 Meeting

Topic:  Thinking 'Outside the Box'

Presented by:   Dr. Scott Workinger, Ph.D., Stanford Engineering 

· Date:  Monday, August 14, 2017   5:30 - 7:30 PM

· Location:  Rinconada Library in Palo Alto

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:00 PM  Social time

6:00 - 7:00 PM  Presentation and Q&A with Scott

LOCATION:

Rinconada Library, Embarcadero Room

1213 Newell Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94303

Map to Library

REMOTE ATTENDANCE:

Meeting Details Web Address:  https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetSeven

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Access Number:  1-719-234-7872

Guest Passcode:  529 771 4673

ABOUT THE EVENT:

We often hear it suggested that we should 'Think Outside the Box.'  But rarely do we see concrete suggestions regarding how to do so.  Yet, practical thinking skills do exist that we can use to open up a larger solution space in order to solve very difficult problems.  Experience has shown that these skills can be learned and practiced.  For example, as a starting point, it is useful to see the box.  

We will review examples of transformational thinking that significantly changed organizations and industries as diverse as optical fiber manufacturing, professional sports, and consumer electronics.  This lecture is recommended for anyone who wants to stretch their thinking skills.  

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Scott Workinger, Ph.D., Stanford Engineering has 35 years of experience leading people that create innovative, practical solutions to business problems and field working systems in a broad spectrum of industries. His academic research focused on how engineering processes connect to engineering models in an end user programming environment.  He currently teaches  technical leadership, systems architecture, test engineering, problem analysis, systems engineering, design thinking, systems thinking, and system of systems thinking.  The students who attend his courses come from a broad cross section of backgrounds and include experienced leaders and technologists from such diverse backgrounds as the US Navy, NASA, pharmaceutical companies, aircraft program management, and engineering consulting firms. Scott has a passion for empowering his students through research, application, and teaching. His teaching style emphasizes coaching students in practical problem solving exercises, dialog, and class discussion. 

INCOSE SFBAC June, 12 2017 Meeting

Cyber-security in the Medical Device Industry

Presented by Rollie Olson (Varian Medical Systems)

• Date:  Monday, June 12, 2017   5:30 - 7:30 PM
• Location:  Rinconada Library in Palo Alto
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AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:00 PM  Social time

6:00 - 7:00 PM  Presentation and Q&A with Rollie Olson

LOCATION:

Rinconada Library, Embarcadero Room

1213 Newell Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94303

Map to Library

REMOTE ATTENDANCE:

Meeting Details Web Address:  https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetSeven

Join as GUEST

Access Number:  1-719-234-7872

Guest Passcode:  529 771 4673

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Today's interconnected world has brought numerous advances in health care and with it increased risk.  Connected medical devices are susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities from cyber attacks; the most catastrophic of which is death to those who the intended use of the device is to treat.  Pressure is on medical device developers to identify these vulnerabilities and implement safeguards.  This presentation will explore some of the vulnerabilities and the challenges faced by medical device developers to eliminate or protect the patients for harm.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Rollie Olson is a Systems Engineer with Varian Medical Systems responsible for risk management.  He has over 20 years of experience as a systems engineer in both defense and medical systems.  He worked on the signal processing of the advanced synthetic aperture radar for the US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird, the intel processing for the U-2 Dragonlady, and the command and control for the digitized battlefield for the US Army M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, before transitioning to work at Varian on radiotherapy systems to eliminate the fear of cancer.

[INCOSE San Francisco] Tonight's Webinar at 6 PM on Decision Analysis

Hello All!

Brian Putt is offering a FREE webinar this evening on the SIPmath Tool Bar at 6 PM.  This will be a great follow up to his presentation at our chapter meeting last week, so check it out!  I've copied the connection info below, and you can read on for more information on the webinar.

