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Thursday Morning Session Details

For October 12, 2017, morning session schedule click here.

Authors	Philip S. Burkholder
Title	Better Business through Systems Engineering
Session	Type: Keynote Theme: Day 1 Opening Plenary Time: Thursday, 08:10-9:00 AM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	Products and services continue to advance at an amazing rate. What we routinely do today would have been judged “impossible” not many years prior. Advances in component technology coupled with advances in understanding and modelling the system interaction makes the impossible, possible. This talk will explore where systems engineering has truly enabled better business by providing a product or service that otherwise could not exist. It will include thought provoking stories and explore some probing questions to help leaders and system thinkers add real value while detecting and deterring a false sense of value creation. As industry moves towards more dependence on system engineering and model-centric product development, what are the human factors we need to consider? What are the leadership behaviors (both upward and downward) needed to achieve the optimum result?

Authors	Matthew Clemente
Title	Engineering Patient Outcomes: Opportunities for systems thinking in developing more meaningful and robust therapeutic solutions in pharmaceutics
Session	Type: Keynote Theme: Day 1 Opening Plenary Time: Thursday, 09:05-09:55 AM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	The use of biologics is on the rise and novel delivery approaches for chronic health conditions is shifting the role of the patient. As biologics are highly concentrated and require specific dosages, challenges to deliver consistent dosages impacts patient adherence. The role of the patient is transforming to have more independence and control of their treatment. Wearable drug delivery technology is projected to improve the user experience, drive adherence, and ensure patient engagement. Drug delivery is truly at the crossroads in which path to take to best improve patient outcomes and can benefit from sound systems engineering practices to tackle the totality of the issue at hand. In this session, discover how providing patients and care providers with novel approaches to drug delivery through the use of connected health helps navigate these crossroads towards better care.

Authors	Sean McCoy
Title	Top Ten ways engineers undermine their own success
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Effectiveness Time: Thursday, 10:30-11:10 PM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	This session will explore areas that engineers commonly struggle with in their career development and effectiveness. The recurring feedback comment “you need to work on your people skills” has become cliché, and while often accurate it is not a very helpful comment for an engineer. This presentation explores some example classic problem areas in a humorous “Top Ten List” format; and then offers some constructive recommendations for how engineers can avoid these clichés in their career development. This presentation is applicable to anyone interested in improving their effectiveness on project teams – as team member, a team leader, or a manager of engineers. Classic problem areas: 1. “But, I’m right…” 2. “But, that’s stupid…” 3. “I don’t have time to hold their hand…” 4. “We don’t do things that way…” 5. “Why don’t they just trust us…” 6. “The data will demonstrate our results…” 7. “No one understands what I am saying…” 8. “It won’t work if we do it that way…” 9. “Here’s something that you don’t know…” 10. “But, that’s already done…”

Authors	Mat French
Title	Economic Benefits of Vertical Alignment
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Effectiveness Time: Thursday, 11:15-11:55 AM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	The benefits of creating an Integrated Project/Product Team (IPT) to support the development of a vertical thread are substantial. A vertically aligned multi-organizational ‘IPT’ environment can foster engineering innovation and encourage creativity simultaneously from different organizations. Within the aerospace domain, we are amongst the development of future aerospace platforms that are some of the most technically and programmatically complex programs endeavored in history of the aerospace industry. The benefit of working across organizational boundaries provides not only technical benefit but also economic benefit. When teams can collaborate there are several hard tangible benefits. This presentation will highlight the economic benefits of working across silos within a vertically aligned IPT environment. This presentation will briefly describe a generic process for architecting future aerospace platforms capable of significant technical advantages, and then describe potential economic benefits realizable through significant cost savings. To highlight the savings, a case study will be used. The case study will show that when applied, a 5x program cost savings was not only fully realized, but included technical improvement >100% over legacy baseline comparisons.

Authors	Jack Stein
Title	MBSE for Resilient Hospitals
Session	Type: Panel Theme: Healthcare Time: Thursday, 10:30-11:55 PM Room: Salon D
Abstract	Improving the resiliency of hospitals is an important objective that, in theory, model based systems engineering (MBSE) can help achieve. In 2018 a Resilient Hospitals Group consisting of systems engineers interested in this objective was formed. Group member affiliations include, but are not limited to INCOSE (lead by the CIPR WG), OOSEM, InfraGard, and IEEE. This panel engages core members of the Resilient Hospitals Group and the audience in an interactive session that (a) informs the audience of the Resilient Hospital Group’s current direction and planned activities, and (b) provides the Group with valuable feedback from a diverse audience.

Authors	Bill Bihlman, C Robert Kenley
Title	A systems approach to understanding additive manufacturing's impact on the aerospace supply chain
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Technology Impacts Time: Thursday, 10:30-11:10 PM Room: Salon E
Abstract	In 2005, Morris Technologies successfully demonstrated that metal additive manufacturing (AM) could be legitimately used to make gas turbine components. Gas turbines are arguably the most complex and safety-critical system on an aircraft. This particular part was non-structural, yet is still considered flight critical. Along with its GE Aviation partner, Morris Technologies (now a wholly-owned GE subsidiary) "printed" a fuel nozzle component that is now standard on all GE/Snecma CFM engines. The company boasted of its immediate saving in terms of material, weight, and even part count. Nevertheless, now over a decade hence, AM has still not experienced meaningful adoption in aerospace, although it promises to offer considerable savings in terms of time, money and material over traditional technologies of forging, castings, and machined plate. The industry is indeed at a fundamental crossroads. With commercial pressure to adopt AM parts, its impact on the entire system life cycle has to be well understood. This requires quantifying uncertainty and developing risk mitigation schemes. This presentation will address many of the central elements of the AM ecosystem. In particular, it will answer questions such as: What is the impact on design for gas turbine engines? Can traditional operational procedures be deployed? What are the implications for manufacturing infrastructure, and particular, its smaller supply chain partners? What is the anticipated approach to product substantiation/certification?

Authors	Bob Parro, Stephen Denman, Kevin McHugh
Title	Using Cognitive Computing to Elevate Requirements Quality and Auto-Generate Test Cases
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Technology Impacts Time: Thursday, 11:15-11:55 AM Room: Salon E
Abstract	Poorly written requirements are the culprit for many project/product failures, schedule delays, cost overruns, poor quality and/or going to market with reduced functionality compared to the original plan. Requirements also have test cases written against them for verification and validation purposes to assure products meet customer needs. Test case development may consume many resources, and is amplified when test cases are written poorly. Technology is emerging in the area of cognitive computing/artificial intelligence that serves to address the quality of requirements challenge as well as providing automation for higher quality test case generation against requirements. In this presentation we will explore the value provided by cognitive computing in the area of requirements & test case quality by presenting the merits of this technology.

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