GPDIS 2020 Webinar 2: MBSE

The Global Product Data Interoperability Summit is pleased to present Mark Williams, Project Leader and Systems Leader from The Boeing Company share remarks on developments in Model Based Systems Engineering and data interoperability.

The Aerospace and Defense Product Lifecycle Management Action Group (AD PAG) sponsored a team of domain experts to evaluate current data interoperability technologies in support of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). The objective rapidly converged on the conceptual design phase. Based on this objective the assembled team explored the feasibility of exchanging digital models, instead of documents, between the aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturing Companies (OEMS) and their Suppliers. After multiple phases of testing, analysis and research, the team concluded that digital data interoperability was a reasonable expectation and would provide significant benefits. Support for translating or co-simulating math-based behavior models is generally available by using the FMI (Functional Mockup Interface) standard. RIF/ReqIF are well known industry standards used to exchange product design requirements, along with the associated meta data. However, graphical architecture models and diagrams were very difficult to exchange and required significant manual intervention. The team then shifted their focus to vendor tools that support SysML interoperability. ARCADIA (via Capella) was later added to address its growing popularity. This presentation is an overview of the investigation process, the applicable Use Cases, the options explored, and the potential solutions. The focus is Aerospace and how the OEMs will support the exchange of digitally defined system architecture models with their Suppliers, and across the industry.