• Register Here
• Select the March 21 option under the 3.0 SIPmath Modeler Tools event listed in the "Dates and Times" box
• Promotional Code for Free Webinar:  CON387 

Thank You,

Robin Reil

INCOSE San Francisco Bay Area Chapter March 13 Meeting

INCOSE SFBAC March 2017 Meeting

Decision Analysis and Systems Engineering

Presented by Brian Putt - Decision Analysis Consultant

• Date:  Monday, March 13, 2017   5:30 - 7:30 PM
• Location:  Applied Strategies in San Mateo

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:00 PM  Social time

6:00 - 7:00 PM  Presentation and Q&A with Brian Putt

LOCATION:

Applied Strategies

951 Mariners Island Boulevard, Suite 400

San Mateo, CA 94404

Map to Applied Strategies

REMOTE ATTENDANCE:

Join as GUEST

Meeting Details Web Address:  https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetSeven

Access Number:  1-719-234-7872

Guest Passcode:  529 771 4673

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Decision Analysis (DA) embraces System Engineering and has many similarities.  We will discuss what is decision analysis and look at the similarities and the differences with system engineering.  Chevron’s $54 Billion Gorgon LNG project will be used as an example.   We will discuss the elements of Decision Quality, to include framing the opportunity and decision criteria.   Using only Excel, we will demonstrate decision analysis using a modeling method called SIPmath that enables making decision considering uncertainty using continuous variables.  Projects are frequently over cost (budget) and/or behind schedule.   We will look at how decision analysis can assist in better assessing cost and schedule using probabilistic analysis.  We will look at a live model and discuss how to represent mitigations of the cost and schedule.   We can also discuss the “Pugh Concept Selection” process and how it might be enhanced with Decision Analysis.

Video:  George Kirkland and the Role of Decision Analysis at Chevron

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Brian Putt's Biography

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INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems. The SFBAC presents thought-provoking monthly programs for its members and their guests.

Learn more about SFBAC at:     SFBAC Welcome

Learn more about INCOSE at:   http://www.incose.org/

Thank you,

Robin Reil

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INCOSE San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Nov 14 Wine Social

INCOSE San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

Nov 14 Wine Social 

Date :  Monday, Nov 14, 2016  5:30 - 7:30 PM

Location: Vino Vino Wine Bar, 199 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

Thinking of joining?

Already a member and want to get more involved?

Want your ideas heard?

Just want some free appetizers and an excuse to socialize?

Here’s your opportunity!

You are invited to a chapter social.  Help us celebrate another successful year of the SFBAC.  Chapter officers and Board of Director members will be there to hear your ideas for future meetings and chapter activities.  Members, their guests, and prospective members welcome!

Map to Vino Vino in Sunnyvale

Plenty of free parking across the street

Chapter will provide free appetizers. Pay for your own wine.  Can be purchased by the glass, carafe, or a flight of 4 wines. 

Hope to see you there!

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INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems. The SFBAC presents thought-provoking monthly programs for its members and their guests.

Learn more about SFBAC at:  http://oldsite.incose.org/sfbac/SFBACwelcome.html

Learn more about INCOSE at:   http://www.incose.org/

For any questions about the event, please contact Colleen Farrell at colleen.farrell@baesystems.com

Job Opportunity at AGCO

Senior Systems Engineer

AGCO is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our global Electronics Diagnostics team in Hesston, KS.  The Senior Systems Engineer will join a team developing the next generation global AGCO diagnostic tool.  The Senior Systems Engineer will be a key team member to manage requirements, coordinate with global teams working on related projects, drive standards implementation, and lead the team in proactively analyzing potential issues and recommending corrective actions.  This position has global impact with lead products in France, Germany, and Finland and future adoption around the world.

Note: Up to 25% domestic and international travel may be required for the role

Responsibilities of the Senior Systems Engineer:

• Serve as a Technical Project Lead; coordinate the activities of others and manage stakeholder expectations
• Develop and maintain system requirements and conceptual system documentation
• Assess requirements and present recommendations that align with AGCO’s strategic vision
• Ensure that system views are consistent, coherent, and detailed
• Identify reference data and determine source; ensure system reuses existing
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Systems Engineering methods, frameworks, and tools

Required Qualifications and Education of the Senior Systems Engineer:

• Strong analytic skills and experience, including functional decompositions, requirements capture, and process modeling.
• Ability to define common interfaces for software and hardware based systems.
• Use ‘system of systems’ engineering development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components, and application interfaces/interoperability to address complexity concerns.
• Use of software development methodologies and agile approach to systems development.
• Experience as the technical focal point of a globally distributed team of professionals within the business, applications/systems, data/information and technical disciplines.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to clearly explain the recommended approach to the business sponsors and stakeholders.
• Ability to create diagrams and pictures to show design options and lead discussion to a solution
• Proficiency with systems diagramming techniques such as UML and SysML methodologies
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field

Preferred Qualifications of the Senior Systems Engineer:

• 2+ years of experience working with telemetry or electronic controls diagnostic systems
• 1+ years of hands-on work with Ethernet-based networks or control system communication networks such as CAN bus protocols: UDS, J1939, ISO 11783, KWP2000
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering

 

Link to Apply: 

http://bit.ly/2d53EIb​ 

About Hesston

Only 35 minutes from Wichita, Hesston is a place where industry, recreation, and families blossom, offering many amenities found in a larger city but in a small town atmosphere. Hesston’s appeal goes nationwide; more than a third of the residents hail from outside the Kansas state lines.

