Join us on Wednesday, October 19th, for our webinar, "What Comes After MBSE?" SPEC Innovations President and Founder, Dr. Steven Dam, will discuss the future of our industry. Since 2007, the focus has been moving from document-based systems engineering to model-based systems engineering (MBSE). With our ever-changing industry and the update to SysML V2, we believe there will be a massive move toward more data-driven systems engineering.
Dr. Dam will dive deeper into the past and present of Systems Engineering, and how this will take us into the future of Data-Driven Systems Engineering. He will share how SPEC Innovations is currently moving into this trend using Innoslate and its power of migration. There will be a time in the end for questions, so bring any you may have with you.
Implementation involves deploying new SAP software components into an organization using the ASAP methodology. Key activities include sizing, installation, configuration, customizing, training, and go-live. Sizing determines hardware requirements and is influenced by business needs and technical factors. Implementation can fail due to vague requirements, lack of skills, scope changes, or growth. SAP software includes installation masters, kernels, exports, and GUIs installed based on the operating system, database, and architecture.
The document discusses defining a target operating model (TOM) for an organization. A TOM describes the future state of an organization across key dimensions like people, processes, technology, customers and markets. There is no single approach but it typically involves defining the organization's vision and business strategy, mapping out customer experiences and journeys, and modeling the processes, people and technology needed to meet customer and business needs in the future state. The TOM provides a holistic framework to guide the transformation from the current to the future state of the organization.
El documento describe las ventajas de migrar a SAP HANA, incluyendo mayor escalabilidad, seguridad y rendimiento a través de la nube, así como la capacidad de gestionar grandes volúmenes de datos de forma rápida e interactiva. También resume los beneficios de S/4HANA como interfaces simplificadas y acceso instantáneo a la información desde cualquier dispositivo, y ofrece una guía sobre cómo abordar la transformación a S/4HANA con éxito.
Crafting an End-to-End Pharma GRC StrategyCognizant
For pharmaceuticals facing increasing oversight and regulatory constraints, governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) tools are playing a more critical role, sometimes in combination with ERP. We compare Approva Bizights and SAP GRC 10 software tools while offering a framework for choosing a suitable GRC package.
SysML v2 aims to enhance SysML over the next decade to further increase adoption of model-based systems engineering (MBSE). Key areas of focus for SysML v2 include improving the precision and expressiveness of the language, integrating language concepts more consistently, improving interoperability with other tools, and enhancing usability. A submission team is developing SysML v2 based on user needs and requirements from requests for proposals, taking an agile and collaborative approach. Usage-focused modeling is a proposed paradigm shift that emphasizes modeling system usages over structure to make SysML more intuitive.
Mastering SAP Monitoring - SAP SLT & RFC Connection MonitoringLinh Nguyen
This document discusses monitoring SAP SLT (system replication) and RFC (remote function call) connections. It describes the limited monitoring capabilities available within SAP, including LTR, LTRC, LTRO and Solution Manager. It then introduces two alternative monitoring solutions - the OZSoft SAP Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM, and IT-Conductor's cloud-based application performance management. Both solutions allow for centralized, automated monitoring of SLT replication tables and RFC destinations without requiring SAP-specific software.
Service management
ITIL and the Service value system
ITIL Guiding principles
ITIL Service value chain
ITIL Four dimensions
ITIL Practices
ITIL Continual improvement
ITIL Certification scheme
What’s in it for me?
This presentation discusses security analytics, including defining the concept, choosing a path to success, tooling options, and best practices. Security analytics involves analyzing data using advanced methods to achieve useful security outcomes, such as detecting threats better or prioritizing alerts. Success requires an analytic mindset and willingness to explore data. Options for tooling include buying pre-built solutions, building custom capabilities, or partnering with outside experts. The presenter provides examples of user behavior analytics and network traffic analysis tools.
Implementation involves deploying new SAP software components into an organization using the ASAP methodology. Key activities include sizing, installation, configuration, customizing, training, and go-live. Sizing determines hardware requirements and is influenced by business needs and technical factors. Implementation can fail due to vague requirements, lack of skills, scope changes, or growth. SAP software includes installation masters, kernels, exports, and GUIs installed based on the operating system, database, and architecture.
The document discusses defining a target operating model (TOM) for an organization. A TOM describes the future state of an organization across key dimensions like people, processes, technology, customers and markets. There is no single approach but it typically involves defining the organization's vision and business strategy, mapping out customer experiences and journeys, and modeling the processes, people and technology needed to meet customer and business needs in the future state. The TOM provides a holistic framework to guide the transformation from the current to the future state of the organization.
El documento describe las ventajas de migrar a SAP HANA, incluyendo mayor escalabilidad, seguridad y rendimiento a través de la nube, así como la capacidad de gestionar grandes volúmenes de datos de forma rápida e interactiva. También resume los beneficios de S/4HANA como interfaces simplificadas y acceso instantáneo a la información desde cualquier dispositivo, y ofrece una guía sobre cómo abordar la transformación a S/4HANA con éxito.
Crafting an End-to-End Pharma GRC StrategyCognizant
For pharmaceuticals facing increasing oversight and regulatory constraints, governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) tools are playing a more critical role, sometimes in combination with ERP. We compare Approva Bizights and SAP GRC 10 software tools while offering a framework for choosing a suitable GRC package.
SysML v2 aims to enhance SysML over the next decade to further increase adoption of model-based systems engineering (MBSE). Key areas of focus for SysML v2 include improving the precision and expressiveness of the language, integrating language concepts more consistently, improving interoperability with other tools, and enhancing usability. A submission team is developing SysML v2 based on user needs and requirements from requests for proposals, taking an agile and collaborative approach. Usage-focused modeling is a proposed paradigm shift that emphasizes modeling system usages over structure to make SysML more intuitive.
Mastering SAP Monitoring - SAP SLT & RFC Connection MonitoringLinh Nguyen
This document discusses monitoring SAP SLT (system replication) and RFC (remote function call) connections. It describes the limited monitoring capabilities available within SAP, including LTR, LTRC, LTRO and Solution Manager. It then introduces two alternative monitoring solutions - the OZSoft SAP Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM, and IT-Conductor's cloud-based application performance management. Both solutions allow for centralized, automated monitoring of SLT replication tables and RFC destinations without requiring SAP-specific software.
Service management
ITIL and the Service value system
ITIL Guiding principles
ITIL Service value chain
ITIL Four dimensions
ITIL Practices
ITIL Continual improvement
ITIL Certification scheme
What’s in it for me?
This presentation discusses security analytics, including defining the concept, choosing a path to success, tooling options, and best practices. Security analytics involves analyzing data using advanced methods to achieve useful security outcomes, such as detecting threats better or prioritizing alerts. Success requires an analytic mindset and willingness to explore data. Options for tooling include buying pre-built solutions, building custom capabilities, or partnering with outside experts. The presenter provides examples of user behavior analytics and network traffic analysis tools.
