Interface Management in Concurrent Engineering Facilities for Systems and Service Systems Engineering: A Model-based Approach (original) (raw)
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2014
INTRODUCTION Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods have been deployed in Concurrent Engineering Facilities (CEF) primarily as enablers for the effective (i.e. unambiguous) communication in the collaborative activities in CEF studies. Moreover, MBSE has also paved the way for the reuse of engineering artefacts across projects, with potential benefits not only on the reduction of the activity effort but also on the more accurate estimation tools for project and product performance metrics. However, MBSE methods have primarily focussed on the representation of intra-system related artefacts (from requirements to functional and physical schemas), and partially neglected the formalisation of the intersystems aspects. The inter-systems aspects, namely interfaces, can be even more critical in CEF studies as they are key specifications for cross-functional and cross-enterprise systems integrations [1]. Currently, interfaces are commonly maintained in document-based forms, therefore...
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Concurrent engineering facilities (CEFs) are successfully used in the aeropsace sector to design systems and services that that fulfill the requirements. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) enables the effective (i.e., unambiguous) communication in the collaborative activities within concurrent engineering and service systems engineering facilities. The advantages obtained by the MBSE approach can be further scaled up by an innovative approach that take into explicit account the representation of the inter-systems aspects, i.e., those aspects, namely interfaces, that stay in between the system, its subsystems and external entities (other systems and organizations). Such an approach, briefly denoted as a Model-based Interface Engineering (MBIE), brings several benefits to the CEF activities. This paper illustrates the integration of the Interface Communication Modelling Language (ICML) into the existing MBSE methods for the CEF software framework VirSat, by identifying the business needs driving the use of MBIE approaches and showing example application scenarios. concept/design that fulfills the system requirements, in a timeframe that ususally spans over two or three weeks. In such a context, the advantages obtained by the MBSE approach, in terms of enhanced communications, reduced development risks, improved quality, increased productivity and enhanced knowledge transfer, can be further scaled up by innovative approaches that take into explicit account the representation of the inter-systems aspects, i.e., those aspects, namely interfaces, that stay in between the
Conceptual modelling of a concurrent engineering environment
… . Institution of Civil …, 1997
Since the late 1980s it has been suggested that product modelling is the key to computer integrated engineering, which is also a prerequisite for computer assisted concurrent engineering. Later experiences have shown that product modelling alone is not sufficient and that other aspects, such as processes, documents etc. have to be modelled as well. In this paper we suggest environment modelling as an approach which integrates all kinds of construction information, such as the information about products, processes and documents. We propose an environment modelling framework which decomposes an abstract concurrent engineering environment into several modelling spaces. For practical reasons we use a two dimensional orthogonal framework decomposition. Along the first axis the framework is decomposed according to the modelling aspect (construction, information system, generic), and along the second axis according to the level of detail (neutral, aspect, application). In this paper we present the decomposition criteria, the resulting framework and some key components of the environment. Reported is the work in progress performed as part of the EU ESPRIT project ToCEE.
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