Engineered System (glossary)

An Open, Concrete system of technical or sociotechnical elements that exhibit emergent properties not exhibited by the individual elements. Its characteristics include being created by and for people; having a purpose, with multiple views; satisfying key stakeholders’ value propositions; having a life cycle and evolution dynamics; having a boundary and an external environment; and being a part of a system-of-interest hierarchy.

Source(s)

INCOSE 2011, INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook Issue 3.2.1 INCOSE-TP-2003-002-03.2.1

Discussion

This definition has been created for the SEBOK, combining the Systems Science definition of an Open, Concrete system with the purposeful, man made definiions found in soucres such as INCOSE Handbook.

See the What is a System? topic.