Calendar
Below is the Calendar showing Chapter events, Working and Local Group events, as well as International Events.
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MBSE Interest Group
Model Based Systems Engineering
Frazer-Nash Bristol
09:30 - 16:00
RIVA: A Rigorous Approach to Business Process Management
Bristol Local Group
Atkins, The Hub 500 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Bristol BS32 4RZ
18:30-21:00
Collective Intelligence through Structured Dialogue
Bristol Local Group
Atkins, The Hub 500 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Bristol BS32 4RZ
18:30-21:00
Introduction to the Viable System Model (VSM)
South Coast Local Group
Future Technology Centre, University of Portsmouth
19:15 - 20:45
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Current Events
Time | Location | Details |
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11/03/2019 - 11/03/2019 18:30-21:00 |
Bristol Local Group Atkins, The Hub 500 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Bristol BS32 4RZ |
![]() Collective Intelligence through Structured Dialogue
Systems Engineers often need to engage with stakeholders and address complex or wicked problems. Structured Dialogic Design is a methodology that evolved from the field of Interactive Management in the US starting in the 1980s. In its various forms (and under different names) it has been widely applied across the globe in enabling groups to tackle wicked problems and complex challenges, but is not well known in the UK. The Bristol team were therefore delighted when Peter Miles accepted our invitation to talk with us about Structured Dialogue and his experience of applying it in the UK, with clients including the MoD, Rolls Royce and NHS. This presentation will outline the methodology, its provenance, and the current state of practice.
Peter Miles is based in Manchester and is an associate of Demosophia LLC in the US. He is also Vice-chair of Stockport & District Mind, an RSA Fellow, and until recently a non-executive director of SCiO, a community of systems thinking practitioners. Peter has worked in process consulting since 2004, when he set up a business to bring the collaborative processes developed by John Warfield and Aleco Christakis to clients in the UK. Prior to that he was CEO of a division of Teradyne Inc., a business he helped to develop from a start-up. Peter has BSc. and MSc. degrees in Electronics and is a Chartered Engineer.
There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view To book for this event, please click here. |
25/03/2019 - 25/03/2019 18:30-21:00 |
Bristol Local Group Atkins, The Hub 500 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Bristol BS32 4RZ |
![]() RIVA: A Rigorous Approach to Business Process Management
A clear and rigorous description of an organisation’s business processes is a key prerequisite of many outputs in the Systems Engineering field and related disciplines. Bristol Local Group is delighted to welcome Martyn Ould to discuss the novel Riva method. Unlike many of the alternatives, Riva combines a rigorous notation with a practical analytical method, one that is currently being used in parts of the Defence and Research community to good effect.
With concurrency and collaboration at its heart, Riva is grounded in organisational theory rather than driven by the constraints of software modelling tools. It uses business concepts to describe businesses, rather than distorting the world to fit inappropriate software concepts. That said, it has strong formal underpinnings that ensure rigour and transparency in the resulting descriptions, more so than many other approaches that come from software engineering.
Martyn is the author of Business Process Management – a rigorous approach. During a varied career in Software Development, including teaching at Oxford University and University of West of England, Martyn became increasingly involved in Business Process Management, applying Riva in assignments with major organisations such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, and with both national and local government. Now pretending to be retired, he was a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.
There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view To book for this event, please click here. |
26/03/2019 - 26/03/2019 09:30 - 16:00 |
Model Based Systems Engineering Frazer-Nash Bristol |
![]() MBSE Interest Group Agenda TBC If you wish to attend or have something to present to the group then please contact a member of the committee |
27/03/2019 - 27/03/2019 19:15 - 20:45 |
South Coast Local Group Future Technology Centre, University of Portsmouth |
![]() Introduction to the Viable System Model (VSM) Practitioners of systems thinking use the viable systems model (VSM), the minimum combination of systems laws to describe the necessary functions and conditions required for any organisation to independently survive and thrive within a changing environment by understanding and reacting to complexity inside and outside the organisation.
The talk is free and anyone interested in systems thinking and systems engineering is invited to attend There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view To book for this event, please click here. |
Future Events
Past Events
Time | Location | Details |
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18/02/2019 - 18/02/2019 10:30 - 14:30 |
Service Systems Engineering Rolls-Royce plc Whittle House WH73 PO Box 3, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7QE, UK Sat nav postcode - BS34 6QA |
![]() Meeting 34
Agenda
Moving forward from ASEC 2018
Types of service contracts, lifecycles etc.
