The INCOSE UK Rail Interest Group (RIG) has been operating now for more than 15 years. During that time we have heard presentations on a vast array of experience. It seems time for us to reflect on what we have learnt from that and to make those lessons available to those who have influence on how rail projects are run. The RIG Committee has started to accumulate a list of lessons learned, drawing upon the committee members’ experience. Now we would like to tap into the knowledge and experience of the full membership of the RIG. This 90-minute-long event will not be a traditional presentation. Members of the RIG committee will present the objectives of the exercise and, as a starting point for discussion, the committee’s list of lessons learned. The majority of the time, however, will be spent hearing proposals from the participants for amendments (addition, deletions or revisions) to the list and voting on these amendments. At the end of the session, we hope to have a better list that all participants can support. Participants in the discussion will receive further briefing material shortly before the event. The results of the discussion will be recorded and made available to the entire RIG membership. We will also be looking for an opportunity to publish the results more widely, so, by participating in this event, you will have the opportunity to help decision-makers make decisions about projects that will result in more effective SE and better outcomes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to be involved, please register your interest with Bruce Elliott, bruce.elliott@altran.com .

Join us for an after-work session where we will review the year gone by (including survey results) and discuss plans for the year ahead! There will also be opportunities to meet and socialise with other ECF members and guests. When is it? 17th of December What time? 17:00-19:00  Who can come? Everyone is welcome! Please feel free to invite others you work with or think would like to find out more about the ECF. How to sign up: Please register your interest through our event invite.  We will be releasing more updates in the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled but if you have any questions, please get in touch via ecfchair@incoseuk.org

The INCOSE UK Rail Interest Group (RIG) has been operating now for more than 15 years. During that time we have heard presentations on a vast array of experience. It seems time for us to reflect on what we have learnt from that and to make those lessons available to those who have influence on how rail projects are run. The RIG Committee has started to accumulate a list of lessons learned, drawing upon the committee members’ experience. Now we would like to tap into the knowledge and experience of the full membership of the RIG. This 90-minute-long event will not be a traditional presentation. Members of the RIG committee will present the objectives of the exercise and, as a starting point for discussion, the committee’s list of lessons learned. The majority of the time, however, will be spent hearing proposals from the participants for amendments (addition, deletions or revisions) to the list and voting on these amendments. At the end of the session, we hope to have a better list that all participants can support. Participants in the discussion will receive further briefing material shortly before the event. The results of the discussion will be recorded and made available to the entire RIG membership. We will also be looking for an opportunity to publish the results more widely, so, by participating in this event, you will have the opportunity to help decision-makers make decisions about projects that will result in more effective SE and better outcomes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to be involved, please register your interest with Bruce Elliott, bruce.elliott@altran.com .

Network Rail delivers hundreds of infrastructure projects every year to enhance and renew the national rail network. This forms a capital delivery portfolio measured in Billions of pounds per year, from platform extensions to large scale regionwide upgrades. This presentation provides a discussion on a case study of the development and implementation of Network Rail's System Integration (SI) for Delivery framework , launched in June 2019. The focus here is on the drivers for a new framework, it’s implementation embedded with existing management systems, and the language and terminology used to communicate the new framework. The framework is designed to be flexible in terms of effort relative to complexity and benefit and aims to optimise the performance of new infrastructure delivered by Network Rail and provide improved services for passengers and freight. The framework consists of a suite of competence management, training, processes, products and tools that have been embedded within existing management systems to support a consistent and cohesive approach to delivery of capital projects. The SI4D Framework was first presented to the INCOSE UK RIG in 2019. This presentation will also cover lessons learnt and insights gained since that time as SI4D was deployed in Network Rail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To receive an invite please send an email to michael.morua@altran.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presenter: Derek A Price, BSC(hons) Mphil FIET MINCOSE Derek’s career has largely been focused on the application of systems thinking to major infrastructure projects across transport, power and defence industries. He has worked on both sides of the fence as well as sitting on it – suppliers, consultancy, approvers/regulators, owners, operators, and has seen the state of practice develop over 2 decades now. His current role for Network Rail is “Technical Head of Discipline (Systems Integration)” to Direct, Plan and Assure System Integration activities related to delivery of projects and programmes across Network Rail’s Infrastructure Projects. Derek is proud to be a founder member of the INCOSE UK Rail Interest Group and is Network Rail’s representative on the INCOSE UK Advisory Board. His hometown is Darlington, where the world’s first public passenger steam railway “SYSTEM” started service in 1825. Derek certainly didn’t set out to become a Railway Man but the complexities, scale of challenge, and opportunity to forge a path as a systems engineer in this critical sector became irresistible.