Information systems analysis and design is a method used by companies to create and maintain information systems that perform basic business functions. It involves developing or acquiring application software and training employees to use it, with the goal of improving organizational systems. Key components of information systems include application software designed to support specific functions, as well as other system components collectively called computer-based information systems. Methodologies, techniques, and tools help analysts develop information systems through a sequence of structured steps.
Applying reference models with archi mateBas van Gils
This is the slidedeck for a webinar that I presented for the opengroup. It presents a high-level overview of the use of reference model in the field of EA. Even more I present with some tips on how to use BiZZdesign architect to effectivdely implement reference models in organizations
This document provides an overview of implementing a 3-tier architecture in ASP.NET using C#. It describes the 3 tiers - presentation layer, business logic layer, and data access layer. The presentation layer handles user input/output. The business logic layer contains application logic and communicates with the data access layer. The data access layer connects to the database and performs CRUD operations. The document outlines setting up the project structure with App_Code/BusinessLayer and App_Code/DataAccessLayer folders and creating sample BusinessLogic and DataAccess classes.
The document discusses SAP's AcceleratedSAP methodology for implementing SAP solutions. It describes the five phases of the methodology - Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support. Each phase has specific goals and deliverables aimed at successfully implementing SAP and achieving business benefits. The methodology provides structure, guidance, and tools to help projects be on time, on budget and deliver business goals.
ASAP Methodology for Implementing SAP System Ankit Sharma
ASAP Methodology for Implementing SAP System
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The document outlines the stages and themes of a generic SAP implementation project based on the ASAP methodology. The stages are preparation, design, realization and testing, final preparation, and go-live. The project themes include business process, testing management, training, business change, technical solution/infrastructure, and data management. The stages provide a framework for defining, planning, and launching an SAP project.
More often than not, company executives ask the wrong questions about software security. This session will discuss techniques for changing the conversation about software security in order to encourage executives to ask the right questions – and provide answers that show progress towards meaningful objectives. Caroline will discuss a progression of software security capabilities and the metrics that correspond to different levels of maturity. She’ll discuss an approach for developing key metrics for your unique software security program and walk through a detailed example.
This document discusses using design systems and tools like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe XD, and Storybook together to improve the development workflow. It outlines challenges with the typical development flow and how using shared components and design tokens across tools allows for more efficient collaboration. The document demonstrates how designers can build UI kits in XD that are directly deployed to AEM through Maven builds and how web developers can work directly in Storybook.
What is a secure enterprise architecture roadmap?Ulf Mattsson
Webcast title : What is a Secure Enterprise Architecture Roadmap?
Description : This session will cover the following topics:
* What is a Secure Enterprise Architecture roadmap (SEA)?
* Are there different Roadmaps for different industries?
* How does compliance fit in with a SEA?
* Does blockchain, GDPR, Cloud, and IoT conflict with compliance regulations complicating your SEA?
* How will quantum computing impact SEA roadmap?
Presenters : Juanita Koilpillai, Bob Flores, Mark Rasch, Ulf Mattsson, David Morris
Duration : 68 min
Date & Time : Sep 20 2018 8:00 am
Timezone : United States - New York
Webcast URL : https://www.brighttalk.com/webinar/what-is-a-secure-enterprise-architecture-roadmap
This document discusses principles and methods for sizing SAP HANA systems, both on-premise and in the cloud. It provides an overview of key performance indicators for SAP HANA sizing such as memory, CPU, disk I/O, and network load. Common sizing approaches like greenfield, brownfield, and bluefield sizing are described. Official SAP sizing tools like the Quick Sizer are outlined, which provide structured questionnaires and sizing results. The roles of SAP, customers, hardware vendors, and service providers in the collaborative sizing process are also reviewed.
IBM Detailed ALM/ELM for Aerospace & Defence overviewImran Hashmi
Check out more info at https://hashmi.ca
IBM Detailed ALM/ELM for Aerospace & Defence overview
Challenges & Trends in Aerospace/Defense industry
IBM Engineering platform for Aerospace/Defense
The A&D demonstrator
Engineering Lifecycle Management Solution for A&D capabilities
Deeper Dive: Accelerating Industry Compliance for Aerospace:
ARP4754 and DO178C
Summary and additional resources
https://hashmi.ca
A Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach to Portfolio ManagementElizabeth Steiner
Learn about the importance of The Lifecycle Modeling Language (LML) to portfolio management. LML provides an open standard ontology and diagram framework that enables more effective communications to all stakeholders in the acquisition process.
Innoslate® implements and extends LML making Innoslate easier to learn and adopt than any other tool available today in the program management and systems engineering domains. You will also learn how Innoslate is built on a modular open systems approach (MOSA) architecture and can be easily integrated with other modern tools. This webinar will also include a sneak preview of Innoslate 4.5's program management features.
What Does the Webinar Cover?
You'll learn how to optimize varying parameters and disciplines throughout the lifecycle of the system within cost and schedule constraints without compromising performance. Real MBSE enables the execution of many activities in parallel, thus enabling the “faster and cheaper” part.
Many people can contribute to the design and development at the same time, because the information they create can be easily linked together to form abstractions that enable you to communicate the results at all levels. Dr. Dam uses a methodology that includes the technique, processes, and tools.
This methodology isn’t the only way to have a successful MBSE capability, but all three elements must be incorporated in any methodology you use. We offer this methodology as one that has proven successful over the past decade. It is based on methodologies used since the 1960s, but updated to the modern cloud computing, artificial intelligence age; that's now emerging toward the end of the second decade of the 21st Century.
Often people today work in a similar manner to how their grandparents worked in the 1960s, just with electronic tools instead of paper and pencil. Just creating a “model” doesn’t mean you are doing effective MBSE. This webinar will show you how to take MBSE into the 21st century.
What is the Lifecycle Modeling Language?SarahCraig7
The document discusses the Lifecycle Modeling Language (LML). It provides the following key details:
- LML combines logical constructs and an ontology to capture systems engineering information across the full lifecycle.
- The LML ontology has 12 primary element classes and standardized relationships between classes.
- LML supports requirements management, modeling, simulation, and verification through diagrams and models.
- LML is intended to simplify modeling compared to other languages while supporting the full lifecycle.
- The LML standard is overseen by a steering committee and SPEC Innovations' Innoslate product supports its implementation.
This webinar discusses how program management and systems engineering can better integrate to improve program success. It introduces Innoslate, a tool that supports this integration. The webinar agenda includes explaining common causes of program failure, distinguishing the roles of program management and systems engineering, and how a middle-out approach can make these functions more agile. The presentation demonstrates how Innoslate uses an integrated ontology and various modeling and simulation capabilities to facilitate collaboration between program management and systems engineering.
The document provides an overview of software architecture in an agile world. It discusses the need for speed in software development driven by factors like scaling, heterogeneous systems, and reduced infrastructure costs. It then covers foundations of software architecture including definitions, skills, deliverables, and examples of great reference architectures. The remainder outlines an agile approach to software architecture, including preparing an architecture vision, early decisions, decomposition, identifying significant elements, a risk-based roadmap, measuring progress, and communicating. The summary emphasizes that architects now play a continuous role on development teams.
