Business Benefits

Systems Engineering adds value to projects of all sorts but is particularly important in big projects involving multiple team working. These are some of the costs of not applying Systems Engineering:

• Misunderstanding of customer requirements
• Cost and time overruns
• Problems with suppliers and sub-contractors
• Integration difficulties
• Inadequate testing
• Malfunction in use
• Long term maintenance costs

Applied early and correctly, Systems Engineering can eliminate these things and give instead;

• Clear understanding of the scope and context of a project and how it relates to its eventual working environment
• Accurate idea of the costs at the start of the project
• The ability to find and solve probelms early in the lifecycle when resolution is still relatively straightforward
• Reduction of risk
• Flexibility to respond to changing context, requirements and environment
• A co-ordinated, controlled operation with everyone understanding their part
• Appropriate and timely use of technologies, whether off the shelf or bespoke

Systems Engineering can only achieve so much in isolation. To be truly effective, it needs to permeate the organisation and culture of a business so that all processes are aligned and integrated and people are really working together instead of merely alongside. The supply chain also needs to be integrated in to this way of operating.

If you or your company would like to know more, please contact us. We would be delighted to hear from you.

Email - seic-business@lboro.ac.uk

Phone - +44 (0) 1509 635200