Benefits

AGCO offers competitive benefits including options and choices to fit your needs such as medical, dental, prescription drug, life and accident insurance, long and short term disability, matching 401k plan, employee assistance program, and discounted home and auto insurance.

Why AGCO?

At AGCO you have a voice and the opportunity to impact our long-term success, as well as your own.  As a Fortune 500 company and one of the global leaders in agricultural equipment manufacturing, we have an extensive network of approximately 3,000 dealers and serve more than 140 countries. We are celebrating our 25th year in business, and pride ourselves on competitive relocation and employee benefit packages. While headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, AGCO has manufacturing facilities all over the world creating and distributing their full-line of products, including Challenger, Fendt, GSI, Massey Ferguson, and Valtra. Join AGCO and become part of a diverse team and grow your career in ways you never imagined. It’s time to embrace your infinite possibilities!

AGCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Segment: Project Engineer, Agricultural, Engineer, Electrical, Systems Engineer, Engineering, Agriculture

Nearest Major Market: Wichita 
Job Segment: Agricultural, Manufacturing Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Engineer, Electrical, Agriculture, Engineering

Stefan Gartner, Lead Talent Sourcer

AGCO Talent Acquisition Group

(720) 439-2536 - stefan.gartner@agcocorp.com

       
http://www.agcocorp.com/ 

Click here to learn more about our brands.

INCOSE SFBAC October 18 Systems Engineering Presentation: Building the First "Steamship" in History

TOPIC:  Building the First Steamship in History

              See below for event details.

SPEAKER:  John Busch – Historian and Author of Steam Coffin: Captain Moses and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier

Note that this meeting is being held on the different day and location than usual

• Date:  Tuesday, October 18, 2016 

AGENDA:

6:00 - 6:30 PM   Social half hour and Networking

6:30 - 7:30 PM   Presentation

LOCATION:

Rose Garden Library, Community Room (1^st floor)

1580 Naglee Ave

San Jose, CA

Rose Garden Library Map

Please park on the street, not in the parking garage, since the garage closes at 7pm.

REMOTE ATTENDANCE:

Join as GUEST

Meeting Details Web Address:  https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetEleven
Access Number: 1-719-457-6209

Guest Passcode:  495813

ABOUT THE EVENT:

In 1807, a brilliant, creative, and controversial American by the name of Robert Fulton declared his intent to build an experimental “steamboat,” which would be used to initiate a continuous passenger service between New York City and Albany, New York.  With the success of his North River Steam Boat, Fulton showed that it was possible to alter artificially both a person’s location and the amount of time it took to change it.  In so doing, he also broke through the enormous psychological barrier that had existed in people’s minds; it was, in fact, possible to overcome Nature to practical effect.

It took time for many people to accept Robert Fulton’s triumph as the truth.

One man who did not need to be convinced was a sloop captain named Moses Rogers.  He had witnessed the first successful runs of the North River Steam Boat to Albany, and the experience gave him the fever—steamboat fever.

Moses soon became one of the first steamboat captains in history, taking command of one of Fulton’s first rivals, the Phoenix.  In his new profession, Moses learned not only the technicalities of this revolutionary invention, but the peculiarities of a traveling public just getting used to this new mode of transport.  

In the years immediately following Fulton's triumph, running these steamboats on rivers, lakes and bays became a normal and accepted part of American life, and a system for building and operating them quickly took hold.  But taking such a vessel on a voyage across the ocean was a different proposition altogether.  Experienced mariners didn’t think it could be done.  These early steamboats, they declared, were just too flimsy and unwieldy to withstand the dangers of the deep.

But Moses believed otherwise.  Combining his knowledge of the old mode of transport (sail) with the new mode of transport (steam), he set out to design a vessel that was capable of overcoming the many dangers of the sea.  This craft would be not a steamboat, but a "steamship," the first of its kind.