Mark Minnucci: Deployment of MBSE and the Emergence of a Systems-Thinking Cul...EnergyTech2015
SYSTEMS THINKING & MBSE
Track 3 Session 2
Moderator: Mark Walker
Deployment of MBSE and Systems Thinking in an energy technology company and an evaluation of interfaces in a system of systems development.
Mark Minnucci – Paper 1: Deployment of MBSE and Emergence of a Systems-Thinking Culture
Schneider Electric is a global specialist in the markets of energy management and automation. Historically, the Schneider portfolio has concentrated on mass-production of electro-mechanical consumer products. Today, Schneider product functionality and complexity are both rapidly increasing through the addition of embedded control software and wireless connectivity. In this presentation, I will share how my organization has championed this culture change, our roadmap for growing a community of experts from the ground up, and lessons-learned that will be applicable to all members of the audience who may be facing the same challenges in their own companies. This presentation will also provide a brief overview of the specific MBSE framework that Schneider Electric is using.
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
Knowledge-Based Analysis and Design (KBAD): An Approach to Rapid Systems Engi...Elizabeth Steiner
The document describes Knowledge-Based Analysis and Design (KBAD), a methodology developed by Systems and Proposal Engineering Company for rapid systems engineering and architecture development. KBAD combines system engineering and program management disciplines to develop an executable knowledge base that can support decision-making across a system's lifecycle. It utilizes a modified form of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with simplified constructs and relationships between elements. The goal is to reduce complexity and capture the essential information needed for analysis and design in a more cost-effective manner than traditional approaches.
How to Develop and Simulate Models with No Coding ExperienceElizabeth Steiner
The document summarizes a webinar on how to develop and simulate models with no coding experience. It discusses using functional analysis and risk analysis to derive requirements. It also describes how to add cost elements and human factors to simulations in Innoslate and Sopatra. The webinar demonstrates building action diagrams to model functionality and linking models to other tools like MATLAB and STK for co-simulation.
This document discusses the role of architects in capability-based planning for the Department of Defense (DoD). It notes that DoD's capability value chain is missing a link between capability planning and development. The architect's role is to fill this gap by developing an architecture specification and engineerable requirements that can translate capability needs into systems that deliver capabilities. The document contrasts this role with platform-based planning of the past, where requirements and development focused more on individual platforms.
Manage Mission-Critical Requirements Through Agile in InnoslateTaylorDuffy11
The document discusses an upcoming webinar on agile systems engineering and the Innoslate tool. It provides an agenda that will cover the agile manifesto, agile systems engineering processes, the difference between requirements and issues, and the middle-out approach. An example of how Innoslate was developed using agile principles is provided. The webinar will demonstrate how Innoslate supports agile systems engineering and software development through requirements management, software tracking, and other program management tools. Attendees are invited to ask questions during the webinar.
Information systems analysis and design is a method used by companies to create and maintain information systems that perform basic business functions. It involves developing or acquiring application software and training employees to use it, with the goal of improving organizational systems. Key components of information systems include application software designed to support specific functions, as well as other system components collectively called computer-based information systems. Methodologies, techniques, and tools help analysts develop information systems through a sequence of structured steps.
Applying reference models with archi mateBas van Gils
This is the slidedeck for a webinar that I presented for the opengroup. It presents a high-level overview of the use of reference model in the field of EA. Even more I present with some tips on how to use BiZZdesign architect to effectivdely implement reference models in organizations
This document provides an overview of implementing a 3-tier architecture in ASP.NET using C#. It describes the 3 tiers - presentation layer, business logic layer, and data access layer. The presentation layer handles user input/output. The business logic layer contains application logic and communicates with the data access layer. The data access layer connects to the database and performs CRUD operations. The document outlines setting up the project structure with App_Code/BusinessLayer and App_Code/DataAccessLayer folders and creating sample BusinessLogic and DataAccess classes.
The document discusses SAP's AcceleratedSAP methodology for implementing SAP solutions. It describes the five phases of the methodology - Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support. Each phase has specific goals and deliverables aimed at successfully implementing SAP and achieving business benefits. The methodology provides structure, guidance, and tools to help projects be on time, on budget and deliver business goals.
ASAP Methodology for Implementing SAP System Ankit Sharma
ASAP Methodology for Implementing SAP System
Please like, share, comment and subscribe our YouTube Channel "Business Consulting" .
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWpmkuzZv-VDUyBGhR8yOw
The document outlines the stages and themes of a generic SAP implementation project based on the ASAP methodology. The stages are preparation, design, realization and testing, final preparation, and go-live. The project themes include business process, testing management, training, business change, technical solution/infrastructure, and data management. The stages provide a framework for defining, planning, and launching an SAP project.
More often than not, company executives ask the wrong questions about software security. This session will discuss techniques for changing the conversation about software security in order to encourage executives to ask the right questions – and provide answers that show progress towards meaningful objectives. Caroline will discuss a progression of software security capabilities and the metrics that correspond to different levels of maturity. She’ll discuss an approach for developing key metrics for your unique software security program and walk through a detailed example.
This document discusses using design systems and tools like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe XD, and Storybook together to improve the development workflow. It outlines challenges with the typical development flow and how using shared components and design tokens across tools allows for more efficient collaboration. The document demonstrates how designers can build UI kits in XD that are directly deployed to AEM through Maven builds and how web developers can work directly in Storybook.
What is a secure enterprise architecture roadmap?Ulf Mattsson
Webcast title : What is a Secure Enterprise Architecture Roadmap?
Description : This session will cover the following topics:
* What is a Secure Enterprise Architecture roadmap (SEA)?
* Are there different Roadmaps for different industries?
* How does compliance fit in with a SEA?
* Does blockchain, GDPR, Cloud, and IoT conflict with compliance regulations complicating your SEA?
* How will quantum computing impact SEA roadmap?
Presenters : Juanita Koilpillai, Bob Flores, Mark Rasch, Ulf Mattsson, David Morris
Duration : 68 min
Date & Time : Sep 20 2018 8:00 am
Timezone : United States - New York
Webcast URL : https://www.brighttalk.com/webinar/what-is-a-secure-enterprise-architecture-roadmap
This document discusses principles and methods for sizing SAP HANA systems, both on-premise and in the cloud. It provides an overview of key performance indicators for SAP HANA sizing such as memory, CPU, disk I/O, and network load. Common sizing approaches like greenfield, brownfield, and bluefield sizing are described. Official SAP sizing tools like the Quick Sizer are outlined, which provide structured questionnaires and sizing results. The roles of SAP, customers, hardware vendors, and service providers in the collaborative sizing process are also reviewed.