Join us for our first meeting of the year to discuss what this group can deliver for its members in the coming year and beyond. We'll the feedback from our questionnaire on the challenges to systems engineering in the automotive sector. This meeting will also contain our AGM to determine the roles of Chair and Secretary for the group. If you would like to be considered for this position and cannot make the meeting, please send a message to the group secretary, Tom Westbury - twestbur(at)jaguarlandrover.com

This is a Webinar from the INCOSE CIPR working group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Architecting Smart City Digital Twins for Infrastructure Protection and Recovery ----------------------------- Our work is motivated by the premise that next-generation smart city systems will be enabled by widespread adoption of sensing and communication technologies deeply embedded within the physical urban domain. These technological advances (e.g., sensing, processing, and data transmission) are what makes smart city digital twins possible. This presentation will explore the challenge of architecting smart city digital twins for infrastructure protection and planning of recovery actions. A smart city digital twin architecture is proposed that supports semantic knowledge representation and reasoning, working side by side with machine learning formalisms, to provide complementary and supportive roles in the collection and processing of data, identification of events, and automated decision-making. These capabilities will play a pivotal role in infrastructure protection and recovery. Case studies will include: (1) Distributed systems behavior modeling with ontologies and rules, (2) Detection and diagnostic analysis of faults in HVAC equipment in buildings, (3) Energy consumption of 2,500 buildings in Chicago, and (4) Semantics + data mining for Precision Medicine. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Mark Austin and Maria Coelho, University of Maryland Mark Austin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has affiliate appointments with the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) and Interdisciplinary Program of Applied Mathematics. His research interests lie at the intersection of Civil Systems, Computer Science, and Model-based Systems Engineering. He has ongoing research collaborations with the Building Energy Group at NIST, the Neuro-Oncology Group at NCI (National Cancer Institute) in Bethesda, MD, and the SERC (Systems Engineering Research Center). From 2010-2015 he served as Technical Director of the Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) Program at ISR. He is a member of the IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems Working Group. His undergraduate and graduate degrees in Civil Engineering are from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and U.C. Berkeley, respectively. Email: austin@umd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Maria Coelho is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Civil Systems Program offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research aims to enhance decision making in urban settings by integrating artificial intelligence technologies with distributed behavior modeling. Most recently, she has been exploring opportunities for combining machine learning formalisms and semantic model representations of urban systems, that work side-by-side in collecting data, identifying events, and managing city operations in real-time. Email: mecoelho@terpmail.umd.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call-in Information: Zoom for Government: https://nps-edu.zoomgov.com/j/1604876250 Meeting ID: 160 487 6250 Meeting Password: inc$3eCIPR (via app); 4806421598 (via phone)

HS2 is a state-of-the-art, high-speed line critical for the UK’s low carbon transport future. It will provide much-needed rail capacity across the country, and is integral to rail projects in the North and Midlands – helping rebalance the UK economy. Phase 1 of HS2 from London to Birmingham is now underway and moving into the delivery phase of all aspects of the programme, ambitious in its scale and a truly complex undertaking, a comprehensive systems integration approach is needed to be successful. Focusing on the upfront stages of specifying the railway as a system, this talk will explore the challenges that HS2 faces and give an overview of the strategy, process and organisational aspects of embedding systems integration thinking into delivery. We will conclude by looking at the longer term horizons for systems integration on HS2, how it needs to be developed and innovated, and how it will be implemented throughout the programme with the supply chain working towards delivering the first passenger services. ---------------------------------------------------------- Nassar Majothi, HS2 Head of Systems Integration Nassar has a passion for practical systems thinking which he makes every day use of in business, engineering and programme delivery. In his role as a leader and mentor he encourages individuals and teams to use the systems approach to achieve success in dealing with complex challenges. Focused primarily on the rail and transportation domain he has spent his entire career working on major programmes in positions ranging from on-site construction to strategic roles with government and he is currently the Head of Systems Integration for High Speed 2. Nassar is a chartered mechanical engineer, his career began working for Atkins in design engineering from which he moved on to specialise in systems engineering and integration. He later progressed to roles in project and programme management and latterly business leadership where he was until recently a Director and Executive Leadership Team member at WSP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The meeting will be presented as a Webinar on Team Meeting. To receive an invite, please send Mike Morua an email at michael.morua@altran.com requesting an invite. The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) is an international professional society for systems engineers whose mission is to foster the definition, understanding, and practice of world-class systems engineering in industry, academia, and government

This year the AGM will be a virtual meeting which is scheduled to last 1 hour. Members will receive an invite to attend by email. You will need to register to attend and then you will receive the login details.

Unfortunately, we have postponed this series of events until September. Sorry for the late notice. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. There has been a lot of interest in this event including a late surge in registrations last week. That means we need to redesign the event to accommodate the larger numbers. By postponing, we can draw on the resources of the UK Chapter as a whole to ensure the events are a success. You may wish to pencil the following dates in your diaries, 2nd, 9th and 16th September. We will confirm these dates using the email address that you used when you expressed an interest on the INCOSE UK Chapter nearer the time. In the interim, we have set up a LinkedIn Group to provide a forum to start the conversation in advance of September. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8964578/ We look forward to seeing you in September

Applications of Machine Learning for Model Based Systems Engineering - a thesis in progress by Amelia Jephson. Sharing and discussion about the development of a natural language processing model that is trained to predict SysML elements and identify relationships within text documents, with outputs in a format that are compatible with MBSE tools. This has been designed to be a proof of concept but it is hoped that such an application may be able to support the processing and population of architectural element repositories or even capture stakeholder concerns and requirements more efficiently within the early stages of project lifecycles. Reflect on the approach for this investigation and identify areas of future work that could make such an application useful for the wider MBSE community. An open discussion to capture thoughts, risks or opportunities for such applications within the wider context of MBSE.