Enterprise Systems Engineering

Enterprises are complex systems constantly seeking to adapt to the shifting environment. This book develops and validates a Framework for Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE), which guides the engineering of an enterprise throughout its life cycle and highlights that an integrated enterprise is a system that creates value for its customers. The framework serves to management and engineering in their requirement for new model-based methods that support this enterprise need for adaptation and change. The framework intertwines a definition for ESE, setting its boundaries with respect to other disciplines; a classification scheme that remarks the different areas of study that ESE needs to address and breaks down an enterprise system into four elements, viewed through four system facets; each element-facet combination is subject to an engineering process to achieve a pre-specified performance. The book highlights the need for extensive research in ESE if it is to grow as a field and become the source of concepts, methodologies and tools to design, improve, and redesign enterprises of the 21st century.

Oscar A. Saenz. Obtained a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Florida International University and an MBA from INCAE Business School. Dr. Saenz has worked as project manager for more than seventeen years. He is a regular faculty and Director of the Industrial and Management Engineering Department at Universidad del Turabo in Puerto Rico.