IBM Detailed ALM/ELM for Aerospace & Defence overviewImran Hashmi
Check out more info at https://hashmi.ca
IBM Detailed ALM/ELM for Aerospace & Defence overview
Challenges & Trends in Aerospace/Defense industry
IBM Engineering platform for Aerospace/Defense
The A&D demonstrator
Engineering Lifecycle Management Solution for A&D capabilities
Deeper Dive: Accelerating Industry Compliance for Aerospace:
ARP4754 and DO178C
Summary and additional resources
https://hashmi.ca
A Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach to Portfolio ManagementElizabeth Steiner
Learn about the importance of The Lifecycle Modeling Language (LML) to portfolio management. LML provides an open standard ontology and diagram framework that enables more effective communications to all stakeholders in the acquisition process.
Innoslate® implements and extends LML making Innoslate easier to learn and adopt than any other tool available today in the program management and systems engineering domains. You will also learn how Innoslate is built on a modular open systems approach (MOSA) architecture and can be easily integrated with other modern tools. This webinar will also include a sneak preview of Innoslate 4.5's program management features.
What Does the Webinar Cover?
You'll learn how to optimize varying parameters and disciplines throughout the lifecycle of the system within cost and schedule constraints without compromising performance. Real MBSE enables the execution of many activities in parallel, thus enabling the “faster and cheaper” part.
Many people can contribute to the design and development at the same time, because the information they create can be easily linked together to form abstractions that enable you to communicate the results at all levels. Dr. Dam uses a methodology that includes the technique, processes, and tools.
This methodology isn’t the only way to have a successful MBSE capability, but all three elements must be incorporated in any methodology you use. We offer this methodology as one that has proven successful over the past decade. It is based on methodologies used since the 1960s, but updated to the modern cloud computing, artificial intelligence age; that's now emerging toward the end of the second decade of the 21st Century.
Often people today work in a similar manner to how their grandparents worked in the 1960s, just with electronic tools instead of paper and pencil. Just creating a “model” doesn’t mean you are doing effective MBSE. This webinar will show you how to take MBSE into the 21st century.
What is the Lifecycle Modeling Language?SarahCraig7
The document discusses the Lifecycle Modeling Language (LML). It provides the following key details:
- LML combines logical constructs and an ontology to capture systems engineering information across the full lifecycle.
- The LML ontology has 12 primary element classes and standardized relationships between classes.
- LML supports requirements management, modeling, simulation, and verification through diagrams and models.
- LML is intended to simplify modeling compared to other languages while supporting the full lifecycle.
- The LML standard is overseen by a steering committee and SPEC Innovations' Innoslate product supports its implementation.
This webinar discusses how program management and systems engineering can better integrate to improve program success. It introduces Innoslate, a tool that supports this integration. The webinar agenda includes explaining common causes of program failure, distinguishing the roles of program management and systems engineering, and how a middle-out approach can make these functions more agile. The presentation demonstrates how Innoslate uses an integrated ontology and various modeling and simulation capabilities to facilitate collaboration between program management and systems engineering.
The document provides an overview of software architecture in an agile world. It discusses the need for speed in software development driven by factors like scaling, heterogeneous systems, and reduced infrastructure costs. It then covers foundations of software architecture including definitions, skills, deliverables, and examples of great reference architectures. The remainder outlines an agile approach to software architecture, including preparing an architecture vision, early decisions, decomposition, identifying significant elements, a risk-based roadmap, measuring progress, and communicating. The summary emphasizes that architects now play a continuous role on development teams.
Mark Minnucci: Deployment of MBSE and the Emergence of a Systems-Thinking Cul...EnergyTech2015
SYSTEMS THINKING & MBSE
Track 3 Session 2
Moderator: Mark Walker
Deployment of MBSE and Systems Thinking in an energy technology company and an evaluation of interfaces in a system of systems development.
Mark Minnucci – Paper 1: Deployment of MBSE and Emergence of a Systems-Thinking Culture
Schneider Electric is a global specialist in the markets of energy management and automation. Historically, the Schneider portfolio has concentrated on mass-production of electro-mechanical consumer products. Today, Schneider product functionality and complexity are both rapidly increasing through the addition of embedded control software and wireless connectivity. In this presentation, I will share how my organization has championed this culture change, our roadmap for growing a community of experts from the ground up, and lessons-learned that will be applicable to all members of the audience who may be facing the same challenges in their own companies. This presentation will also provide a brief overview of the specific MBSE framework that Schneider Electric is using.
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
Knowledge-Based Analysis and Design (KBAD): An Approach to Rapid Systems Engi...Elizabeth Steiner
The document describes Knowledge-Based Analysis and Design (KBAD), a methodology developed by Systems and Proposal Engineering Company for rapid systems engineering and architecture development. KBAD combines system engineering and program management disciplines to develop an executable knowledge base that can support decision-making across a system's lifecycle. It utilizes a modified form of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with simplified constructs and relationships between elements. The goal is to reduce complexity and capture the essential information needed for analysis and design in a more cost-effective manner than traditional approaches.
How to Develop and Simulate Models with No Coding ExperienceElizabeth Steiner
The document summarizes a webinar on how to develop and simulate models with no coding experience. It discusses using functional analysis and risk analysis to derive requirements. It also describes how to add cost elements and human factors to simulations in Innoslate and Sopatra. The webinar demonstrates building action diagrams to model functionality and linking models to other tools like MATLAB and STK for co-simulation.
This document discusses the role of architects in capability-based planning for the Department of Defense (DoD). It notes that DoD's capability value chain is missing a link between capability planning and development. The architect's role is to fill this gap by developing an architecture specification and engineerable requirements that can translate capability needs into systems that deliver capabilities. The document contrasts this role with platform-based planning of the past, where requirements and development focused more on individual platforms.
Manage Mission-Critical Requirements Through Agile in InnoslateTaylorDuffy11
The document discusses an upcoming webinar on agile systems engineering and the Innoslate tool. It provides an agenda that will cover the agile manifesto, agile systems engineering processes, the difference between requirements and issues, and the middle-out approach. An example of how Innoslate was developed using agile principles is provided. The webinar will demonstrate how Innoslate supports agile systems engineering and software development through requirements management, software tracking, and other program management tools. Attendees are invited to ask questions during the webinar.
David Long Keynote on Beyond MBSE Looking Towards the Next Evolution in Syste...EnergyTech2015
This document discusses the evolution of systems engineering and the potential next steps beyond model-based systems engineering (MBSE). It begins by defining systems engineering and describing its focus on interdisciplinary processes to satisfy customer needs. It then outlines some key characteristics of modern systems and discusses how systems engineering has expanded from aerospace/defense to other domains. The document notes challenges in applying systems engineering to today's interconnected world and proposes plotting a journey beyond MBSE with steps like leveraging collective insights, aligning with reference architectures, and incorporating feedback/learning. It envisions connecting supporting theories and recognizing the future of systems engineering. The document concludes by joining engineering colleagues to enable model-based engineering and discussing how systems engineering may adapt to 21st century needs
Take a trip into the history and future of systems engineering to better understand how we can improve the discipline.
