Systems Engineering
System engineering can best be explained as coordinating multiple tasks within the two disciplines of engineering and engineering management. This paper highlights the systems method of coordinated tasks and its relevance concerning current and future business system life cycles: concept, design, planning, testing, optimization, and deployment. It defines the boundaries necessary for a robust life cycle and analysis to occur.
4. Requirements Types
4.9 Sustainability
Sustainability is the capacity of a system to endure. For example, does a system consume a scarce resource or generate a waste output that limits its long term use? If so, it is not sustainable over the long term, although it may last a desired system life. A current example is hydrocarbon fueled rockets. If obtained from fossil sources, they are both limited in supply, and cause unwanted change to the atmosphere. If they are produced as a biofuel, they can be sustainable.