A Systems Engineering Approach to Electromagnetic Compatibility

In this paper, we show how to integrate the aspects and activities of electromagnetic compatibility engineering into systems engineering, in order to enable efficient development of complex electromagnetic compatible systems with multidisciplinary requirements and staff. State of the art electromagnetic compatibility engineering and the basic ideas of the systems engineering development approach is shown and we motivate the integration of electromagnetic compatibility engineering into systems engineering. In the main part of this paper, the technical processes of systems engineering are recapitulated and we show how electromagnetic compatibility engineering can be integrated in each process. To this end, we summarise the respective technical process and present the aspects and activities of electromagnetic compatibility engineering to be conducted in the process. Furthermore, we motivate the compilation of an electromagnetic compatibility case from the process outputs as a central argument that electromagnetic compatibility is achieved.