| Date/Time | Organisation & Location | Description |
25/05/2010 -
25/05/2010
Early Evening | Railway Interest Group
Parsons Brinckerhoff's offices at 6 Devonshire Square, London | "The Application of SE to the Tender Phase of a Major Project", Garry Greenland, Parsons Brinckerhoff
There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
11/05/2010 -
11/05/2010
Early Evening | Railway Interest Group
Finnmeccanica, 39 Victoria Street, LONDON, SW1H 0EU | "The Roots of Systems Engineering", Eddie Goddard, LU.
This is the new date for this event, previously the 16/03/2010.
There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
20/04/2010 -
20/04/2010
1730H for 1800H | Railway Interest Group
UCL's Engineering Building, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE | Nimrod and the MoD: missed opportunities and
lessons for rail
Nigel Murphy, Technical Director of Atkins Rail Systems Consultancy, will be relating the
findings from a recent review conducted for the DfT. This examined transferable lessons from
experience in the defence sector, including the recent Nimrod inquiry, for the management of
safety and integrity and for the delivery of major complex programmes in rail. The current
economic background poses challenges for the rail sector and these have implications for the
effective delivery of rail's investment portfolio. Furthermore, increasingly aged legacy systems
in rail generate real challenges for the systems engineer. Atkins' team on this review
comprised a cross section of defence, rail and systems specialists as well as transport
economics and planning professionals. It promises to be a stimulating and indeed thoughprovoking
insight into how we might learn from failure and the sacrifice of others.
There is 1 Document for this event, click here to view |
16/02/2010 -
16/02/2010
| Railway Interest Group
Arup, Fitzroy Street, London | "Systems Engineering and the UK Transport System"
Duncan Kemp, the lead systems engineer for rail in the Department for Transport, will
discuss the role of systems engineering in DfT.
Duncan will outline the systems engineering challenges that the DfT is facing and some of
the approaches they are using to ensure a whole of life, whole systems approach to rail.
There are 2 Document(s) for this event, click here to view |
02/02/2010 -
02/02/2010
17:00 for 17:30 | Railway Interest Group
The Duke of York, 47 Rathbone Street, London W1T1NQ | How not to do Systems Engineering
Until now, Rail Interest Group events have been designed to serve positive systems engineers who are working hard to make their project a success. We are now pleased to provide an event for the community of project saboteurs.
In the informal environment of the function room at the Duke of York pub in Fitzrovia, a
number of experienced systems engineers will describe their favoured systems-related
method of bringing a project to its knees. There will then be an opportunity for members to
describe their own preferred methods and a discussion on which is most effective.
The event will finish at 1830H but informal discussions may continue over a drink or two.
There are 2 Document(s) for this event, click here to view |
11/11/2009 -
11/11/2009
All day | Railway Interest Group
IET's premises in Savoy Place, London | Systems Engineering in Railways
The INCOSE UK Rail Interest Group (RIG) is proud to be working with the IET to put on a one-day seminar at the IET's premises in Savoy Place, London on 11th November 2009 in 'Systems Engineering in Railways'.
The seminar, delivered by senior figures within the rail industry, will illustrate the manner in which systems engineering techniques are becoming increasingly essential for modern railway engineers. Subtitled ‘Making it work for you’, the seminar will be of value to anyone needing to understand the benefits of systems engineering techniques in a railway environment as well as providing an opportunity for systems engineers to explore the current state of the art in rail systems engineering.
There is an optional ,pre-seminar tutorial to ensure that the seminar is fully accessible to the non-expert so, after you have taken a look yourself, please consider passing the details on to any colleagues who might benefit from a better appreciation of systems engineering in railways. The programme is available at http://www.theiet.org/events/2009/systems-engineering-prog-280909.pdf and more general details are on the IET web-site at http://www.theiet.org/events/2009/railway-systems.cfm. You will also find details of how to book your place at the seminar on this page. Please note that you cannot book for this event via INCOSE UK - the IET is handling all bookings. If you cannot find the answer to your question on one of these web pages, please contact the RIG Chair, Bruce Elliott on bruce.elliott@arbutus-tc.co.uk |
16/09/2009 -
16/09/2009
17:00hrs | Railway Interest Group
13 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ | AGM
Railway Interest Group's Annual General Meeting |
16/09/2009 -
16/09/2009
17:30 | Railway Interest Group
Arup’s offices in 13 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ | The Systems Engineering Competency
Framework and Guidelines and How They Could be Applied to Rail
The Systems Engineering Competency Framework and Guidelines documents were
developed in response to an issue identified by the INCOSE UK Advisory Board
(UKAB).whose member organisations wanted a common language with which to describe
and discuss the competencies that are required to conduct good systems engineering. The
objective was ‘to have a measurable set of competencies for systems engineering which will
achieve national recognition and will be useful to the enterprises represented by the UKAB’.
There are 2 Document(s) for this event, click here to view |
11/06/2009 -
11/06/2009
1700H for 1730H | Railway Interest Group
Atkins’s offices at Euston Tower 126 Euston Road London NW1 3AT | Towards Visualisations of Configuration
Management
One of the principal areas of concern for
managing large programmes is the
management of risk associated with change.
The central issue is one of communication.
This presentation proposes better methods of
communicating change. An illustration of this
is shown using the Victoria Line Upgrade
project, where a visualisation of the
configuration has improved communication.
Areas of success are highlighted and a
number of improvement areas identified.
There are 2 Document(s) for this event, click here to view |
21/05/2009 -
21/05/2009
1700H for 1730H | Railway Interest Group
SELEX Systems Integrations offices 84-86 Great Portland Street, London
W1W 7NR | EA, IA, O – Enterprise Architecture in the Rail
Domain
Systems Engineering was introduced to manage the complexity risk in large projects to replace, merge, augment and transition major mission critical systems.
The success of SE has allowed more difficult and risky projects to be tackled which in turn has stimulated additional disciplines. This evolutionary cycle promises approaches to more “wicked” problems in “complex adaptive systems” as seen in the non-military evolution of “business capability” involving people, competencies and technical systems.
The presentation will explore the challenges of the expanded problem domain and attempt to position the relationships between the disciplines.
There are 3 Document(s) for this event, click here to view |