Your host, Dr. Steve Dam, discusses where systems engineering came from and where it is going. He includes discussions on how:
- complexity has changed our methodology
- systems engineering languages have evolved
- technology improvements enable better systems engineering
- SPEC Innovations provides systems engineering software, training, and consulting to defense and aerospace industries.
- The latest release of their flagship product Innoslate (version 4.4) includes new features such as a GitHub viewer, improved date selection, bulk duplication, and find/replace functions.
- It also adds integration with MATLAB and STK simulation tools for modeling and simulation capabilities.
This webinar was hosted by Ignyte Assurance Platform and Federal Publication Seminars on 18 June 2021.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), under the Department of Homeland Security, launches a campaign to reduce the risk of ransomware. Following an executive order signed by President Biden on May 12, 2021, which aims to increase cybersecurity defenses and resiliency against nation-state data exfiltration and hold global criminals accountable for ransomware attacks.
As we’ve seen with the Solar Winds and Colonial Pipeline hacks, cybercrime isn’t limited to government organizations. In fact, both public and private sectors are vulnerable to an all-too-common type of cyber attack which exposed the gaps in U.S. cyber defenses. New standards such as Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) are becoming required compliance and cyber hygiene minimum for all organizations involved in the federal supply chain.
This webinar is designed for federal contractors and companies that provide critical infrastructure or any type of software to the government. Our guests and leading data security and compliance experts will explain how both public and private sector organizations need to act now to protect global software supply chains that affect government and private sector computer systems.
Knowing exactly where your cybersecurity and compliance gaps are and the solutions needed to implement and fix them is central to your success. Early adopters demonstrating high security & compliance postures are positioned to win more business over laggards.
The document discusses systems development life cycle methodology. It describes the SDLC project team, which includes personnel from information systems and business units led by a project manager. The team also includes systems analysts who work closely with end users and managers. The document then outlines the various phases of the SDLC, including definition, construction, implementation, and maintenance phases. It also discusses alternative development approaches like prototyping, rapid application development, and agile software development.
In this webinar, "Simulate Functional Models: Generate Cost, Schedule, Performance, and Resource Analytics Rapidly," Dr. Steven Dam walks you through scripting and simulation using Innoslate's Discrete Event and Monte Carlo Simulators. This allows you to plan ahead by analyzing your system or project’s cost, schedule, and performance.
Modern Evolutionary Software ArchitecturesTechWell
For many years, software architecture was described as the “parts that are hard to change later.” Modern advances in architecture have shown that if architects build evolvability into the architecture, change becomes easier. Neal Ford describes a family of software architectures that support evolutionary change, how we can build evolvable systems, and how to retrofit existing ones. He discusses three key concepts that support evolutionary architectures. Incremental change covers engineering practices to support continuous delivery and DevOps. Neal explains how fitness functions build protective, testable scaffolding around critical parts to guide the architecture as it evolves and to help developers assess how well the architecture adheres to a particular goal. Third, he describes how to determine the level of architectural coupling, which affects the ability to evolve the architecture. Neal illustrates ways to retrofit existing systems to support architectural evolution and shares tips on migrating between architectural styles. Leave with a new appreciation of software architecture and practical ways to make your systems not nearly so hard to change.
TMPA-2017: Stemming Architectural Decay in Software SystemsIosif Itkin
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We know change can be intimidating. The coming release of SysML V2 can seem intimidating, as it is a product of 70 organizations and 170 people collaborating. Join us for our next webinar, “Dissecting SysML V2,” with Systems Engineer, Lilleigh Stevie. We will look closely at the next generation of OMG’s modeling language by covering its background, purpose and objectives, KerML, familiar and new concepts, pilot implementation, and where this will take us in the future. There will be a designated time at the end for questions, so bring any you may have with you. Register today and we will see you there!
Does your product or system meet the requirements? Find out in this webinar. Your host will discuss a verification and validation process that has worked for hundreds of our clients to answer this question. Then you will learn how to use a model-based systems engineering tool, Innoslate, to develop your own V&V process document. Then your host will dive into Test Center. Test Center allows for easy test case capture and traceability to requirements and provides the ability to run test cases within one easy-to-use view.
This webinar will cover:
1. V&V process
2. Test Center
3. Documents View
4. Traceability Matrix
SPEC Innovations is starting its “How To MBSE” series this February 17th at 11:00 am ET. The series will begin with “How to Write Requirements.” Your host, Dr. Steven Dam, will discuss:
1. Gathering your requirements
2. Baselining and change management
3. Using AI to manage quality in your requirements
4. Checking for risk in your requirements
5. Adding relationships (traced, verified, and satisfied)
6. Creating reports and matrices
This webinar is perfect if you are just learning to write requirements or are a seasoned requirements developer and want to learn how to utilize software tools and artificial intelligence to improve your requirements. Either way, you will learn a lot in this 45-minute webinar. Stay for the Q&A to ask Dr. Dam your questions.
The “How to MBSE” series will continue with these webinars:
March 24th 2022, 11:00 am ET - “How to Develop and Simulate Models (with no coding experience!)”
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4521555073189509390
April 13, 2022, 11:00 am ET - “How to Perform Configuration Management”
May 26, 2022, 11:00 am ET – “How to Verify and Validate a System or Process”
June 21, 2022, 11:00 am ET - “How to Develop a Program Management Plan”
The document summarizes a demonstration of a digital thread for engineering a lunar rover prototype using Innoslate's systems engineering tools. It describes 4 tasks: research and design, building the prototype, testing it, and demonstrating the digital thread. Key activities included designing the rover, 3D printing components, assembling the prototype called SPECTER, simulating its mission in STK and MATLAB, and validating it meets requirements. The digital thread integrated models, documents, simulations, code, and tests to engineer a prototype lunar rover from concept to testing.
Innoslate, a model-based systems engineering solution, was developed in 2013 and is used by thousands of engineers, analysts, and program managers today. We’re now making another major feature release with Innoslate 4.5. Innoslate users can now utilize project management features such as Kanban boards, branching and forking, calendar, and timeline diagrams!
Did we mention, this fall we’re also releasing a brand new MBSE tool specifically designed for Standard Operating Procedures? That’s right, Sopatra, uses Natural Language Processing to turn SOP text into executable models. Learn how you can reduce cost and risk, while increasing the success of your operations by using Sopatra’s unique algorithms.
Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-ge_ZHo6s
This webinar is going to cover what is a digital twin and how all stakeholders can benefit from their functionality. You will learn how model-based systems engineering enables digital engineering. Your host will discuss use cases, a realistic look at digital engineering and digital twins, and how you can use Innoslate to get started.
The Agenda
Here's what we're covering.
What is a Digital Twin
Benefits of Digital Twin
The Digital Engineering Path Enabled by MBSE
AR + MBSE Software
A More Realistic Digital Twin
Getting You Started with Digital Twins
Question Answer Session
- Innoslate is a cloud-native, model-based systems engineering software that supports requirements management, modeling, simulation, and verification and validation.
