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Bas Koomen
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Technical Director at Cadmes
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Additional Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Roel van Os<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Demystifying Systems Engineering from Scratch: A
\nMultidisciplinary Case Study of a “Useless Box” Using the
\nRFLP Methodology
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Bio.
\n<\/strong>Bas Koomen<\/span> is Technical Director at Cadmes and has more than 30 years of experience helping manufacturing companies improve their product development processes through the implementation of CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM, and PLM solutions. Throughout his career, he has worked predominantly with small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, supporting their transition from traditional engineering practices to digitally connected product development environments. \u00a0 His expertise lies at the intersection of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), digital transformation, and business process improvement. He advises organizations on how to leverage engineering data, collaboration platforms, and digital technologies to increase efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness. In addition to his industry role, Bas conducts doctoral research into the evolution of PLM value propositions for manufacturing SMEs and regularly contributes to discussions on digital transformation in industry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Abstract.
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Systems Engineering (SE) training and literature often rely
\non retrospective case studies of large-scale,
\nsafety-critical aerospace or infrastructure projects. In
\nthese examples, the problem space is clean and the solution
\npath is predefined. While illustrative, this creates a
\nsignificant pedagogical gap: it inadvertently signals to
\npractitioners that SE introduces unnecessary overhead
\nrather than tangible value, and it fails to convey why
\nspecific SE steps are taken or how they guide design
\ndecisions in real-time. Consequently, the SE community
\nlacks accessible, small-scale, “from-scratch” benchmarks
\nthat demonstrate the immediate return on investment (ROI)
\nof SE in rapid, multidisciplinary product development. To
\nbridge this gap, this paper presents a comprehensive SE
\ncase study centered on a highly relatable, mechatronic
\nsystem: a “Useless Box”\u2014a device whose sole function is to
\nflip its own power switch off after a user turns it on.<\/p>\n

By utilizing a small-scale yet complex device, we
\ndemonstrate how SE methodology drives co-design across
\nmechanical, electrical, and software domains without the
\nweight of traditional administrative overhead. The project
\nwas executed within the 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA environment,
\nstrictly adhering to the Requirements, Functional, Logical,
\nand Physical (RFLP) methodology. The physical architecture
\nintegrates a 3D-printed chassis, an Arduino controller,
\nservo motors, and electronic components, while the software
\nis driven by Arduino C++ code. Furthermore, Modelica was
\nused to simulate system behavior and test human-machine
\ninteraction (HMI) virtually before physical prototyping.<\/p>\n

Our findings yield two critical insights that address
\ncurrent limitations in SE education. First, the active,
\nreal-time maintenance of requirements emerged not as a
\nstatic administrative burden, but as a dynamic tool that
\ndirectly prevented integration conflicts between hardware
\nand software during rapid design iterations. Second,
\nbehavioral simulation allowed for the virtual prototyping
\nof nuanced, “human-like” interaction patterns,
\nsignificantly shortening the physical debugging phase.
\nUltimately, this paper fills a crucial gap by translating
\ncomplex, enterprise-level SE principles into an engaging,
\nstorytelling format. It offers the SE community a scalable
\npedagogical tool and a powerful narrative to demonstrate
\nthat SE is not a barrier to agility, but an enabler of
\nsuccessful multi-disciplinary innovation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bas Koomen Technical Director at Cadmes Additional Speakers Roel van Os Demystifying Systems Engineering from Scratch: A Multidisciplinary Case Study of a “Useless Box” Using the RFLP Methodology Bio. Bas Koomen is Technical Director at Cadmes and has more than 30 years of experience helping manufacturing companies improve their product development processes through the implementation...","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"parent":13872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15277\/revisions\/15280"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incose.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}