Architecture Design Courses

Course Overview

This five-day course covers the concepts and practices of design, regardless of what is being developed. The study, which is primarily a workshop, gives an integrated approach to the set of technical design process disciplines. These integrate with technical expertise to contribute to requirement satisfaction and system effectiveness, boosting project success and lowering corporate risk.

The course focuses on model-based design in both theory and practice, with no commitment to a single modeling language or software tool. The course delves into the reality of existing modeling languages and tools, as well as how model-based design is moving. In a workshop approach, participants get expertise with functional and state-based design, as well as their link to physical design. The basis of decision-making between viable design options (i.e., the performance of trade-off studies) is substantially exercised in the third key feature of the design. Trade-off analyses are then included in a very successful three-stage design optimization technique. The course also covers the disciplines of reliability Engineering, safety engineering, maintainability engineering, and producibility engineering in an introductory but substantial manner. and their connection to physical design

Key Learning Objectives

After this course, participants are expected to have learned:

• the overall concepts which are characteristic of a systems approach to design;
• the overall process elements, and their relationships, that collectively constitute the process building blocks of design (verb);
• learn a structured approach to the physical design, use logical solutions to help get the physical design right, evaluate solution alternatives (conduct trade-off studies) and optimize the design in a structured way;
• learn an overview about the disciplines of reliability engineering, safety engineering, maintainability engineering, and producibility (manufacturability) engineering;
• how to tailor the application of design principles and methods to different application scenarios; and
• how to design for reliability, safety, maintainability, and producibility.

Training Method and Materials

The course makes extensive use of course workshops to put into practice the techniques covered in theory sessions.

The course is delivered using a mixture of formal presentation, informal discussion, and extensive workshops that exercise key aspects of a systems approach to design, using a single system throughout. The result is a high degree of learning, as evidenced by workshop work products, and the extensive commendations received from past participants.

Participants will be provided with:

• comprehensive course materials containing presentation material and supporting reading material;
• numerous supplementary descriptions, checklists, forms, and charts which you can put to use immediately; and

Some Key Questions

• What is architecture?
• Is architecture different to design?
• What is a systems approach to designing and how is it relevant?
• What is the relevance of waterfall development, incremental development, evolutionary development, agile, spiral development, and simultaneous/concurrent engineering?
• What is the timing relationship between logical and physical design?
• What is a logical design, and what forms can it take?
• Why do we care about logical design?
• What is model-based architecting? Model-based design? Are model-based and model-driven different?
• What is object-oriented design and how does it relate?
• What languages and tools are applicable for model-based work?
• Where does FMEA figure?
• Is FMECA different from FMEA?
• What about FTA and ETA, where do they figure?
• Are model-based techniques limited to certain technologies?
• How can we be sure we have come up with the best design?
• Everywhere I turn there seems to be uncertainty. How can I make design decisions in the presence of such uncertainty?
• Is there a reliable and efficient way to optimize design?
• How do I design for reliability?
• How do I design for safety?
• How do I design for maintainability?
• How do I design for producibility?
• What are the Skills, Knowledge, and Attitudes (SKUs) conducive to success in being a designer?