- It aims to improve upon traditional systems engineering tools by offering easier usability, integrated simulation capabilities, lifecycle management support, and real-time collaboration features.
- Key capabilities include real-time collaboration, discrete event and Monte Carlo simulation integrated with models, scalability tested up to millions of entities and thousands of users, and full lifecycle management across requirements, modeling, testing and documentation.
This document provides an overview of a webinar on using Innoslate for requirements management. The webinar agenda includes where requirements come from, what makes a good requirement, the difference between requirements management and analysis, and a live demonstration of Innoslate's features to support requirements analysts and managers. Key Innoslate features that support requirements management and analysis are highlighted.
See the major new features and improvements in Innoslate 4.3. The latest version of Innoslate has two brand new diagrams Interface Control Diagram (ICD) and a Risk Burndown Chart. You asked and we delivered; a ReqIF Import and Export. We've also added that Cross Project Entities will be visual noticeable in all views with a new purple symbol indicator, dashed purple lines, or purple background color. Now search has been redesigned for a more flexible user experience. All entity’s attributes can now be searched as well as searching by entity id, relationship name, and attribute name. Dr. Dam will demonstrate best practices for using all the new diagrams, features, and even some of the improvements. Stay for the question and answer session to ask any or all your questions. We look forward to having you there!
This is a perfect webinar for professors and students of systems engineering seeking to improve their academic research and professional expertise.
SPEC Innovations is dedicated to advancing the systems engineering academic community. Our engineers designed Innoslate to improve academic research and help professors expand model-based systems engineering to a new generation of students. See what benefits you have using Innoslate for Aacademia with this webinar.
Using Innoslate for Model-Based Systems EngineeringElizabeth Steiner
Dr. Steve Dam will walk you through the process of using Innoslate’s modeling and simulation capabilities while applying a MBSE methodology.
At its core, Innoslate is a full model-based systems engineering tool. Within Innoslate, system models are formalized and capable of simulation to derive cost, schedule, and performance data.
Your webinar will cover:
Functional modeling
Functional modeling is at the heart of how Innoslate derives new requirements and ensures logical accuracy.
Physical modeling
We can describe synthesizing the physical model in Innoslate with eight different diagrams, including the Asset Diagram, Layer Diagram, Block Definition Diagram, and Internal Block Diagram.
Executing a model
Innoslate includes a ‘Discrete Event Simulator’ to verify functional diagram’s logic, calculate cost, compute time, and quantify performance.
Relating Requirements to Diagrams
Requirements traceability ensures that the lifecycle and origin of a requirement is fully tracked. Innoslate includes relationship matrices to represent traceability relationships between entities in tabular view.
Requirements Generation
After modeling the system, often an engineer will derive textual requirements from the models by hand. Innoslate includes an automatic facility that generates requirements documents in a standard format (as outlined in “The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods“).
Learn how you can use Innoslate throughout the entire lifecycle of a product or system. Dr. Steven Dam, expert systems engineer, will discuss the different phases of the lifecycle from conception to disposal. He'll show you how you can use Innoslate for requirements management, modeling, simulation, and testing.
Improve Product Design with High Quality RequirementsElizabeth Steiner
The webinar discussed improving product design through high quality requirements. It emphasized the importance of understanding stakeholders, determining real needs through concept of operations documents, writing specific but not overly specific requirements, including traceability, and using tools to automatically check requirements quality. The presenter demonstrated Innoslate's requirements management tools.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has many definitions, but do they really look at all the needs across the lifecycle? Are the commonly listed domains (Systems Engineering, Program Management, Product Design, Process Management for Manufacturing and Product Data Management) enough? This webinar helps define PLM in more depth and applies model-based systems engineering (MBSE) techniques and tools to show how to improve your PLM practice. It will include a demonstration of how Innoslate meets and exceeds the requirements for a PLM tool.
Everyone talks about "data-centricity," but what does that mean in practical terms. It means that you have to have a well defined ontology that can capture the information needed to describe the architecture or system you work with or want to create. An ontology is simply the taxonomy of entity classes (bins of information) and how those classes are related to each other. In this webinar, we will discuss a relatively new ontology, the Lifecycle Modeling Language (LML). LML provides the basis for Innoslate's database schema. In this webinar, we will discuss each entity class and why it was developed. Dr. Steven Dam, who is the Secretary of the LML Steering Committee, will present the details of the language and how it relates to other ontologies/languages, such as the DoDAF MetaModel 2.0 and SysML. He will also discuss the ways to visualize this information to enhance understanding of the information and how to use that information to make decisions about the architecture or system.
This document discusses verification and validation (V&V) and developing a V&V plan using model-based systems engineering. It explains that V&V activities should occur early in the lifecycle during requirements analysis and system design. It also discusses preparing for V&V by developing an ontology, defining verifiable requirements, and creating a V&V plan. The document shows how the LML schema can be extended to support V&V and describes characteristics of good requirements that make them verifiable. Finally, it demonstrates how to develop a test plan and test cases using MBSE and simulate test execution.
Innoslate is a full lifecycle systems engineering tool that provides you with the capability to perform requirements analysis, functional and physical modeling, simulation, testing, and more all in one place.
Requirements Analysis and Management using InnoslateElizabeth Steiner
his one hour webinar will give you a step by step approach to Requirements Management and Analysis. A systems engineer will lead you through all the features in Innoslate that implement Requirements Management and Analysis.
What will be covered?
Capturing requirements using the automated parser
Writing requirements
Checking quality of requirements
Tracing requirements to other model entities
Baselining requirements
Getting started with Innoslate - Systems EngineeringElizabeth Steiner
In this webinar, "Getting Started with Innoslate" Andrew Tesnow, systems engineer at SPEC Innovations and former marine, will show you how to:
Navigate through Innoslate
Manage and Analyze Requirements
Model scenarios and processes
Develop traceability throughout the system lifecycle
Simulate scenarios and processes
and more
This guide will help you get started with Innoslate, the full lifecycle systems engineering tool. It will take you through developing your requirements, creating model, simulating your models, and keeping traceability through the entire project.
Advanced control scheme of doubly fed induction generator for wind turbine us...IJECEIAES
This paper describes a speed control device for generating electrical energy on an electricity network based on the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used for wind power conversion systems. At first, a double-fed induction generator model was constructed. A control law is formulated to govern the flow of energy between the stator of a DFIG and the energy network using three types of controllers: proportional integral (PI), sliding mode controller (SMC) and second order sliding mode controller (SOSMC). Their different results in terms of power reference tracking, reaction to unexpected speed fluctuations, sensitivity to perturbations, and resilience against machine parameter alterations are compared. MATLAB/Simulink was used to conduct the simulations for the preceding study. Multiple simulations have shown very satisfying results, and the investigations demonstrate the efficacy and power-enhancing capabilities of the suggested control system.
