SSE Meeting 12

INCOSE UK Service Systems Engineering Meeting 23 January 2015

Held at Rolls-Royce, Filton, Bristol

Attendees

Steve Ashlin, Iain Cardlow, Peter Mason(by phone), Andrew Farncombe, John Davies, Alan Crawford

Plan

Steve has updated the plan. Mostly to revise the timing to bewtter fit with the effort/rpgress that is being achieved.

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Poster

The Working Group Poster resulted in some interest and discussion, but has not resulted in extending the group membership.

Paper

dan Wilson from Fraser-Nash presented a paper 'Applying Systems Engineering to Service Provision'. This takes a typical development project lifecycle process and adapts it for development of a service. It uses its own definition of 'Service' and hence area of interest, but is of some interest to this group.

Use Cases

A number of areas were discussed.

Terminology

We use the term 'Use Case' to mean a useful example described using a template. In some areas of engineering 'use Case' has a fixed meaning and fixed template. In our case we could use the term 'Case Study' or 'Real Example'.

Template

The current template is a list of areas of information to be covered. There may be more areas to add or some could be removed if not found to be useful. Currently most Use Cases use the template in MSPowerPoint, it may be better to have them in MSWord in the future.

Stakeholders

Stakeholder analysis and relationships are seen as important and should be covered within the template. They may be related to WorldViews - see below.

Rapid Acquisiton of Manufactured Services

Alan presenteed work he has been involved in over many years linked to the Royal Navy. This has been work to replace stockpiles of hardware spares with a service that supplies spares when they are needed. This has involved capturing and standardising engineering designs (CAD) and then going out to tender for manufacture (CAM) when the spare parts are needed. it was agreed this would make a good Use Case in a different area of business of interest to UKAB member companies.

Work of core group members

For the next meeting following will be looked at/developed:

• Steve A: Updates for General Use Case and Use Case for specific trials
• Peter M: Procurement use case
• Iain C: Engine provision Use Case
• John D: Update Electric Car Rental Use Case, develop Definitions work
• Andrew F: INCOSE Handbook v4
• Alan C: Develop Use Case

Date for next meeting:

23 March 2015 – QinetiQ, London.