Capella Day Munich 2019

The 16th of September, 2019
Thanks everyone !

Access the slides

Capella Day was held on September 16th at Munich. 80 participants, 16 speakers, 14 countries represented: thanks everyone for this great third edition!

You missed it and want to know what happened there? Please read this news and discover the photos.

Stay tuned to know when and where the next Capella Day will be organized by following the @capella_arcadia Twitter account, the Capella LinkedIn account, or joining the LinkedIn discussion group about Capella.

Feel free to check the Capella official website and its upcoming events section.

You can also discover the slides.


 

Capella Day 2019 logo

About

What is Capella Day?

This one-day event, organized by Thales and Obeo, brings together the community of Capella and Arcadia:

  • creators of this innovative systems engineering solution,
  • providers of Capella add-ons and services,
  • MBSE experts and industrial users.

See all the editions.

What is Capella?

Capella is an open-source and field-proven Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) solution to successfully design systems architecture.

It provides systems, software and hardware architects with rich methodological guidance relying on Arcadia, a comprehensive model-based engineering method based on both industrial experimentations and system engineers' feedback

Natively supporting Arcadia , Capella can be customized to fit the specific needs of many industrial domains.

Learn more

Partners

Capella Day is organized by Obeo and Thales

Thales logo

Obeo logo

Agenda

Talks Speakers
08:45 - 09:15 Coffee
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome and Introduction
  • Etienne Juliot, Obeo
09:30 - 10:30

Capella and Arcadia

 

  • Stéphane Bonnet, Thales Corporate Engineering
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:20

Community and Ecosystem | Session 1

 

  • Valéry Teguiak & Hondjack Dehainsala, Framatome
  • Matthieu Connen & Maxime Piot, RATP
  • Thierry Lesergent, ANSYS
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:10

Community and Ecosystem | Session 2

 

  • Christoph Marhold, Siemens PLM Software
  • Renfei Xu & Wenhua Fang, Glaway
  • Laurent Delaigue, Obeo
  • Benoît Viaud, Artal
  • Marc Zeller, Siemens Corporate Technology
15:10 - 15:40 Break
15:40 - 16:40

Community and Ecosystem | Session 3

 

  • Bharani Mohan & Paul Goossens, MapleSoft
  •  

  • Robert Hellebrand, pure-Systems
  • Jose Fuentes, The Reuse Company
16:40 - 17:20

Community and Ecosystem | Panel

During this panel, you and the speakers will discuss about Capella adoption and perspectives.

 

  • All speakers
17:20 - 17:50 Closing Cocktail

Talks

Augmenting requirements with models to improve the articulation between system engineering levels and optimize V&V practices

Model-based systems engineering has developed significantly over the last few years, resulting in an increased usage of models in systems specification and architecture description. The question of the positioning of requirement engineering versus MBSE is a recurrent one.

This talk describes one vision of this articulation where textual and model requirements actually complete each other. The results are improved contracts across engineering levels and more formalized V&V practices.

Stéphane Bonnet - Capella Days Speaker

Stéphane Bonnet, Thales Corporate Engineering

Stéphane Bonnet is in charge of Thales Corporate MBSE Coaching and Design Authority of the Capella open source modeling solution. For the last ten years, he has led the development of Capella and has been an active contributor to the Arcadia model-based method for systems, hardware and software architectural design. In Thales, he is animating a wide community of modeling experts from all domains and countries to investigate low-maturity modeling topics, capture end-user needs, and orient method and workbench roadmaps.
Slides

 

Feedback on deployment of Capella at Framatome

Open source software like Capella comes with advantages like the easy way to extend or customize it and drawbacks including support to users especially when they are working in a collaborative way. This presentation will share how Capella has been deployed in Framatome so that systems engineer/architect do not care much about technical issues but remain focus on their business.

Furthermore, in a context where many companies have their data described in excel files, XLS Pivot (part our MBSE Suite tool), is a generic MBSE solution developed by Framatome on top of Capella to help users to exchange data from Excel to Capella and vice versa. This presentation will show XLS Pivot in action.

