Duration
2 days or 4 half-days (16 hours)
Level
Practitioner
Access
Public enrolment · Private / corporate
Delivery
Face-to-face · Live online
Sessions and enrolment
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Price
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Presented by
Paul Davies
Certification / credential
Suitable for CPD records
International delivery
Global delivery available

About this course

A 16-hour course on defining and managing interfaces between system elements and between organisations. It explains eight practices used by leading enterprises, and covers interface identification, definition and control, interface management planning, sources of interface complexity (including the Integration Readiness Level scale) and managing change across interfaces. It is focused on engineered physical systems but relevant to software and human interfaces.

Presented by

Who should attend

  • Engineers and technical managers developing technology-based systems, especially with demanding interoperability needs
  • Design, hardware, integration and industrial engineers; enterprise architects; Interface Control Working Group members
  • Project managers and operations executives

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the place of interface engineering in the holistic lifecycle.
  • Explain the need for interface definition and management and its impact on system integrity.
  • Identify, define and control system and system-element interfaces, applied to a case study.
  • Plan interface management and define processes and tools to monitor and control it.
  • Describe sources of interface complexity and assess their impact using the Integration Readiness Level scale.
  • Identify and manage the consequences of interface changes.

Certificate of completion

Certificate upon completion.

Certification and professional development

PPI states that the course may be credited towards maintenance of INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification for 16 Professional Development Units, qualifies for 16 hours of Engineers Australia and Engineering New Zealand CPD, and that PMI PDUs may be claimed.

Certification relevance indicates subject-matter relevance only. It does not imply accreditation, formal alignment or endorsement by any certifying body.

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