Career path... current theory is to get an engineering degree, get some experience, and get a Masters (to get a degree) althrough there are plenty of experienced SE's out there without advanced degrees
Problem resurface...that makes sense since the product cycle times are about that. So why does that happen? the knowledge/experience is in the engineers heads rather than being in a repository, so the experience leaves the program and who ever is left behind is wondering why we did something, takes it out, and the problem comes back.
Problem resurface... problems come back depending on the typical product cycle. Auto people tell me it's 3 years. High tech people tell me it 6 months.
RMSS balance question... the problem is they need to start somewhere to gain that experience. There is a raging debate whether you can college educate a SE. i.e. a BS in SE. You will see relatively few of them, but you will see a number of MS and PHD's on the topic
RMSS balance question... if you look around your organization, there is someone(s) who seems to have a grasp of cross-discipline issues. Usually they have a line outside their cube of people waiting to ask questions. Those are the people that have been around your organization alot of years, who have the experience to know what can get them. So, a generalist is what you need for SE.
My guess is that it doesn't take long for a problem once solved to resurface. Is that management something that happens in the PLM system as part of an integrated or big-picture engineering approach or is that a totally different animal?
Common mistakes... your product failures will point out the breakdown in communications across disciplines. That's why you need a integrated infrastructure to not only capture them, but also 'remember' them for you.
Like I pointed out mistakes have a way of focusing an organization. Lessons learned from a mistake should be managed and kept up with like product information. Otherwise you have a tendancy to repeat the problems. One organization called it the resurface metric...how long does a problem once solved take to come back
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Mistakes... I've developed a list over time of mistakes organizations make around implementing SE. For example:
Expecting documents at the end of a development effort instead of models Promoting fire fighters instead of fire preventors Not allowing any time up front to do the system/archiecture development ...
Mark Beth good points, good talk. It makes me thing of skynet and the terminator. My question becomes what is a good balance betwqeen ones specialty and overall knowledge in a top down design?
Different disciplines talking to each other... you need to move to a higer level of system description (vs. electical or mechanical)Systems Engineering would say you go to functions first. That's a implementation independent way of describing what the system should do.
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