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SYSTEM 18-19
CHARACTERISTICS

Sustainable

Scalable

Safe

INTERCONNECTED
Smart
INTERDEPENDENT
Leading to three dominating system properties
Stable
COMPLEX

Simple

Secure
SUSTAINABLE SOCIALLY
systems take into ACCEPTABLE
account: acceptable Socially Acceptable social, environ-
cost of total owner- Eight key system characteristics desired by stakeholders mental and eco-
ship; full product life nomic concerns
cycle management; interact.
management of SECURE
product diversity; SCALABLE system complexity, Stakeholder
pre-planned product systems are adapt- global connectivity acceptability of
and IT-dependence
evolution; upgrades able to a range of SAFE SIMPLE give rise to system systems is increas-
while operational; performance and systems, driven by systems are main- vulnerabilities. ingly influenced
& conservation of system capabilities software-intensive SMART STABLE tainable and avoid The challenges for by socio-economic
natural resources. without breaking designs, are increas- systems are able to systems of the future operator error. averting unwanted issues and con-
their fundamental ingly being used in cope with a chang- must be stable and intrusions or for miti- cerns of sustain-
Systems engineers architecture. This applications in which ing and unknown reliable in order to: Systems engineers gating the results ability.
must be able to is an important trait system safety is a environment, assist meet key operational must strive to find of intrusions have
balance sometimes because of the high significant concern. human operators, or requirements and solutions that have grown enormously.
self-organize to pro-
availability needs;
contradictory cost associated with vide unanticipated achieve customer simple architectures
demands. initial infrastructure Systems engineers products & services . acceptance; and interfaces, are Systems engineers
investments or must be able to as- operate efficiently; understandably must analyze
non-recurring sure ever-increasing Systems engineers avoid liability; and failure tolerant and cyber threats and
engineering. levels of safety and must integrate provide expected easy to use. contribute to global
security policies
resilience in the face social, functional system value. ensuring cyber
Systems engineers of increasing systems and physical security and cyber
must deal with complexity. demands to create Systems engineers defense against both
scalability and valuable system must validate sys- ad hoc and organized
adaptability from solutions that are tems to be consistent threats.
the project start and resilient in their with customer
reconcile the conflict operational environ- expectations across
with product opti- ment. a wide variety of
mization for single use cases and stress
applications. conditions.

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