- Updates to draft handbook
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14/02/2019 - 14/02/2019 09:30 - 17:00 |
Energy Systems Interest Group Manchester |
![]() 2nd working meeting of the group The meeting will take place at the offices of WSP in Manchester, from 10:00 – 16:00. The address is
No 8 First Street Manchester M15 4RP. If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact us via email on Michael.Gainford@es.catapult.org.uk There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
11/02/2019 - 11/02/2019 18:30-21:00 |
Bristol Local Group Atkins, The Hub
500 Park Avenue, Aztec West,
Bristol BS32 4RZ
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![]() The Single European Sky - Challenges to Traditional SE Approaches
Bristol Local Group welcomes John Lomax, from Airbus, to kick off the first workshop in 2019. Enterprises are highly complex systems of people and technologies that are entities in their own right, which are prone to gross structural inefficiencies and failures to the extent of causing great societal harm and economic loss. Using the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) Programme as an example, John invites the Bristol Local Group to discuss and identify Systems Engineering approaches that work and areas where improvement and innovation is needed. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion session.
This talk was first given to North West Group on 4th December 2018.
John is a Programme Systems Engineer with over 30 years of experience gained mainly across the Aerospace, Defence, and Air-traffic Management Domains, and currently works for Communications, Intelligence & Security (CIS), AIRBUS, and previously at the SESAR Joint Undertaking. He has recently returned from a 7-year expatriation providing direct Customer Liaison to the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) European Commission Agency of the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) Modernization Programme located in Brussels Belgium. He is an INCOSE CSEP and INCOSE CAR. There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
12/12/2018 - 12/12/2018 18:00 - 19:30 |
London Local Group University College London |
![]() Relaunch event with Professor Alan Smith Relaunch event with Professor Alan Smith 6pm – 7.30pm 12 December 2018
We invite you to join us at the relaunching event of the London Local Group with the aim to provide a local meeting point for people interested in Systems Engineering, and stimulate an open dialogue and exchange of perspectives Featuring a talk by Professor Featuring a talk by Professor Alan Smith, UCL followed by a group discussion on the future of the London Local Group Venue: 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens Bentham House 221 Hong Kong Room University College London London WC1H 0EG There are 3 Documents for this event, click here to view |
10/12/2018 - 10/12/2018 10:30 - 14:30 |
Service Systems Engineering Rolls-Royce plc Whittle House WH73 PO Box 3, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7QE, UK Sat nav postcode - BS34 6QA |
![]() SSE Meeting 33 Agenda
- Reaction/response at ASEC 2018 - Follow on from last meeting - Business case for using Services - Effect on procurement and provision - Updates to draft handbook
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05/12/2018 - 05/12/2018 1700-1830 |
Railway Interest Group 1700H Doors open, 1730H-1830H Event
WSP House, 70 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AF (meeting rooms 1-05/06) |
![]() Migration Strategies – Who Needs Them! A large number of route upgrade programmes that include projects covering disciplines such as signalling, the permanent way, stations, overhead electrification, ticketing, traffic management and other capability improvements are planned within control period 6 within the UK railway industry. These individual improvement programmes shall lead to a step change in capability that require an integrated and united systems engineering process and migration strategy in order to realise their benefits effectively. Programme management processes align project outputs to benefits so that benefit realisation can be managed, measured and delivered. The programmatic, technical, time phasing and assurance approach and benefits realisation should be addressed in an effective Migration Strategy. The Migration Strategy provides the vision and stakeholder agreed guidance to implement and put into service the new integrated capabilities so that objectives are met within the performance, cost, time and risk parameters agreed by stakeholders. However, implementation of these route programmes is not merely complicated, it is complex with multiple dependencies, interactions and emergent behaviours, requiring expensive and comprehensive testing programmes to mitigate the impact. This presentation will highlight these areas of concern and provide systems engineering approaches that complement the programmatics so that major risks can be mitigated and benefit realisation maximised. The System Engineering approaches covered in this presentation are: 1) Modelling and Simulation; 2) Architectural analysis; and 3) Model Based Systems Engineering The objective is to show how these methods could be implemented in a manner that is consistent with a route’s business and renewals strategy and are