Episode 52: The Six Types of Whole-Part Relations

Broadcast date: December 16th, 2024, 19:00 CET

As a systems engineer, you’re constantly navigating whole-part relationships: system-of-systems, component breakdown structures, or functional decompositions, just to name a few. But have you ever taken a step back to consider these relationships from a more philosophical perspective?

In this episode, we dive deep into the fascinating world of whole-part relationships. Why is a slice of cake still considered a cake, but a single part of a forest is not a forest—it’s a tree? We’ll explore the theory behind six distinct types of whole-part relationships and examine how SysML addresses them.

Tune in to gain new insights into how these concepts shape your systems thinking and engineering practices!

Inspiration for this episode:

• Odell 1994: https://conradbock.org/compkind.html
• Winston 1987: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15516709cog1104_2

You can watch it live on the YouTube Livestream on October 16th at 19:00 CET or catch the episode later on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, or Amazon Music.

Der Beitrag Episode 52: The Six Types of Whole-Part Relations erschien zuerst auf The MBSE Podcast.