ABSTRACT
According to systems engineering and analysis, systems engineering is “A top-down approach that views the system as a whole” (Blanchard and Fabrycky 2010). Systems engineering integrates all phases of the life-cycle development effort and unites diverse disciplines, organizations, and groups into a cohesive team. It also provides a structured design and development process that consists of the conceptual design phase, preliminary design phase, and the detailed design and development phase (Ascendant Concepts LLC-Home 2013). There are three main elements of a system during these three design phases: the parts of a system, attributes or properties of the components, and relationships or how the components are connected. The production/manufacturing/construction phase, operations and support phase, and the system retirement and disposal phase make up the remainder of the standard systems engineering life-cycle phases. Requirements allocation activities are fundamentally connected to the design activities during the three systems engineering design phases mentioned earlier, and so we focus our attention on these three design phases.