easy to communicate to stakeholders. The speakers are Mike Morua and Karl King. They are systems engineers and members of INCOSE and are both currently employed at Frazer-Nash Consultancy as Senior Consultants. Both have experience of the development and delivery of large rail projects involving infrastructure, signalling, telecommunications and rolling stock including such complex upgrade projects as ETCS and CBTC systems. Mike has experience in defence telecommunications and energy infrastructure projects and has worked in the US and Australia. Karl has worked on major rail projects, specialising in Command Control and Signalling Programmes, including ERTMS, CBTC and Traffic Management for projects such as Crossrail, Thameslink and the Victoria Line Upgrade Programme. He has also worked on major railway upgrades in the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Germany, USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Mozambique, Guinea, Taiwan, India, Kuala Lumpur, Panama, Brazil, UAE and Israel. The meeting will take place at WSP House, 70 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AF (meeting rooms 1-05/06). There is no charge for attendance and the event is open to non-members but places must be booked in advance. To book, obtain directions or to ask any other questions, please contact RIG Organiser, Michael Morua on m.morua@fnc.co.uk or 07763 455171. The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) is an international professional society for systems engineers whose mission is to foster the definition, understanding, and practice of world-class systems engineering in industry, academia, and government The INCOSE UK Rail Interest Group has been formed:
For further information about the RIG, see www.incoseonline.org.uk and follow the ‘Groups’ link. There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
04/12/2018 - 04/12/2018 18:00 |
North West Frazer-Nash Offices, 5th Floor, Malt Building, Warrington, WA4 6HL
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![]() The Enterprise! The challenge and limitations of Traditional Systems Engineering Methods!
Abstract
Enterprises are highly complex systems of people and technologies that are entities in their own right, which are prone to gross structural inefficiencies and failures to the extent of causing great societal harm and economic loss. Systems engineering (SE) is an interdisciplinary methodology for understanding, designing and enabling system solutions for complex problems and, as such is uniquely suited to offer understanding and solutions in the domain of enterprises.
This presentation includes observations of the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) Programme and the evolving demands for new approaches!
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion session.
Suitable for: Systems Engineers of any level of experience who have an interest in Enterprise Systems.
John Lomax: John Lomax is a Programme Systems Engineer with over 30 years of experience gained mainly across the Aerospace, Defence, and Air-traffic Management Domains, and currently works for Communications, Intelligence & Security (CIS), AIRBUS. He has previously worked for BAE SYSTEMS and
for periods at Lockheed Martin and at the SESAR Joint Undertaking. He has worked in various countries including Saudi Arabia, USA, Belgium, and France. He has recently returned from a 7-year expatriation providing direct Customer Liaison to the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) European Commission Agency of the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) Modernization Programme located in Brussels Belgium. He is an INCOSE CSEP and INCOSE CAR.
There are 2 Documents for this event, click here to view |
21/11/2018 - 21/11/2018 (Day 2) 15:30 - 16:15 |
Early Careers Forum Vincent Building, Cranfield University, Bedford,
MK43 0HG
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![]() ASEC 2018 - Early Careers Forum Meeting “The Year of Engineering” A two-day conference bringing together world-class presenters and practitioners and providing an excellent forum for professional networking. This remains the UK’s premier Systems Engineering event and will feature:
The ECF will be hosting a meeting for all of its members attending ASEC this year. It will provide an opportunity to meet each other and discuss the Forum's priorities and future plans. |
20/11/2018 - 21/11/2018 Full Days |
UK Chapter Vincent Building, Cranfield University |
![]() INCOSE UK Annual Systems Engineering Conference 2018 (ASEC2018) The Annual Systems Engineering Conference (ASEC) is INCOSE UK's flagship annual event and brings together a wider range of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, with the common interest of building up their Systems Engineering knowledge and sharing ideas with their peers. The theme for this year's ASEC is based around the Year of Engineering. We want people to be inspired by what they are doing in their work, whether they are new to Systems Engineering or have many years of experince.
For more information please visit the ASEC2018 website There are 47 Documents for this event, click here to view |
15/11/2018 - 15/11/2018 17:00 - 18:00 |
Early Careers Forum Atkins Offices Bristol
500 Park Ave, Almondsbury,
Bristol BS32 4RZ |
![]() INCOSE UK ECF Committee Meeting |