Garrett Container Systems, Inc. (GCS) located in Accident, Maryland, is pleased to announce it has been acquired by Albers Aerospace (Albers), a leading service-disabled veteran owned defense contractor located in McKinney, Texas. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Albers, GCS will maintain operations in Accident, Maryland, and be part of a larger organization with facilities […]

In my recent reading of “Theory of Constraints”, it makes a claim that “Science moves from categorization, to correlation, to effect-cause-effect” as it advances. It describes the early days of star gazing as an activity of categorization – stars were placed into groups, that we now call constellations. They were given names based on their […]

There is a belief that a person being mission critical to a project or organization is good for your career. That person is likely good at their job. They have some piece of unique knowledge or skills. Maybe they were the creator of something and are the only one who understands it. Some believe that […]

Large systems require integration. Why? Because building large systems requires a huge team. A huge team operates efficiently by breaking a problem down into pieces that can be purchased or developed. At some point, those pieces must be brought back together. In project planning, I have seen projects show a roadmap of all the pieces […]

CONSTRAIN YOUR DESIGN BY CHOICE, NOT BY CHANCE Jim Albers, Albers Aerospace Engineering Solutions When designing a system with SysML, some choices have non-intuitive implications and consequences. For example: should inter-component interfaces be modeled using Pins and Object Flows, or using Ports with Flow Properties that pass Signals? And as a corollary, do the exchanges […]