Architecture & platform creation through  a structured systems engineering approach

Our approach to Systems Engineering and Architecture Definition is highly structured. It embeds reliability and predictability into any design, while allowing you to insert maximum creativity where you need it to create your competitive edge.

With your roadmap in mind, we define a flexible modular architecture that facilitates maximum re-use of independently testable modules within platforms and systems. A clear flow-down of critical-to-quality requirements is built in – from module definitions through to interface definitions leading into verification plans. This ensures that modifications and upgrades can later easily be made without requiring significant overall redesign and testing.

For you, this simplifies and speeds up the design processes, enables faster and easier customization, minimizes parts diversity, and makes lifetime maintenance much easier. Our Systems Engineering and Architecture Definition approach can be applied in both new-design trajectories and portfolio/product optimization. In both cases, it has an outstanding ‘first-time-right’ track record, with few-to-no surprises during validation.

How we deliver Systems Engineering and Architecture Definition

• Our experienced architects and technical experts have significant hands-on customer experience and outstanding track records. They know the pitfalls of unnecessary complexity and how to remove it from projects.
• An extensive competence toolbox will be applied to enable reuse of experience in similar applications to your benefit.
• Our senior architects will start by (jointly with your experts) clearly defining the Critical to Quality requirements and then move on with decomposing your system in optimal modules. They apply tools like error budgeting and rigorous requirements and interface management to define the optimal verification and validation strategy.
• Post-project knowledge and documentation (DHF, DMR) transfer puts complete control and troubleshooting abilities into your hands.
• Within Philips, we champion this way of working through the Systems Engineering Center of Expertise.
• Project execution often takes places in collaboration with your professionals. Sometimes our architects will be embedded in your team – but we can also work independently for you.

Key area of expertise

High Precision Engineering ›

 

Our Systems Engineering and Architecture Definition service applies state-of-the-art tools and best practices:

• Design for Excellence (DfX)
• Customer Objectives, Application, Functional, Conceptual, Realization (CAFCR)
• Requirements engineering & management
• V-model
• Tech assessments
• Technical budgeting ›
• Modular design
• Interface definition & management