Systems Engineering Chapter 5: Preliminary and Detailed Design

The Initial Functional Baseline (FBL)

To articulate the needs, analyze and document the system-level requirements flowing from the needs, and to complete a logical design of the system.

The establishment of an Allocated Baseline (ABL)

<p>Conceptual Design (or logical design or problem-domain design)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Design requirements for the system elements that will combine to form the system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system-level logical architecture that serves as the basis for subsequent lower-level design</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allocation of requirements to Configuration Items (CIs).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Defining the subsystems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hierarchical representation of requirements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Elaboration from the system level to the subsystem level until all functions, parameters, and interfaces have been defined.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To define completely the functions required of the major subsystems and necessary resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Streamlines the design process and facilitates systematic development of major system components.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preliminary physical architecture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To tailor each Configuration Item to perform the specific set of requirements assigned to it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The beginning of the conversion of 'what' the system needs to do into 'how' it is going to do it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To define the major subsystems and their assemblies and components.</p> Signup and view all the answers