Valéry Teguiak - Capella Days Speaker

Valéry Teguiak, Framatome

Valéry Teguiak works as R&D Engineer Consultant at Framatome where he leads software engineering projects on top of Capella. He is a software engineer and obtained a PhD from the ISAE-ENSMA for his work on Data Engineering and Metamodeling-based Solution.
Slides

 

Feedback on deployment of Capella at RATP

The RATP group is modernizing Paris' public transportation network, which includes managing complex integration projects across metro, tram, and rail systems. They deployed CAPELLA to help optimize their systems engineering approach and manage this complexity. RATP took a cautious approach, prioritizing high-value uses of CAPELLA to minimize risks. They have found benefits like improved sharing of concepts, design structure and clarity, reuse across projects, and time savings. RATP is working to qualify more CAPELLA uses and share lessons learned.

Matthieu Connen - Capella Days Speaker

Matthieu Connen, RATP

Matthieu Connen is System Architect at RATP
Maxime Piot - Capella Days Speaker

Maxime Piot, RATP

Maxime Piot is System Architect at RATP
Slides

 

Integrating Capella, SCADE and medini analyze, for MBSE, Embedded SW Development and Safety Analysis

Thierry Le Sergent - Capella Days Speaker

Thierry Le Sergent, ANSYS

Thierry Le Sergent is Product Manager for ANSYS's SCADE Architect product. His focus is on model-based system & software engineering tools for the development of critical embedded systems.
Slides

 

Capella integration with Teamcenter

The main reason we do product architecture is to communicate to downstream product development what they need to build, thus the need to integrate the Capella product architecture with the product lifecycle through PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). Siemens’ Teamcenter PLM is used by millions of developers around the world in thousands of organizations. Capella is being integrated with Teamcenter enabling it to actively participate in the product lifecycle to drive the entire product development process.

This session will provide an update on Siemens’ PLM integration progress and demonstrate the value of a Capella enabled product lifecycle.

Christoph Marhold

Christoph Marhold, Siemens PLM Software

Slides

 

Model Execution and System Simulation in Capella

A common need in system architecture design is to verify that if the architect is correct and can satisfy its requirements. Execution of system architect model means to interact with state machines to test system’s control logic. It can verify if the logical sequences of functions and interfaces in different scenarios are desired.

However, only sequence itself is not enough to verify its consequence or output. So we need each function to do what it is supposed to do during model execution to verify its output, and that is what we called “system simulation”.

This presentation introduces how we do model execution in Capella, and how to embed digital mockup inside functions to do “system simulation” with a higher confidence.

Renfei Xu - Capella Days Speaker

Renfei Xu, Glaway

Renfei Xu is the technical manager of MBSE solution in Glaway. He has participated in many pilot projects of MBSE in areas like Engine Control, Avionics, Mechatronics and so on. In recent years, he is responsible for the deployment of MBSE using Capella and ARCADIA methodology in a Radar research institute.
Wenhua Fang - Capella Days Speaker

Wenhua Fang, Glaway

Wenhua Fang is the Director of Systems Engineering in Glaway. He has more than 12 years of working experience in SE.
He is responsible for more than 10 implementation projects of MBSE in areas like Aircraft, Engine Control, Avionics, Automotive and so on. In recent years, he leads the team to deploy MBSE in China(including using Capella and ARCADIA methodology).
Slides

 

Integrating Capella with your own ecosystem of tools

The current industrial trends related, among others, to digital twins or large scale systems of systems, drive companies to using MBSE tools such as Capella. However, these tools have to be part of the overall ecosystem of tools used by such companies (e.g. complex systems manufacturers).

One example is the integration with a PLM solution, that we will illustrate by explaining how we have integrated Capella and Teamcenter by developping System Modeling Workbench.

Beyond technical aspects (build the product, managing its lifecycle with regards to constraints brought by the market and by the open source processes, etc.) we will also discuss the organization of the collaboration needed to perform this kind of integration project.

Laurent Delaigue - Capella Days Speaker

Laurent Delaigue, Obeo

Laurent Delaigue has been working in the field of model engineering for 15 years. As a modeling consultant at Obeo for 10 years, he participates in numerous modeling projects generally based on open-source technologies such as Acceleo, Sirius or Capella.
Slides

 

Providing early timing analysis of the system design

When designing real-time systems, one issue is to grant that the system will always behave properly within the expected time constraints.
By capturing the design choices in Capella (periodic/sporadic events, precedence relation between tasks, network communication between resources, mutual exclusion resources, etc.), Tideal viewpoint not only allows to compute the worst-case execution time for end-to-end flows traversing the system but also provides some feedback to the architect to better understand the temporal behavior of the system.

