1. System Engineering

Systems Engineering provides facilitation, guidance, and leadership to integrate the relevant disciplines and specialty groups into a cohesive effort, forming an appropriately structured development process that proceeds from concept to production, operation, evolution, and eventual disposal.

Systems Engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of customers to provide a quality solution that meets the needs of users and other stakeholders, is fit for the intended purpose in real-world operation, and avoids or minimizes adverse unintended consequences.

2. System Assurance

System Assurance (SA) is the process a project shall adhere to ensure that its goals are delivered safely and reliably as well as meet its objectives. This involves assuring the products and the systems used as well as assuring the process followed in the system development.

SA is the planned and systematic set of engineering activities necessary to assure that products conform with all applicable system requirements for safety, security, reliability, availability, maintainability, standards, procedures, and regulations, to provide the user with acceptable confidence that the system behaves as intended in the expected operational context.

3. RAM Management

4. Safety Management

5. EMC/EMI

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) analysis is performed to ensure that electrical and electronic items present in a system comply with the norms specified by various governmental, commercial, and international policies with respect to the radio frequencies emitted. It is also done to ensure that these items can perform in their intended electromagnetic environment. Our teams carry out EMC analysis to ensure compatibility, conformance as well as non-interference with other signals there by providing assurance of maximum performance and user safety.

6. Cybersecurity

7. Fire Safety Management

8. Human Factor and Ergonomics

Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics (HF & E) deal with designing systems, products and processes taking into consideration the human interaction between them and the users. Human Factor specialist is responsible for the “people part” in the design of complex systems. Human Factors assessments ensure that the designs of complex systems are optimized for their users and minimize the potential for human error.

RSSB has access to specialists who provide integrated human factors design input from concept through to detailed design, to ensure that user requirements are understood and considered throughout the design. The HF specialists deal with the integration human factors into the design of systems in such a way that they match the abilities and limitations of humans. We help to assess the fit between the people and the systems by providing human factors inputs to engineers and designers at each stage of development to ensure that systems are designed ergonomically. Our HF specialists can support
• Control room design and layout
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design and development
• Workload, Usability and Human Error assessments
• Task design and evaluation 

9. Life Cycle Cost

10. Requirement Management

Requirement management involves the process of engaging with the client to understand the requirements of the proposed project in detail, clarifying the same and offering suggestions based on the experience we have gained from engaging in various projects across the globe to ensure that the outcome meets the requirements of all the stake holders involved in a realistic manner making it economically and technically viable.

This involves analysing and eliciting the requirements, documenting them ensuring trace-ability, prioritizing them, reaching an agreement with all the stakeholders, and thereafter managing change efficiently.

A requirement specification is produced as the outcome of this phase and helps in managing the different phases of the project without conflict of interest. A Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) is also produced to map each requirement client has specified in the requirement statement to the requirement specification.

Conflict of understanding between various stakeholders and vendors are ruled out in the beginning itself through multiple reviews and versions so that the following phases can be handled without hassle. This process is repeated further for the development of requirement specifications for various subsystems/products contributing to the realization of the system level requirement.

11. Verification & Validation

Verification and Validation (V&V) is the process through which it is demonstrated that the system in its design phase and while rolling out has met all the requirements and it meets its intended purpose. V&V activities are carried out on an on-going basis until completion and are reported on at key stages of the project lifecycle. V&V activities support System Assurance and provide evidence for the cases for safety, as well as providing evidence to stakeholders to demonstrate their needs have been met Validation is the process to confirm that the system built or to be built meets the stated needs of the stakeholders. It is to check whether the system will do whatever it is intended to do and at the same time will not do what it is not supposed to do. RSSB, from the client side or as an independent third party, helps to ensure that ‘you built the right thing’ by validating the designs, prototypes, final system elements, training materials etc. Verification ensures conformation of a system to the requirements. We help our clients in the verification process to ensure that ‘you built it right’ by reviewing the system specification, design, processes, and products in the system; and evaluate the progress of the evolving system. This helps to reduce risk by identifying the problems at early stages thereby verifying system capability completely, to meet all requirements prior to production and operation stages.