Systems Engineering requires a toolbox of “Systems Tools” that will allow the team to understand customer requirements, explore design options, optimise designs, make designs robust, validate design and realise system designs. Systems Tools are primarily concerned with generating and managing information.
A few Systems Tools are: - Systemic Textual Analysis - Viewpoint Analysis - Functional Modelling - Nead Means Analysis - Functional Failure Mode and Effects Analysis - Quality Function Deployment - Function Means Analysis - N2 Analysis - Pugh Matrix - Holistic Requirements Model - Stakeholder Map - Matrix Diagram - Affinity Diagrams - Context Diagram