To outsource or not to outsource data collection, management and analysis for military platforms? This is the question we will attempt to answer in this short blog. Data-driven business models hinge on products that bring manufacturers and users together in mutually beneficial ways. Independently of market sector, almost all new products contain plenty of software…
A few years ago, our company was given the task of simulating bank mergers. From a pool of several hundred banks we simulated hundreds of mergers – large banks with large banks, small ones with large ones, mid-size banks with large banks and with small ones. This result was extraordinary and remarkable to say the…
The evolution of man, ever since the first hominids appeared, has been driven and characterized by numerous factors of diverse nature, such as geography, climate, ethnicity, superstitions and, with time, religion, art, science and philosophy, just to name a few. However, the common thread that may be observed throughout history is the formation of structures…
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Contemporary real time system monitoring appears to be the same in each discipline and field of application. Whether it is an aircraft, a chemical plant, a hospitalized patient or an assembly line, the logic is always the same: Deploy a set of sensors Establish admissible upper and lower bounds for each sensor (channel) Define a…
Jacek Marczyk Ph.D., Balachandra Deshpande Ph.D. (2007) 1. Introduction The study of complex systems such as the biosphere, gene expression data or the climate, has led to an increased understanding of their behaviour and characteristics and only now are we appreciating their overwhelming complexity. One common denominator of all these systems is, obviously, complexity. However,…
The complexity of modern products, as well as the associated manufacturing processes, has increased over the past few decades and there is evidence the trend will continue. Complexity means functionality. Consider how many things can be done with smartphones, in addition to making phone calls. Think of automobiles, which can maintain distance from the car…
1. Introduction The trend to articulate product offering is putting pressure on manufacturing companies like never before. Therefore, the complexity of modern products and of the associated manufacturing processes is rapidly increasing. High complexity, as we know, is a prelude to vulnerability. It is a fact that in all spheres of social life excessive complexity…
For applications requiring ultra-fast on-board monitoring of critical components, systems or infrastructures, Ontonix offers a Complexity And Health Monitoring System (CAHMS) – a device that can be mounted on cars, aircraft, submarines, helicopters or missiles or on any mission-critical equipment and deliver early warning signals of imminent systemic malfunctions. The CAHMS can be interfaced to…
There is a tendency to regard the phrase “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” as a (sort of) definition of “complex systems” by those who claim to “study complexity”. Curiously enough, the said “complexity scientists” engage in an exercise which, inexplicably, does not contemplate a measure of the object of their…
