sys|tems analysis

sys|tems analysis «SIHS tehmz»,

the scientific and mathematical analysis of systems to improve their efficiency, accuracy, or general performance, especially through the optimal use of electronic computer or data-processing machines; operations research: »

Systems analysis has gotten its biggest boost from the space industry, which could scarcely hope that huge rockets and space vehicles, made in pieces by 40 or 50 subcontractors, would work when put together without some overall way of keeping track of all the loose ends (Science News).