How to Distinguish Innovation from Fragmentation?
Innovation is the result of R&D which is something that requires vision, strategy, leadership, will-power, money, persistence, continuity. Vision requiresContinue Reading
Category: Engineering
Car electronics: how much more complexity can we handle?
As we know, excessive complexity is a formidable source of fragility. If you want to make something fragile, make itContinue Reading
Building a “Complexity Management Device”
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for anyone making interactive projects,Continue Reading
Using Complexity to Measure Images
Recently revealed analysis of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) data has delivered images of unseen quality. The images ofContinue Reading
Manage Design Complexity in Engineering
The commentary on complexity management by J.Marczyk has been published on December 1-st, 2014 in Desktop Engineering. See original articleContinue Reading
The F35 – Too Complex To Succeed?
A recent article on the troubles and tribulations of the F 35 fighter claims that: “… this flying supercomputer …..isContinue Reading
Measuring the Complexity of Sounds and Music
Have you ever wondered how complex a sound is? Our brain is fairly good at recognizing sounds or pieces ofContinue Reading
Risk = Probability X Consequences. Really?
(image from http://www.impactlab.net) Probably the most frequently used definition of risk is this one: Risk = the Probability ofContinue Reading
Why Can’t Huge Problems be Solved (Anymore)?
Before you start to solve a problem (a numerical problem) you should check its conditioning. An ill-conditioned problem will produceContinue Reading
Optimal Does NOT Mean Best
In the second half of the twentieth century it has become very popular to seek optimal solutions to a broadContinue Reading
