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Engineering Systems Integration
Consequently, system design and architecture are profoundly important to
integration. The system architecture is a comprehensive statement of the system’s physical configuration and connectivity in terms of its infrastructure of
objects (and their mechanisms), support for EMMI, provisos for functions,
preference for various performances, and origins and impetuses for losses.
The social situation of human-built systems requires integration to accommodate environments and behaviors beyond that of any single discipline.
Systems integration is the unification of the objects and their interactions
of energy, matter, material wealth, and information to provide systemlevel functionalities and performances.
The systems integrator is concerned with connecting objects through
EMMI to provide the requisite emergent properties and attributes.
Axioms of Integration
First axiom—inaction: An object that does not interact with another object
cannot be integrated. An object that interacts with another object can be subject to integration, under certain conditions. However, conditions must be
right for integration. We consider four types of conditions: conditions that
relate to boundaries of functions, objects, and behaviors due to objects (or in
anticipation of objects); conditions within each of the interacting objects that
cause or enable the continuance of mechanisms whether in their operative or
initial phase of action; conditions that maintain the isotropic properties of
the objects; and conditions that satisfy the constraints imposed by the releases.
That is also to say that for integration to occur the conditions must support
it. In nature, the conditions appear to be predicated on low-energy interactions, sometimes initiated with one-time actions of substantial energy.
Second axiom—action: An object that interacts with another object releases
(gives up or loses) EMMI. Friction (due to mechanical drag, electromagnetic
fields, gravitational fields, and molecular bonding) counters forces. There is
no free lunch. You must lose something to do something. Perpetual motion
is impossible. Integration of objects must consider the losses due to the
actions of integration and the results of integration. Integration results in a
loss caused by the collective releases and acceptances of energy, matter,
material wealth, or information.
Third axiom—mechanisms: An object is enabled through the properties and
traits of its structure. The intrinsic makeup and circumstances of structures
is influenceable by forces (EMMI) to change or be restored. The result is to
transform EMMI that is incident onto an object into an output across the
physical boundary of that object.
Fourth axiom—interaction: An object that releases energy, matter, material
wealth, or information in time or space as a consequence of another object is
Engineering Systems Integration
Consequently, system design and architecture are profoundly important to
integration. The system architecture is a comprehensive statement of the system’s physical configuration and connectivity in terms of its infrastructure of
objects (and their mechanisms), support for EMMI, provisos for functions,
preference for various performances, and origins and impetuses for losses.
The social situation of human-built systems requires integration to accommodate environments and behaviors beyond that of any single discipline.
Systems integration is the unification of the objects and their interactions
of energy, matter, material wealth, and information to provide systemlevel functionalities and performances.
The systems integrator is concerned with connecting objects through
EMMI to provide the requisite emergent properties and attributes.
Axioms of Integration
First axiom—inaction: An object that does not interact with another object
cannot be integrated. An object that interacts with another object can be subject to integration, under certain conditions. However, conditions must be
right for integration. We consider four types of conditions: conditions that
relate to boundaries of functions, objects, and behaviors due to objects (or in
anticipation of objects); conditions within each of the interacting objects that
cause or enable the continuance of mechanisms whether in their operative or
initial phase of action; conditions that maintain the isotropic properties of
the objects; and conditions that satisfy the constraints imposed by the releases.
That is also to say that for integration to occur the conditions must support
it. In nature, the conditions appear to be predicated on low-energy interactions, sometimes initiated with one-time actions of substantial energy.
Second axiom—action: An object that interacts with another object releases
(gives up or loses) EMMI. Friction (due to mechanical drag, electromagnetic
fields, gravitational fields, and molecular bonding) counters forces. There is
no free lunch. You must lose something to do something. Perpetual motion
is impossible. Integration of objects must consider the losses due to the
actions of integration and the results of integration. Integration results in a
loss caused by the collective releases and acceptances of energy, matter,
material wealth, or information.
Third axiom—mechanisms: An object is enabled through the properties and
traits of its structure. The intrinsic makeup and circumstances of structures
is influenceable by forces (EMMI) to change or be restored. The result is to
transform EMMI that is incident onto an object into an output across the
physical boundary of that object.
Fourth axiom—interaction: An object that releases energy, matter, material
wealth, or information in time or space as a consequence of another object is