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What to Know About Verification and Validation in Engineering

SSA verification and validation — Systems Strategies & Analysis (SSA, Inc.) offers our customers full systems engineering lifecycle support using MBSE to include verification and validation.

The engineering design cycle moves via multiple stages from initial design to final production. During those stages, parts must be inspected to ensure they do their purpose. When a part is verified, when is it validated? Keep reading to refresh yourself on the difference between verification and validation. Continue reading “What to Know About Verification and Validation in Engineering”

The Relevance of Trade Studies in Your Design Process

ssa-trade-studies — Trade studies mostly go hand in hand with high-level architecture design.

How can a company make informed and rational decisions to balance the system’s objectives and constraints? Trade studies are a tool for choosing the best option out of many options for a problem (computing, storage, etc.). They also examine potential choices against a set of requirements or objective criteria to lay out each solution’s benefits and limitations clearly. Continue reading “The Relevance of Trade Studies in Your Design Process”

How Does MBSE Contribute to Risk Management?

ssa risk management — What is risk management?

What is risk management? Risk management aims to reduce the possibility and impact of potential adverse events or failures that can happen during the lifecycle of an engineering endeavor. In addition, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) contributes to risk management by identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks. Read on to learn more information regarding this topic. Continue reading “How Does MBSE Contribute to Risk Management?”