What does Trade-off mean?
Trade-off means to involve a choice or exchange for one quality over another.
What is a complex system?
A complex system is a system whose properties are not fully explained by an understanding of its component parts.
What is Constraints?
Limitations on a design.
What is the most complex forms of systems?
Social system
What is a closed-loop system?
A control system that uses feedback from the output to control the input
What is Quality Control?
Quality Control is concerned with how well a product, service, or system conforms to specifications
Complex systems can be either?
Open-loop or closed-loop
What is a Criteria?
Desired elements and features of a product or system
What does environment mean?
A complex of surrounding circumstances, conditions, or influences in which a thing is situated or is developed.
What is an open-loop system?
Control system that has no means for comparing the output with input.
What is opportunity cost?
The second-best alternative (or the value of that
alternative) that must be given up when scarce
resources are used for one purpose instead of
another.
The more parts and connections in a system, the more likely it is that?
Something may not work properly
Identifying criteria and specifying constraints will provide the?
Basis for what the design should be and what its limits are.
What is an environmental system?
Series of interconnected compartments through which material and/or energy flow
What does open-loop systems require
Human invervention
Optimization is a process or methodology of designing or making a product, process, or system to the point at which it is the most fully functional, effective, or as near perfection as possible.
Human intervention may be necessary at some point to?
Correct malfunctions in a complex system.
Throughout the design process, designers must constantly compare the solution to the?
Criteria and constraints of the problem.
What is a social system?
Set of interrelated units that are engaged in joint problem solving to accomplish common goals
What is a immediate output?
Products or services designed for instant use
What is optimization used for?
Optimization is used for a specific design purpose to enhance or to make small gains in desirable characteristics.
Complex systems consist of?
A large number of mutually interacting and interwoven parts, entities or agents.
Constraints may be such things as?
Appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities.
What are the 9 core technologies?
Successful interfacing of sub-systems is called?
Systems integration