MBSE with GENESYS 2024

An Example: The Vasa - A problem of disjointed System and Component Design (& Program Mgmt)

• Despite being one of the Swedish navy’s biggest achievements and among “the most spectacular warships ever built,” according to Eric H. Kessler, Paul E. Bierly III and Shanthi Gopalakrishnan in The Academy of Management Executive , Vasa sank within twenty minutes of setting sail on August 10, 1628 . • “The warship survived the first blast of wind it encountered on its maiden voyage in Stockholm Harbor,” writes Lucas Laursen for Archaeology . “ But the second gust did it in .”

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The Vasa: What Happened? • Swedish King, Gustav II Adolf, builds Sweden into one of the most feared powers in Europe.

• Swedish king signs contract with Dutch master shipwright Henrik Hybertsson to build 4 new ships. • Master of Shipwright falls ill. Responsibility passes to his assistant, Hein Jakobsson. • King orders seventy-two 24-pound guns, which was too many to fit on a single gun deck. • Guns were placed on two decks, raising the center-of-gravity • Worrisome test: thirty men run back and forth across the deck & the ship rolled alarmingly. • Under schedule pressure from the king, the ship is ordered to sail anyways.

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