When engineering cyber-physical systems, the implementation technology is hardware, software, and humans in the system. When working in the process and enterprise domain, implementation takes the form of enhanced processes, policies, procedures, and organization. While the form may be different, the concepts remain the same: properly understanding the problem, aligning the architecture to the requirements, process design and allocation, good interface design, and management. By improving a process, systems engineers often discover that they dramatically cut the process time and, in the process, improve accuracy as well as identify unforeseen benefits of the new design. Whereas, by trying to hotwire shortcuts, you often create problems.

While the fundamental concepts remain the same whether you are engineering a cyber-physical system or a process framework, detailed concerns are different. Nuances which may prove valuable when specifying hardware and software subsystems can easily become distractions and impediments when working in the enterprise domain. Developed in the language of systems with a modern user interface, Vitech tools natively support the needs of the process engineer and enterprise architect. From this proven foundation, you can alias and extend terminology where necessary to perfectly align with your domain. Reduce the learning curve, and see direct benefits in weeks, not months. Seamlessly scale up or down to match the challenge at hand and maximize your effectiveness.

Regardless of the domain, good systems engineering seeks to unlock the collective intelligence of the team early to make good decisions beginning on day one of the program. Good communication recognizes that different team members visualize and consume information differently. With rich and powerful view generators built upon the solid foundation of a proven information model, GENESYS autogenerates diagrams, tables, and reports on demand with guaranteed consistency. Get the best of both worlds—powerful engineering with embedded simulation combined with diverse representations that enable you to effectively engage team members and stakeholders in their format and their language.

Occasionally you have the opportunity to engineer a brand-new process or enterprise unit. More often, you have the challenge of “re-building the plane in flight”—evolving and transforming an existing process framework to better meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Quickly capture and validate the “as is” of today—current processes, their allocation, the corresponding requirements and constraints—to start from a solid foundation. Understand interactions and dependencies—between processes, exchanges, and teams—to avoid critical omissions. Consider new requirements and processes with the confidence of good impact analysis informed by bi-directional traceability and native process simulation. Confidently map your journey, allocating different changes to different phases with full insight into process and enterprise dependencies.

Founded on good systems engineering principles, Vitech tools help you engineer the right processes, mapping them to their requirements and implementation. But good process and enterprise architecture is not static documentation sitting on the shelf. It’s a living representation, evolving to reflect the reality of today’s implementation and the planned upgrades of tomorrow. With updated diagrams and documents generated on demand, Vitech tools enable you to focus on engineering your processes rather than updating your artifacts. Leverage the analytical framework and inherent consistency to accelerate your engineering as you delegate the bookkeeping and artifact maintenance to the tool.