Project Management

Managing Reliability: Increasingly a Matter of Business Survival with Darcy Brooker

Reliability is important for its effect on capability – that is, our ability to safely perform an activity or achieve an outcome – such that the capability is achieved with the lowest total ownership cost. So, despite often being viewed as a technical field of engineering or logistic support analysis, reliability management is also a …

In Your Own Words with B. Michael Aucoin – Transition from engineer to manager with ease

When Artech House authors write their books, we ask them what they want their readers to get out of the project. In this series, we show you what our authors, in their own words, wish to impart upon readers. B. Michael Aucoin, author of From Engineer to Manager: Mastering the Transition, Second Edition, describes what …

Practical Reliability Data Analysis for Non-Reliability Engineers with Darcy Brooker

Reliability engineering and management primarily focuses on preventing and minimizing failures and their consequences, whether those failures gravely threaten safety, reduce mission effectiveness, or simply increase costs. Most engineering disciplines and systems can effectively use this body of knowledge. But statistical analysis of data is perhaps the area of reliability engineering that discourages the most people. …

ISE&PPOOA Methodology at the INCOSE UK MBSE Group with Jose Fernandez

Artech House author Jose Fernandez presented this fascinating information as a webinar in April 2020, read on for more: ISE&PPOOA Methodology Webinar April 29 2020 To watch the webinar, click here. Article author and bio: Jose L. Fernandez was an associate professor teaching project management, requirements engineering and systems engineering at the Technical University of Madrid. …

The Importance of Customer Feedback with Robert Frey

When purchasing a book, many potential customers rely on the good things people who have already read the book have to say. Rediscover a classic Artech House title, Successful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses: Using Knowledge Management to Win Government, Private-Sector, and International Contracts, Sixth Edition, by Robert Frey, through the eyes of readers who enjoyed …

Model-Based Systems Engineering with Jose Fernandez and Carlos Hernandez

Jose Fernandez and Carlos Hernandez, authors of Practical Model-Based Systems Engineering in our Engineering Management series, took a moment to give us a deeper understanding of their book and why they wrote it: Development of current technical systems in aerospace, process industry or robotics requires novel systems engineering practices. The modern Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) …