A SYSTEMATIC RISK ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR SECURING THE SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEMSIJNSA Journal
The smart irrigation system represents an innovative approach to optimize water usage in agricultural and landscaping practices. The integration of cutting-edge technologies, including sensors, actuators, and data analysis, empowers this system to provide accurate monitoring and control of irrigation processes by leveraging real-time environmental conditions. The main objective of a smart irrigation system is to optimize water efficiency, minimize expenses, and foster the adoption of sustainable water management methods. This paper conducts a systematic risk assessment by exploring the key components/assets and their functionalities in the smart irrigation system. The crucial role of sensors in gathering data on soil moisture, weather patterns, and plant well-being is emphasized in this system. These sensors enable intelligent decision-making in irrigation scheduling and water distribution, leading to enhanced water efficiency and sustainable water management practices. Actuators enable automated control of irrigation devices, ensuring precise and targeted water delivery to plants. Additionally, the paper addresses the potential threat and vulnerabilities associated with smart irrigation systems. It discusses limitations of the system, such as power constraints and computational capabilities, and calculates the potential security risks. The paper suggests possible risk treatment methods for effective secure system operation. In conclusion, the paper emphasizes the significant benefits of implementing smart irrigation systems, including improved water conservation, increased crop yield, and reduced environmental impact. Additionally, based on the security analysis conducted, the paper recommends the implementation of countermeasures and security approaches to address vulnerabilities and ensure the integrity and reliability of the system. By incorporating these measures, smart irrigation technology can revolutionize water management practices in agriculture, promoting sustainability, resource efficiency, and safeguarding against potential security threats.
Using recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) for pavements is crucial to achieving sustainability. Implementing RCA for new pavement can minimize carbon footprint, conserve natural resources, reduce harmful emissions, and lower life cycle costs. Compared to natural aggregate (NA), RCA pavement has fewer comprehensive studies and sustainability assessments.
ACEP Magazine edition 4th launched on 05.06.2024Rahul
This document provides information about the third edition of the magazine "Sthapatya" published by the Association of Civil Engineers (Practicing) Aurangabad. It includes messages from current and past presidents of ACEP, memories and photos from past ACEP events, information on life time achievement awards given by ACEP, and a technical article on concrete maintenance, repairs and strengthening. The document highlights activities of ACEP and provides a technical educational article for members.
Embedded machine learning-based road conditions and driving behavior monitoringIJECEIAES
Car accident rates have increased in recent years, resulting in losses in human lives, properties, and other financial costs. An embedded machine learning-based system is developed to address this critical issue. The system can monitor road conditions, detect driving patterns, and identify aggressive driving behaviors. The system is based on neural networks trained on a comprehensive dataset of driving events, driving styles, and road conditions. The system effectively detects potential risks and helps mitigate the frequency and impact of accidents. The primary goal is to ensure the safety of drivers and vehicles. Collecting data involved gathering information on three key road events: normal street and normal drive, speed bumps, circular yellow speed bumps, and three aggressive driving actions: sudden start, sudden stop, and sudden entry. The gathered data is processed and analyzed using a machine learning system designed for limited power and memory devices. The developed system resulted in 91.9% accuracy, 93.6% precision, and 92% recall. The achieved inference time on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with a 32-bit CPU running at 64 MHz is 34 ms and requires 2.6 kB peak RAM and 139.9 kB program flash memory, making it suitable for resource-constrained embedded systems.
Understanding Inductive Bias in Machine LearningSUTEJAS
This presentation explores the concept of inductive bias in machine learning. It explains how algorithms come with built-in assumptions and preferences that guide the learning process. You'll learn about the different types of inductive bias and how they can impact the performance and generalizability of machine learning models.
The presentation also covers the positive and negative aspects of inductive bias, along with strategies for mitigating potential drawbacks. We'll explore examples of how bias manifests in algorithms like neural networks and decision trees.
By understanding inductive bias, you can gain valuable insights into how machine learning models work and make informed decisions when building and deploying them.
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What Comes After MBSE Webinar
1. WhatComesAfterMBSE?
Steven H. Dam, Ph.D., ESEP
President, SPEC Innovations
571-485-7805
steven.dam@specinnovations.com
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2. AskUsYourQuestions
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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
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4. WhatIsModel-BasedSystemsEngineering?
• “Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is the
formalized application of modeling to support
system requirements, design, analysis, verification
and validation, beginning in the conceptual
design phase and continuing throughout
development and later life cycle phases.” –
INCOSE
• According to Google Trends, this search spiked in
mid-2005 (before it was defined by INCOSE) and
then dropped until a more recent rise beginning
in 2019
• The difficulty with this definition is that it would
apply to almost any diagramming framework,
including structured analysis, IDEF, UML, etc.
• The benefits of MBSE (and systems engineering in
general) have often been a major subject of
discussion
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Accessed 10/18/2022
5. WhereDidtheDataGo?
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• The models have stopped representing the data
• The information is often stuck in the model (diagrams) with
no underlying database or traceability
• Even when a database tool is used, little or no meta-data,
such as description, duration, size, capacity, latency, etc.
are captured
• Relationships to risk, cost, schedule and other critical
aspects of systems engineering are lost (if they existed in
the model in the first place)
• We’ve gotten so wrapped up in the model part of MBSE
that we’ve forgotten about the data
• OSD and SERC both have solutions to how to move
MBSE forward
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6. OSD’sInitiative:SystemsEngineeringModernization
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• The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Under
Secretary of Defense (USD) for Research and
Engineering has identified a number of “systems
engineering practices” that require “integration”
• The objective is to “modernize systems engineering to
support the delivery of capability to meet mission
needs”
• Congress also has provided legislative direction in four
of these practice areas:
• Digital Engineering
• MOSA
• Mission Engineering
• Agile Development
7. SEModernization–SERC‘sView
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SPEC
Innovations®
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2022 Dr.
Steven Dam
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“…this view emphasizes
the DE transformation
using a layered model
with data storage and
transformation at the
core…”
To implement this approach we need to be data-driven in systems engineering
Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
8. What’sData-DrivenSystemsEngineering(DDSE)?
• To integrate the “modern engineering practices” we need a common language, not just a set of models
• By using a language-driven approach, we can focus on the data and less on the form (“model”)
• This data-driven approach needs a new way to think about systems engineering – hence DDSE
• We define DDSE as:
• the transformation of user needs to requirements for design engineering and the transformation of design engineering data into verified
and validated system-level information for decision makers to make better decisions throughout the lifecycle
• This definition refocuses us on the underlying basis for systems engineering and explicitly identifies the benefit to all
stakeholders
• Design engineers get clear, easy-to-understand requirements
• Decision makers get the information they need to make good decisions
• Fortunately, there already exists such a language to meet this need: the Lifecycle Modeling Language (LML)
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9. LifecycleModelingLanguage(LML)
• LML was developed by a group of systems engineers who
realized that SysML was not meeting the needs of the
systems engineering and program management communities
• LML is current managed by the not-for-profit organization:
Lifecycle Modeling Organization (LMO)
• The Steering Committee is led by Dr. Warren Vaneman, USN
CAPT (retired) and Professor of Practice at the Naval
Postgraduate School (NPS)
• LML is taught in over 200 universities around the world,
including MIT, George Mason University, Stevens Institute of
Technology, West Point, NPS, Air Force Academy
• LML is easy to learn, use, and extend
• Visit http://www.lifecyclemodeling.org
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LML has proven to provide a strong ontology for systems engineering and program
management and forms the basis for Data-Driven Systems Engineering (DDSE)
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10. LMLOverview
• A simple, easy to use set of classes (nouns)
• Maps to DoDAF, UAF, SysML, BPMN, etc.
