Tenorio, Mark Lester D. Engr. Ronald S.

Mariano
Systems Engineering Professor

Activity # 1

Based on the introductory video you have watched, write a short reflection/reaction
about system life cycle engineering. (10 points). 

System Life Cycle Analysis is a more detailed plan on how to look on things or problem in a
completely different approach. By using different tools a system design engineer can figure out
what are the best solutions or innovation a certain product, system or design really needs in
order for it to be optimal. There are 5 steps to consider when you are doing your life cycle
analysis. They are:

 Defining The problem as a whole.

Defining a problem not only on your perspective but in every angle possible.
What are the possible cause and what are the possible improvement or repair in
each cause should be accounted for.

 Priorities And Objectives

Know the key points that you think you need to prioritized by weighing what are
the needs of the consumer or the user of your said product or system. Identifying
objectives on how to do these improvements and why are we making these
improvements are very vital in this stage.

 Brainstorming
Brainstorming is very important in order to have a collective idea on how to attack
a certain plan or design having to take all contingencies you and your team might
cross along the way is a good start on making a good system improvement or
innovation. Having to argue your ideas as a team helps you to come up with
better solutions.

 Use of Metrics to evaluate for solutions

We should set standards on how can we say our plans are already good or
enough comparing different solution and benchmarking them, we can clearly see
what solutions are the most optimal and what route should we take from that
particular solution.

 Repeat
Trial And Error, tho time consuming and very costly, it is very important that we
should test our improvements or innovations to see how it feats on a real world
setup. Sometimes simulations are just but a glimpse of what may happen while
we are running the system or product but testing the product or systems itself
can show us what are the actual response of the system or product given a
random phenomena.