Illustrate these new capabilities with the case-study of a continuous process control system where different engineering disciplines and project stakeholders characterize the model with their own properties in order to define the system architecture in a collaborative way.

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Easily enrich Capella models
with your own domain
extensions
Webinar, November 22nd 2018
Juan Navas
Thales Corporate MBSE Coaching
juan.navas@thalesgroup.com

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What you will learn today
Define your own domain-specific properties
Set properties values on Capella model elements
Change the graphical aspect of elements according to their
properties values

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Why
this
add-on

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Thales businesses
Thales operates as a single organisation, drawing
on the talent and technologies of the entire Group
to act as prime contractor, systems integrator,
equipment supplier and value-added service
provider on both civil and military programmes.
EACH OF THE MARKETS
THAT THALES SERVES
PLAYS A VITAL ROLE
IN SOCIETY.
AEROSPACE DEFENCESPACE SECURITYGROUND
TRANSPORTATION

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Thales Global Presence (per country)

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A structured engineering method for designing the architecture of
complex systems
An open source workbench tightly integrated to the method
A robust solution, adaptable to several use cases and
industrial domains
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Today

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Case study:
Industrial Control
System (ICS)

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Industrial Control System (ICS)
ICS Architecture
& Engineering
Process
Engineering
ICS Project
Management
ICS Safety
Engineering
ICS
Architecture
Model

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Operational context of the system

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Operational context of the system
When?
At which conditions?
How fast? Manually or
automatically triggered?
Supervised? …

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System scope

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System scope

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Specify your own
domain-specific properties

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PVMT Basic Concepts
Capella Model
Domain
Properties model
* associated to * Set of properties related
to a given domain
Extension Enumeration
contains *
Group of properties that
can be applied on elements
Scope Property
Defines to which
elements the
properties can be
applied
has a contains *
Defines the type of the
property: enumeration,
boolean, integer, …
contains *
optionally refers to one

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Demo – ICS process-related data
ICS Architect
Process
Engineering
ICS Project
Management
ICS Safety
Engineering
ICS
Architecture
Model

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Process domain
Conditional extensions – will only be
available if a given property value is set
(here: Process parameter = Pressure)

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Set values on
model elements’
properties

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(At least) 3 ways to set and visualize values of properties
A dedicated view
Provided by the plug-in. Contextual to the model
element that is being selected anywhere in the
Capella workbench. Allows you to enable (or not)
domain properties to be set for a given element

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(At least) 3 ways to set and visualize values of properties
A dedicated view
Provided by the plug-in. Contextual to the model
element that is being selected anywhere in the
Capella workbench. Allows you to enable (or not)
domain properties to be set for a given element
Diagrams
Allows you to visualize and edit properties values
directly on the diagrams and to select which
properties are shown for each element.

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(At least) 3 ways to set and visualize values of properties
A dedicated view
Provided by the plug-in. Contextual to the model
element that is being selected anywhere in the
Capella workbench. Allows you to enable (or not)
domain properties to be set for a given element
Diagrams
Allows you to visualize and edit properties values
directly in the diagrams and to select which
properties are shown for each element.
Tables
Will allow you to massively change properties
values (soon!)
But also Project Explorer, Semantic Browser, …

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ICS system needs

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ICS Reference Architecture

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ICS Reference Architecture

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Demo – ICS safety-domain data
ICS Architect
ICS Project
Management
ICS Safety
Engineering
ICS
Architecture
Model
Process
Engineering

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Safety domain
Conditional scope – properties can be set only if the attribute
of the element respects the condition

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Change the graphical style of elements
according to their properties

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Customized styles
Borders Labels Backgrounds
On…

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How to
1. Define the style in the Domain model
Styles can be defined for the values that the
properties can take: enumeration literals,
numerical ranges, string values.

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How to
1. Define the style in the Domain model
Styles can be defined for the values that the
properties can take: enumeration literals,
numerical ranges, string values.
2. Select which PV to display
Activate the Diagram Styler layer, then select
which properties you want to display in the
diagram

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How to
1. Define the style in the Domain model
Styles can be defined for the values that the
properties can take: enumeration literals,
numerical ranges, string values.
2. Select which PV to display
Activate the Diagram Styler layer, then select
which properties you want to display in the
diagram
That’s all

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Mixing properties visualization

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Exploiting the graphical styles

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Exploiting the graphical styles

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Exploiting the graphical styles

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More on Capella extensions
Power of
expression
End user
Any engineer and project member, no
programming background is needed.
User profile
High
Definition of any kind of properties,
manually valued or calculated; definition
of new concepts, relations and views
(Almost) Programmer
Programming skills are not mandatory
but necessary to take full advantage of
the tool
Limited
Addition of properties to model elements,
a subset of styles can change according
to property values
Typical
use case
Development of long life span
viewpoints
Manual definition and setting of
properties on model elements

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Exploiting the properties and graphical styles

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Get
started

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What PVMT allow you to do
Define your own domain-specific properties
Set properties values on Capella model elements
Change the graphical aspect of elements according to their
properties values

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Share your experience
Use the Capella forum to share your
experience and domain models:
https://polarsys.org/forums/
PVMT evolutions follow an internal roadmap.
You can fund specific developments.
What’s next?
Download it and use it
Available at the Capella add-ons page:
http://polarsys.org/capella/addons.html
Install it as a dropin: follow the instructions in
the readme.txt file (really, read it)
Perform a model detachment before sharing
models with colleagues who do not use PVMT
(or ask them to install it ;-)
Only Windows OS have been tested
Contribute!
Contact us at capella-contact@thalesgroup.com

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Who is behind PVMT?
Special thanks to
French branch of Defense and Mission Systems
Thales Business Unit development teams

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More on Arcadia and Capella
Visit the Capella website
http://www.polarsys.org/capella/
Check out past webinars
and more videos at
Polarsys Capella YouTube
channel
Read Arcadia and
Capella books (english
and french editions)

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Thank You! Questions?
Capella website:
http://www.polarsys.org/capella/
LinkedIn Discussion Group
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8605600
LinkedIn Page
https://www.linkedin.com/in/capella-mbse-tool-244083162
Twitter
https://twitter.com/capella_arcadia
Arcadia public forum:
https://polarsys.org/forums/index.php/f/12/
Capella public forum:
https://polarsys.org/forums/index.php/f/13/

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December 18th, 2018
WHAT’S NEW IN CAPELLA 1.3?