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The many crises of this century so far have only underscored how easily successful, lean and complex systems that turn resources into goods and services can be disrupted by the slightest change in their operating environment, or an unexpected zigzag in a variable that hadn't been fully accounted for.  The natural world, of course, is the same, with life over aeons of evolution having found hyper optimised ways to survive in a changing, but until now mostly gradual or cyclical, environment.

With the discovery of climate change, we realised that the natural world and man's developments could no longer be treated as independent, and the two hardest problems the human race has yet encountered: understanding the natural world, and shaping the human world, had now become exponentially more difficult to get to grips with.

The processes, tools and principles of systems engineering and, more broadly, 'systems thinking', are particularly applicable in contexts where the success or failure of a project depends largely on the relationships between semi-independent components of a system which persists beyond the lifetime of the elements that make it up, especially when those relationships involve complex feedback, unpredictable behaviour (including the 'human element'), and environmental variables.

Such considerations show up in many ways when addressing the question of finding a path to net zero, not just in the innumerable cases where technology has yet to find a way to fill the gap, but also in those cases where a zero CO2 solution is almost a contradiction in terms.  Industries like cement, steel, glass, ceramics and chemical refinement are all going to play an integral role in decarbonising the world, but significant quantities of CO2 are emitted by their processes as a matter of basic chemistry.

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SyntheSys Assists Major Oil and Gas Player

The systems engineering process within an organisation is pivotal to organisational success.  Particularly in the highly changeable energy sector.  SyntheSys recently worked with an organisation who had made the decision to adopt a systems engineering approach to improve efficiency in the way they procure systems and improve their ability to demonstrate compliance.  This decision was taken in direct response to the fluctuations in global oil prices.

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