Using Model-Based Systems Engineering Concepts to Increase Efficiency and Inherent Safety in Common Industrial Practices and Processes

Systems engineering concepts are valuable to pinpointing areas where an increase of efficiency and inherent safety is needed, as proven by the increases in these areas in designing an IoT system for a CNC Manufacturing process, in redesigning risk matrices to improve their accuracy and effectiveness, and in using SysML to determine how probability of hazards change with changing system states. Using a Model-Based systems engineering approach was greatly valuable in designing an IoT system for a CNC Manufacturing process as quickly and efficiently as possible, as it allowed the requirements to be laid out and for use-cases, structural items, and behaviors to be specifically designed to make sure to satisfy those requirements. The process was organized by SysML, which was also valuable in developing a system in which the hazard probability changed with the system states to provide additional, critical context to safety incident test data. The parameters were dependent on the measurements established to determine the effectiveness of the system, and that same concept of using requirements and establishing measurements was used to improve the measuring process itself in the form of improving the risk matrix and being able to better determine the overall risk of all the combined hazards of a system. All in all, using systems engineering concepts helps to identify what is missing in a system, helps to define how to measure and validate the attempts to meet the requirements of that system, and can even be used to measure and validate the measurement process itself.