This Systems Engineering Presentation will show how Captain Rogers altered the existing system for the construction and operation of steamboats in order to create this revolutionary "steamship"...nearly two centuries ago!

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John Laurence Busch is an independent historian who specializes in the first generation of steam-powered vessels, and their revolutionary role in the creation of the modern world.  He has devoted years of research to discovering the true story of Captain Moses Rogers and the steamship Savannah.

The result is STEAM COFFIN, the most descriptive account of the saga of Captain Moses Rogers and the steamship Savannah ever written.  John’s careful weaving together of many disparate sources results in a narrative that recalls both the fabric and style used in storytellings of old.  It also shows just what Captain Moses Rogers and the steamship Savannah accomplished for posterity.

Volunteer opportunity for STEM enthusiasts

Science is Elementary (http://www.elementaryschoolscience.org) brings hands-on science activities to classrooms. It is a largely volunteer driven non-profit. Volunteers dedicate two hours per month, going into classrooms to work in small groups with the same kids every month. Lessons are led by a paid staff member, so the volunteer is basically responsible for having fun exploring the activity with the kids! There will be a training session coming in August. 

Make science fun! Volunteers needed to facilitate science activities with children.

Make a difference  — show students that science is fun, fascinating, and relevant with Science is Elementary! Volunteer for two hours a month to do simple, hands-on science experiments with children. All lessons will be led by a Science is Elementary staff member, and volunteers are integral to the small-group, relationship-based concept. Contact VolunteerSiE@gmail.com for questions, and sign up today! 

Training session: Wednesday, August 24, 7:30-9pm in Mountain View

Volunteer Locations: Mountain View, Santa Clara, or Redwood City elementary schools.

 

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Emily Dilger, PhD

Business Development

Science is Elementary 

VolunteerSiE@gmail.com 

703-772-1456

[INCOSE San Francisco] INCOSE SFBAC August 8 Meeting

Hello All,

There will not be a July meeting of the INCOSE SFBAC due to the IS taking place in Scotland this month.

The next SFBAC meeting will be on Monday, August 8 in the the Rinconada / Embarcadero Room of the Palo Alto Library, with the social time starting at 6 pm, and the talk from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.  Mark Gerhardt, Chief Architect of nHansa, Inc., will be presenting "Modeling Made More Meaningful."  Read on for more information about his presentation.

Have you ever thought that modeling systems requires a huge amount of effort for not much payoff? Have you ever wondered whether a model could capture the wisdom and insights of a system architect, to enable people modifying the system years later to make successful modifications without compromising the essential elements of the system? Have you ever wished that a model would include information which allowed you to understand (if someone else developed the model) or communicate (if you developed the model) some of the rationale and implications of the decisions made in doing the system design?

This talk will focus on enriched modeling techniques for architecture specification and analysis. Current architecture capture and description is done in many places including databases, documents, architecture specifications, DODAF approaches, etc. This diverse and non-seamless set of representations makes it difficult to unify system semantics and understanding about completeness and relevance for complex architectures which are being developed today.

The approach presented here for enhanced modeling includes the idea of "enhanced model types". Enhanced model types build upon the concept pf abstract data types. In addition to specifying type, operation, and value constraints, information is added about the context within which the referencved element relates to the other elements and model context surrounding it.

An enhanced model type contains all the traditional information about an architecture element including its connections, intended behavior, state parameters, etc. In addition the model type enhancement provides additional constraints of three types about each model element: range and value constraints, consistency constraints referencing other elements within the model, and derivation constraints which cause the computation of one or more model elements from others. Constraints are expressed within the model semantics of the model, rather than being checked within the semantics of programmed code segments (which have been usually invoked to do the checking in past modeling approaches).

These constraints must be considered as they apply to both passive and active architecture elements. For active architecture elements, causality semantics provides the capability to specify sequencing, concurrency, conditions of triggering, activation, termination, and other complex process related control. In other words, this enhanced model approach includes time-dependent aspects of the system and its interactions, as well as rigorous static constraint aspects of the architecture. This is a dramatic enhancement over current modeling approaches.

For those of you who participated in the June 2016 SFBAC INCOSE chapter meeting, this August presentation will offer specific ways in which to address many of the challenges that David Long pointed out in his presentation. Come to our August meeting, and hear this very thought-provoking presentation!

