ffectively.
Systems engineering has contributed to facilities engineering through the development of systems that may be applied effectively over a span of years.7 Increasingly, facilities engineering projects are spanning longer periods of time, and, thus, demand the development of long term application systems.
In the opposite direction, developments in facilities engineering management have improved the process of measuring the contributions of facilities engineering to the organization as a whole, and has improved the process of communicating those
4Philip E Atkinson, Creating Culture Change: The Key to Successful Total Quality Management (San Diego, California: Pfeiffer & Company, 1990), 41 54.
6Larry Linton, First Principles of Concurrent Engineering (Pasadena, California: CALS/Concurrent Engineering Task Force, 1991), iii.
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