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T
he International Systems & Concurrent Engineering
for Space Applications Conference (SECESA) is a
forum for system engineers and concurrent design
The Latest
experts to discuss common challenges and present the latest
software, applications, tools and methodologies in the area.
Developments
Madrid was the venue for this year’s edition, organized by ESA
in Concurrent
in collaboration with the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
(UPM) on
October 5–7, 2016.
On 30 October,
the EU and Canada
signed
Design
and System
This year the conference attracted more than 150 experts
the Comprehensive Economic and
Trade
and industry leaders from the leading European primes and
Engineering
Agreement (CETA), a trade deal space
that agencies,
sets as a well as NASA, JAXA, and the Chinese
new
standard
SECESA has
become
one for
of global
the trade.
dedicated session, the workshop featured for the first time two
round table discussions, a “Meet the Experts” session, surveys,
most important conferences in
and interactive presentations from UPM students.
the systems and concurrent
A number of the papers presented emphasized changes
engineering community.
to the design process due to the new trends in advanced
National Space Center. With over 50 papers and 15 posters in a
manufacturing, life cycle assesssment, and design for demise;
two round tables covered the concepts of design to produce
and space 4.0.
One of the main topics of SECESA 2016 was the applicability
of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) in different
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