Presenter’s bio:

Mark Gerhardt – Chief Architect of nHansa, Inc.

Mark Gerhardt is currently Chief Architect at nHansa, Inc. He has been involved for over 35 years in the conception, construction, and deployment of large and complex mission critical and high-performance software-based systems. Previous positions include software engineering laboratory deputy director at Lockheed Mission Systems, Chief Software Scientist at ESL, Inc., and involvement in many radar, sonar, and EW products at Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, and TRW. He was previously also a Chief Scientist at TPSI Inc. and a Chief Architect at TimeSys Inc., both vendors of schedulability and performance analysis tools. He has also taught graduate level courses in Performance Critical Design and Model Driven Architecture at a local university in San Jose, CA.

During his career, Mark has designed and built numerous real-time systems for signal and radar processing, computer architectures, and fault tolerant systems. He also designed and implemented major embedded software applications including C3I and early-warning receivers. Mark's interests include software and system engineering methods, system and software architecture, object-based languages, and Ada. Mark is the Past Chair of ACM SIGAda and was a Distinguished Reviewer for Ada95. He has done extensive work involving Rate Monotonic Analysis and the use of schedulability tools during architecture development. He is also involved in the IEEE 1471/ISO 42010 work for the recommended practice on how to capture architecture.

Mark has been involved with the generation of the schedulability performance and timing (SPT) profile for UML as well as the current modeling and analysis of real-time embedded systems (MARTE) profile for UML developed within the Object Management Group. Mark has been involved with evolving UML profiles for performance since their inception from UML_RT to the present MARTE work. Follow-on work included development of a real-time decomposition method for mission critical architecture development.

Current research work is focused on building a system and accompanying process that support enhanced model types including self-contained rules about integrity, consistency and completeness for model elements and architectures. A research product is being constructed using graphical databases, rule-based systems, and an enhanced storage repository. Both the system under development and the system process of developing it are represented within the system as layered meta-models. Continued enforcement of rule integrity maintains consistency about the development process and the developed artifacts when using this system.

Mark received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree Magna Cum Laude from the City College of New York and his Master of Science in Engineering (Computer Science) from Princeton University.

Thank You,

Robin Reil

[INCOSE San Francisco] INCOSE SFBAC June 13 Meeting- Beyond MBSE: Looking Towards the Next Evolution in Systems Engineering

Topic: Beyond MBSE: Looking Towards the Next Evolution in Systems Engineering 

Watch presentation given to Chicagoland chapter in March, with a discussion to follow.

SPEAKER:  David Long, Former INCOSE President

AGENDA:

6:30 - 7:00 PM   Social half hour and Networking

7:00 - 8:00 PM   Presentation

LOCATION:

Rinconada Library, Embarcadero Room

1213 Newell Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94303

Map to Library

REMOTE ATTENDANCE:

Join as GUEST

Meeting Details Web Address:  https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetSeven

Access Number:  1-719-234-7872

Guest Passcode:  529 771 4673

ABOUT THE EVENT:  

For almost 10 years, the systems engineering community has been focused on the transformation from document-centric to model-based techniques. While most systems engineering organizations have completed pilot efforts, established appropriate communities of practice, and are plotting their path forward, this transformation is far from complete. In terms of the Roger’s innovation adoption lifecycle, we are beyond the early adopters, in the early majority, and moving towards the tipping point where model-based systems engineering becomes the expected framework and approach for systems engineering. 

Systems engineering remains a young discipline – one that must continue to learn and evolve, one where transitions should be viewed as waypoints along a journey rather than destinations themselves. While work remains to ensure the transformation to model-based techniques is both efficient and effective, it is time for the systems engineering community to begin looking beyond MBSE. When model-based is simply the way organizations practice systems engineering, what is the next evolution required to address next generation problems and deliver the organizational value required? How must the systems engineering practice evolve? What can we begin doing today – even in the continued implementation and adoption of MBSE – to prepare ourselves and our organizations to make that transition? Looking at the journey to date and the opportunities in the future, how can we characterize the next leg of the journey and plot a path forward for ourselves, our organizations, and the greater systems engineering practice?

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INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems. The SFBAC presents thought-provoking monthly programs for its members and their guests.

Learn more about SFBAC at:     http://www.oldsite.incose.org/sfbac/SFBACwelcome.html.  Learn more about INCOSE at:   http://www.incose.org/

Thank you,

Robin Reil

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