• Connected by two-way relationships (verbs)
• Easily extended
• Contains data elements for all the SE
Modernization practices
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11. HowDoWeImplementDDSE?
• Since we need to cover all aspects of systems engineering in a data-driven approach we need tools to support this
activity, as we cannot maintain this vast amount of data without using database technologies
• Those tools should include requirements analysis, functional/object analysis, modeling and simulation, verification and
validation, risk analysis, cost analysis, and schedule analysis as a minimum
• The tools should also support modern computer architectures with cloud computing being the most common today
• Secure clouds are currently available at all levels of security for any Department or Agency
• The tools also need to have an open architecture to enable easy movement of data between tools as we cannot expect
the world to adopt only one tool!
• So let’s look at tools today
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12. Most of Today’s Systems Engineering Tools Are Based
on 20th Century Technology
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Learning full SysML/UML often
takes months
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on many views
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redrawn (ex. the Sequence,
Activity, and BDD)
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installation to modify the
models
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simulation (Monte Carlo
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Activity Diagrams do not have to
be executable
Focus is typically only on
drawing models
Most organizations use
additional tools for requirements
management, test management,
and Monte Carlo simulation
Model conflicts during commits
(no real-time collaboration)
Models typically only
communicate to the SE domain
Server collaboration software
often does not scale and users
suffer long download/commit
times (>20 min)
Difficult
to Use
Limited Lifecycle
Management
Lack of
Collaboration
The Models Do
Not Execute
So is there a set of tools that can meet this need?
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13. Innoslate – A 21st Century Solution
Common options
at the forefront
Primary tool language
is easy to learn (LML)
Works with no
installation, in a web
browser
Autogenerated
diagrams and
dashboards
(concordance)
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Tested to over 10
Million entities and
1,000 simultaneous
users
Cloud hardware auto-
scales
Software designed to
scale
Simplicity Collaboration Accuracy
Real-Time
Collaboration (Group
Chat/Real Time)
Easy Communication
to other stakeholders
(not just SEs)
Proven Model-Based
or Data-Based Review
(MBR/DBR) capability
Full Discrete Event
Simulator which simulates
cost, schedule, and
performance is integrated
into the Action Diagrams
Full Monte Carlo Simulator
to simulate variance
NLP/ML for Requirements
Quality and Traceability
Intelligence View
Scalability
Full
Lifecycle
Management
Support
Interoperability
Automatically generate
and/or use other
representations (SysML,
DoDAF)
Import from other RM
tools (IBM DOORS CSV
and ReqIF, Excel CSV)
Integrations with STK,
MatLab, and GitHub
Open Java, REST, and
JavaScript APIs
Full requirements
analysis and
management capability
with Requirements
View
Full modeling capability
(SysML/LML/IDEF0)
Test Center (Test Suites
and Test Cases)
Documents View
(CONOPS, Project Plan,
and Test Plan)
First release: 2012
Cloud-Native
AI/NLP
Agile
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14. Sopatra®
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We designed Sopatra with the overall goal to demonstrate the
improved creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) by the
automated creation and verification of SOPs using a digital assistant
(DA)
• Uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for interacting with the
systems engineering development environment (i.e. creating the
behavior model)
• Provides configuration management and revision management of
massive models
• Develops executable simulation of the behavior model
• Built on Innoslate®
Sopatra is a digital assistant that
will convert text to an LML Action Diagram
and execute the simulation automatically
to check all possible paths
through the procedure.
Standard Operating Procedures Advanced Technology and Requirements Analysis
15. Ansys
• The Ansys tool suite is the “gold standard” of
design engineering tools
• With their recent acquisition of AGI, they
brought the premier geospatial analysis tool
(STK) into their tool set
• With the recent acquisition of Phoenix
Integration, they brought an amazing way to
integrate a variety of common modeling and
simulation tools – ModelCenter
• They are exploring porting what they can to
cloud computing environments, however for
system engineering, we need to mostly be
concerned with providing the design engineers
with good requirements and receive the results
of the design engineering activities
SPEC Innovations is an Ansys Partner
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17. Innoslate’sDigital Ecosystem
• Innoslate® provides a
complete DDSE/DDE
environment
• A JWA is used to interface
between the Innoslate
cloud tool and desktop
tools
• We have directly integrated
a number of key design
engineering technologies to
complete the digital thread
• Several other tools are
being added to enhance the
current capability
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Goals of
Integration:
1) Use data to
create
information
between tools;
2) Minimize
data duplication
between tools.
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18. Innoslate®UsesaMOSAArchitecture
• Plugins are viewpoints of the Innoslate
database
• Plugin features
• Not a standalone application (requires Innoslate
Core)
• All authentication is through Innoslate Core with
the options for:
• Single-Sign-On CAC (Default)
• Native Email/Password (Optional)
• LDAP (Optional)
• All data is stored in the U.S. Government
managed SQL database using Innoslate Core
(no data lock)
• Innoslate REST API facilitates plugin data
exchange
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Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) Architecture Enables
Architecture to Operations (DEVOPS)
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19. HowDoesLML,DDSE,andtheInnoslate/AnsysToolSuiteSupportSEModernization?
• Digital Engineering
• Innoslate, Sopatra, and the Ansys Tool Suite provide the full range of tools needed to create digital twins
• MOSA
• Functional analysis focuses on functions that can be allocated in many different ways – Innoslate provides a complete functional
(and object) analysis capability
• LML & Innoslate have unique interface diagrams to enable better definition of the interfaces
• Innoslate’s MOSA architecture enables modular use of the data too
• Mission Engineering
• Integration of the Innoslate discrete event simulator with STK enables us to plan, analyze, organize, and integrate operational and
system capabilities to achieve desired effects
• Agile Development
• Innoslate provides direct integration to software engineering tools (GitHub and Selenium – in near future) and provides Kanban
Boards and other Agile tools
• Can align Sprints and Epics with standard SETR events by conducting Data-Driven Reviews
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20. Summary
• SE Modernization requires us to use 21st
Century technologies to design and build
the future
• We need to use these technologies to
break down the walls we have erected
between these modern practices
• LML and the Innoslate/Ansys digital
engineering tools will help us break down
those walls and create the digital
ecosystem needed
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It’s all really about doing system engineering well!
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21. Next Webinar
“The Latest Innoslate Tips and
Tricks”
November 15th Webinar
Go To Webinar
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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
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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
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