Watch recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h9BYZv54s4 Throughout the lifecycle, you will be performing a configuration management process. A configuration management process should store, track, and update all data related to the system or product. The key to configuration management is taking a data-driven approach. This in turn will reduce your lifecycle’s overall risk and increase maintainability. Your host will go over a quick summary of configuration management before diving into how you can do this in the model-based systems engineering tool, Innoslate. • Importing configuration management guidelines developing • Using Workflows for Configuration Management • Baselining documents • Changing reports with Innoslate’s data history feature • Implementing Model-Based Reviews • Managing complex data

1. HowtoPerformConfigurationManagement
Presented by: Steven H. Dam, Ph.D., ESEP – Part Three of the “How to MBSE” webinar series.

2. AskUsYourQuestions
• Ask us your questions using
the panel on the right
• This presentation is being
recorded and will be made
available to you.
• Contact us after the webinar
through
• support@Innoslate.com
• Call 571.485.7800
• LinkedIn Innoslate User Group
• Twitter
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

3. MeetYourHost
• President and Founder of SPEC
Innovations
• Participated in the development of C4ISR
and the DoDAF
• Expert Systems Engineering Professionals
Certificate
• steven.dam@specinnovations.com
• @stevenhdam
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

4. WhatYouWillLearnToday
• Key Configuration Management Processes
• How Innoslate® Supports CM in Requirements Management and Document
Control
• How Innoslate® Supports CM in Model Management
• How Innoslate® Supports CM in V&V
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

5. KeyElementsofConfigurationManagement
• We must develop and continually
update a CM plan
• We must identify what items we
want to keep under configuration
control and why
• We need to define a change
management process
• We have to track the configuration
status through changes
• We need to be able to verify the
configuration through audits
• These elements are critical to the
successful implementation of CM
on a project
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

6. NASAConfigurationManagementProcess
• According to NASA CM is: “a management
discipline applied over the product’s life cycle
to provide visibility into and to control
changes to performance and functional and
physical characteristics”
• “improper configuration management may
result in incorrect, ineffective, and/or unsafe
products being released.”
• According to INCOSE, CM is the “discipline of
identifying and formalizing the functional and
physical characteristics of a configuration
item at discrete points in the product
evolution for the purpose of maintaining the
integrity of the product system and
controlling changes to the baseline.”
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam
From https://www.nasa.gov/seh/6-5-configuration-management

7. VariousBaselines
• Most people think of document
baselines, but we can baseline
diagrams, models,
hardware/software configuration
items, etc.
• What baselines need to created
should be defined in the CM plan
• But CM seems to be a tedious
“bookkeeping” process
• Tools can help this implement this
process … or not
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

8. EachOrganizationWillDefineTheirOwnProcessesforCM
• Our process has many of the same
elements as the NASA processes
• We include the use of our “SE
Knowledgebase” as a key part of
our process
• We currently use Innoslate® as our
primary SE Knowledgebase and
tool
• It can ingest or capture all the work
products and may even be the
source of many of those products
• We can also use it to conduct
analyses and create any necessary
reports
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam
Change
Requests
Establish Configuration
Management Methodology
Notice of
Revision
Maintain Repository of
Configuration Items
Communicate Configuration
Status
Identify Configuration Items
Control Changes
Engineering
Change
Proposals
Configuration
Management
Plan
Input to SEMP
Work
Products
From all technical &
management processes
(all CDRLs)
• Baselines
• ERBs
• CCBs
• Contract Mods (ECPs)
Approved
Changes
SE
Knowledgebase
• Requirements Documents
• Design Documents
• Production Procedures
Project
Configuration
Management (PCM)

9. “HowtoMBSE”WebinarSeries:
WhereDoesConfigurationManagementFitintotheSystemLifecycle?
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam
Documents View
Requirements View
Modeling Simulation
Risk Analysis
Timeline WBS
Design Engineering
Integrations
Test Center
Sopatra
EVERYWHERE!

10. HowInnoslate®SupportsCMinRequirements
ManagementandDocumentControl
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

11. BaseliningRequirementsandDocuments
• The tool needs to provide a
baselining capability
• In Innoslate® just select “Baseline”
from the “More” dropdown button
• Then put the name of the baseline in
the box. Push “Create”
• Orange bars will turn blue
• Previous baselines are read-only
• Baselines can be deleted
• The hard part is determining what
and when to baseline your
documents
• You need to determine
this criteria
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

12. UseWorkFlowto“Baseline”IndividualRequirementsandOtherEntities
• The tool provides Workflow to
force database entities through
a user-specified process
• Innoslate® provides this capability
through the “Schema Editor”
• You select personnel or teams who
have access to the project for:
• Permissions to change the entity
• Notifications provide emails to
those selected
• You can “Lock” the entity
automatically after the notification
• The hard part is deciding what
transitions are needed
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

13. HowInnoslate®SupportsCMinModelManagement
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

14. UseManageProjectstoCreateFullModel“Baselines”
• The “model” of the system is
much more than a set of
diagrams
• The full model is all the data
associated with the system
• Innoslate®’s “Manage Projects” view
provides several ways to baseline the
entire model:
• Copy
• Export in XML format
• Export in “.inno” format
• Branch or fork
• If you export the model, you can
archive it as an Artifact and also
capture the file location on your hard
drive or cloud storage system
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam
Branching & Forking

15. BaseliningIndividualDiagrams
• You want to baseline
individual or sets of
diagrams and the tool
should support this as
well
• Innoslate® provides several
ways to quickly capture
individual diagrams
• Use the “Report” button to
export an individual diagram
• Use the ”Report” capability
in Diagrams View to export a
set of selected diagrams to
MS Word or PowerPoint
• Embed the diagrams in a
Documents View artifact and
baseline it
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

16. HowInnoslate®SupportsCMinV&V
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

17. UseManageProjectstoCreateFullModel“Baselines”
• The tool, if it captures V&V
results, should have a means for
creating the equivalent of “Test
Suites” and “Test Cycles”
• Innoslate® enables the creation of
multiple “Test Suites” to capture
different types of V&V activities
• Innoslate®’s “Test Center” view
provides a similar concept as the one
used in baselining documents
• This feature is so similar due to the
fact that the two views are based on
the same underlying view framework
• Again, the hard part is deciding
when and what constitutes a
”test cycle” or a “test suite’
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

18. LiveDemo
Let’s dive on in.
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

19. PredicttheFuture!
A well calibrated simulation can do this
• Remember what we do and how we do it matters
• High-quality analyses save projects, products, systems,
and lives
• Develop high-quality simulations by using Innoslate’s
discrete event and Monte Carlo Simulators
• Reduce operational errors by using Sopatra
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

20. Questions and
Answers
Use the panel on the right to ask your questions
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

21. Next Webinar
in “How to MBSE”
“Webinar: How to Verify and Validate”
May 26, 2022, 11:00 am ET
Go To Webinar
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

22. MoreResources
SPEC Innovations offers training, books, videos, documentation, trials, and more
Training: specinnovations.com/training
Books: “Real MBSE” textbook and lab manual available on
Amazon
Videos: Visit the SPEC Innovations YouTube channel
LinkedIn: Innoslate and Systems Engineers User Group
Documentation: help.Innoslate.com
Trial: cloud.Innoslate.com
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam

23. SPEC Innovations offers training, books, videos, documentation, trials, and more
Thank you!
Visit cloud.innoslate.com for a trial.
SPEC Innovations
@Innoslate
Innoslate User Group
Innoslate.com/blog
571.485.7800
innoslate.com
Proprietary of SPEC Innovations® 04/13/2022 at 11:00 am ET, Dr. Steven Dam