Objectives

Designing safely and cost-effectively while meeting customer needs, specifying and realizing the requirements for a complex system, structuring and organizing feedback... these are just some of the concerns that contractors and industrialists face in their daily activities.

The objectives are to initiate or improve participants' skills through theoretical courses and practical examples in various functional analysis methods.

Program

Introduction to value analysis (VA)

• Concepts and definitions
• The VA approach
• Implementing VA

Introduction to functional analysis

The major foundations governing the control of performance and costs in terms of specification, design and implementation:

• Context of the evolution of industrial practices: the challenges
• Complexity of systems and the network of stakeholders: technical and organizational interfaces
• The necessity to properly frame the problem before solving it
• Mastering solutions: controlling costs, deadlines and risks
• Functional reasoning as a common thread and shared language among stakeholders

Specification and analysis tools

• Principles of functional analysis
• Links with the value analysis approach
• Life cycle phases for a product, process or information system
• External functional analysis:
  • Functional expression of needs
  • System definition: products, processes, services, organizations and usage scenarios
  • Development of functional specification

• Internal functional analysis: connections to dependability: Preliminary Risk Analysis, FMEA and FTA
• Application domains of the different methods based on system specificities and objectives to be achieved
• Case studies

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