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Orchestrate your technical program

and become more agile and efficient with
Model Based Systems Engineering

Trends

Pressure to Reduce Increasing Program Increased Globalization

Program Cost Complexity and Electrification
Increasing globalization in
and Schedule Integration of Products
company supply chains,
Companies are under pressure Aerospace and defense Decarbonization, reliability, workforce and the competition
to reduce program cost and products are becoming maintainability and is driving changes to how
schedule while meeting increasingly complex and performance of products are companies collaborate both
requirements for new products. highly integrated. driving increased electrification. internally and externally.

Complexity growth in A&D

240 Long-Range
Strike (est.)
220
Design, Investigation and testing (months)

NEW IC 10X Increase in

200 Design Flow Manageable
Complexity
180
140 Aerospace Vehicle
1990s
5X Reduction in
MII-STD-499A Development Effort
120
100 NEW Automobile
Design Flow
80
Automobile Aerospace Vehicle
60 1960s 1960s
Goal
40 Integrated Circuit
Automobile
1990s Integrated Circuit
1960s Next Gen
Pentium
20 Intel 8088 Intel 286 Intel 386 Automobile
Next Gen Xeon
0
1E+03 1E+04 1E+05 1E+06 1E+07 1E+08 1E+09 1E+10
Source: DARPA Complexity
[Part Count + Source Lines of Code (SLOC)]

Relation of SE investments and program cost overruns

200
GRO 78
OMV
160 TDRSS
IRAS
%Overrun

HST
GALL
120 TETH
LAND 76 EDO (Recent Start)
ACT ERB 77
80 COBE
MAG STS
LAND 78
GRO 82 HEAD
40 SEASAT
UARS
VOYAGER
DE ULYSES
SMM PIONVEN IUE ISEE
0
0 5 10 15 20 25
%Spent on Systems Engineering

Source: www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Economic_Value_of_Systems_Engineering

MBSE factors related to investment and gains

9
Normalized system life cycle cost

8
Cost of Process Definition Early Defect Detection
7
Infrastructure Cost Reuse
6
Training Cost Risk Reduction
5
Model Development Improved Communication
Model Verification 4 Usage in Supply Chain
Model Curation 3
MBSE Product line Definition
Configuration Management 2 Standard Conformance & Traceability
TRADITIONAL SE
1

0
Factors related to 0 2 4 6 8 10 Factors related to
MBSE investment MBSE Gains
Conceptual Preliminary Detailed Manufacturing and
Design Design Design Acquisition

Time
Source: www.mdpi.com/journal/systems

Challenges with certifying and managing programs

Compliance with Difficult to manage Increased cost and risks

regulatory requirements document-centric systems due to integration of complex systems
engineering processes and supplier relationships

Model Based Systems Engineering... What if you could…?

…orchestrate the technical content and scope of …continuously monitor with real-time access
your program throughout the entire lifecycle? to key technical performance indicators?

PROGRAM

CONCEPTUAL PRELIMINARY CERTIFICATION/

DETAIL DESIGN TEST & BUILD
DESIGN DESIGN AIRWORTHINESS

SPEC PDR CDR TRR TEST CERT/ EIS

REVIEW COMPLETE FINAL
VERIFICATION

…work collaboratively ...eliminate integration …trace design decisions

with your supply chain issues before reaching within your product from …trace final verification
no matter the toolset? detail design? concept design through the design back
to the final product? to requirements?

MBSE Digital Thread to orchestrate your technical program

One thread to connect and guide all domains

Product Design and Engineering

Systems Engineering
drives the program’s
technical scope Verification Management

MBSE
Requirements System System Software Verification
Digital
Management Modeling Safety Development Management
Thread

Program Management
Supplier Management
Intelligent Manufacturing Product Support

Drive scope by moving from system modeling to the comprehensive MBSE digital thread

Track requirements and architecture implementations throughout design to verification

Capture design decisions as your product matures

Integrate complex product and supply chain interfaces

Flexible and open multi-tool solution

Accelerate your new product development and become more agile

Get your design right the first time

through up-front systems engineering
Reduce risk Speed to market
Manage complex product
and supply chain integration

Full lifecycle solution to deliver safe,

reliable products faster – and within budget
Ensure compliance Beat the competition

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