Enterprise systems engineering

Carolyn Beck Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA Paul H. Bernardo Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore, Singapore... 

Today, senior design in General Engineering at Illinois continues with successful outcomes for companies and students alike. Currently, teams of three students work with a faculty advisor for an industrial sponsor on a project of practical importance to the company. Additional details about the course are available on the course website (Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, 2008), but the point here is to reflect on this course and the opportunity it provides to diagnose difficulties in engineering education. 

Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (2008). Senior Engineering Project Course Description, http //www.iese.uiuc.edu/ge494/course-description.html... 

Simply stated, achieving interoperability for integration is hard work and requires an enterprise perspective. Hence, systems engineering must consider the system s potential impact on the entire enterprise, as well as the impact of the enterprise on system development. We will refer to this broader perspective in systems engineering as enterprise systems engineering (ESE). 

Fig. 16.2 Enterprise systems engineering profiler. Source 2008 IEEE. Originally published in Stevens, Renee, Profiling Complex Systems, in SysCon 2008 - IEEE International Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 7-10, 2008. Reprinted tvith permission...

Fig. 16.5 Enterprise characterization. Source Rebovich, Geoige Jt- Enterprise Systems Engineering and Practice, Vol. 2 Systems Thinking for the Enterprise New and Emerging Perspectives, MP 05B0000043, Bedford, MA The MITRE Corporation. November 2005...

To address this COI s challenges, the technical and non-technical enterprise systems engineering techniques applied included ... 

The enterprise shall maintain a self-assessment program to determine the maturity of its systems engineering practices to include the application of the SEP tasks of Clause 6. The raiterprise applies insights gained during self-assessment toward improving products, life cycle processes, and enterprise systems engineering practices. 

Aslaksen, E.W. Designing Complex Systems Foundations of design in the functional domain. In Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering. The Taylor Francis series. CRC Press, Boca Raton (2008)... 

Finally, several experts and industry representatives indicate that the responsibility for securing control systems typically includes two separate groups IT security personnel and control system engineers and operators. IT security personnel tend to focus on securing enterprise systems, while control system engineers and operators tend to be more concerned with the reliable performance of their control systems. Further, they indicate that, as a result, those two groups do not always fully understand each other s requirements nor collaborate to implement secure control systems. 

Grossmann, I.E. (2005) Enterprise-wide optimization a new frontier in process systems engineering. AIChE Journal, 51, 1846. 

From a systems engineering perspective, there are three enduring technical challenges that any pharmacometrics service enterprise must successfully address ... 

In parallel to this push for extending the borders of chemical process systems engineering to areas that have been traditionally the reserve of industrial engineers, a new concept of supply chemical chain was recently discussed in detail by Grossmann and Westerberg (2000), and in the United States National Academies report by Breslow and Tirrell (2003). The chemical supply chain extends from the molecule level to the whole enterprise. Breslow and Tirrell (2003) suggest that ... 

Grossmann I.E. 2003. Challenges in the new millennium product discovery and design, enterprise and supply chain optimization, global life cycle assessment. PSE 2003. 8th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, China. 

A comprehensive business model can provide the enterprise context within which the engineer conducts his or her process analysis. Specifically, the model displays how and where the process fits into the enterprise system, what other processes are affected by it, and what business and information systems must support it. This context helps the engineer make sure that proposed process changes will not degrade the performance of other processes and systems. 

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