Benoit Viaud - Capella Days Speaker

Benoit Viaud, Artal

Benoit Viaud leads Artal’s System Engineering unit. He initiated the creation of Citrus, a one-stop-shop engineering framework for simulation and is deeply involved in its deployment in Airbus. He also carries out coaching and consulting activities around Capella.
Slides

 

Model-based safety analysis on Capella using Component Fault Trees (CFTs)

The importance of mission or safety-critical software systems in many application domains of embedded systems is continuously growing, and so is the effort and complexity for reliability and safety analysis. Model-based system engineering (MBSE) is currently one of the key approaches to cope with increasing system complexity.

With Component Fault Trees (CFTs) there is a model- and component-based methodology for safety analysis, which extends the advantages of model-based development to safety & reliability engineering. In this talk, we demonstrate how to ease the development of safety-critical systems in industrial practice by extending MBSE in Capella with model-based safety analysis using Component Fault Tree methodology.

Marc Zeller - Capella Days Speaker

Marc Zeller, Siemens Corporate Engineering

Marc Zeller works as a research scientist at Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, in Munich since 2014. His research interests are focused on the model-based safety and reliability engineering of complex software-intensive embedded systems. Marc Zeller studied Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and graduated in 2007. He obtained a PhD from the University of Augsburg in 2013 for his work on self-adaptation in networked embedded systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Embedded Systems and Communication Technologies ESK in Munich.
Slides

 

An Excel-based Systems-Engineering Tool for Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration across the Enterprise

MapleMBSE is an Excel-based tool that makes it easy for every stakeholder to engage with the Systems Engineering project without requiring them to be an expert in your primary SE tools.
MapleMBSE makes broad engagement possible with Excel-based, task-specific interfaces for each activity in the systems design process.
By giving all stakeholders access to the process through a live, two-way connection to systems model, you can ensure that all stakeholders can collaborate through the “single source of truth”, allowing them to work faster, avoid errors, and reduce unbudgeted costs.
This presentation will demonstrate how MapleMBSE can be used for several use-cases on the Capella platform, based on Maplesoft’s experience with NASA JPL in the US and Nissan in Japan.

Bharani Mohan - Capella Days Speaker

Bharani Mohan, Maplesoft

Bharani is an MBSE specialist, and facilitates the improvement of the overall user experience throughout the model-based system engineering process.
He works with customers to enhance their use of Maplesoft’s MapleMBSE platform, providing guidance and assisting with issues. He also supports the development of specific MapleMBSE features to encourage broader adoption.
With a background in Aerospace Engineering, Bharani has experience applying MBSE design methodologies in conceptual design of aircraft systems architecture, and translating design requirements into system architecture.
Paul Goossens - Capella Days Speaker

Paul Goossens, Maplesoft

Paul Goosseens is Vice President MBSE Solutions at Maplesot. A mechanical engineer by background, he has over 25 years of experience in technical and business management, primarily in advanced computational technologies for engineering applications.
He has built a strong reputation as an expert in modeling, simulation and analysis of complex multi-domain systems for virtual prototyping and control software testing, spending a good part of his career promoting model-based methodologies within the automotive, aerospace and manufacturing industries.
He currently manages the Model-based Systems Engineering business unit at Maplesoft, charged with executing strategies for the development of new markets, product planning, sales and marketing support, service business development, and strategic partnerships.
Slides

 

MBSE & PLE: Systematic Reuse of Capella Models with pure::variants

In domains that deal with the development of complex systems consisting of software and hardware it is often a challenge to find an efficient and holistic reuse strategy for existing engineering assets that allows to keep the engineering competitiveness high even though a growing number of markets and specific customer needs shall be covered by a product family.
Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a well-known approach to address this challenge. In this session we will cover how PLE and MBSE can be brought together using the open-source MBSE solution Capella in combination with the Variant Management tool pure::variants to implement a systematic reuse of system architecture across multiple product variants.

Robert Hellebrand - Capella Days Speaker

Robert Hellebrand, pure-systems

Robert Hellebrand is a Field Application Engineer at pure-systems GmbH, where he helps customers from automotive, aerospace, defence and other domains with their challenges in systematic reuse of engineering assets and the transition from project-oriented development towards feature model-based product line engineering with pure::variants.
Previously, Robert worked on the topic of variant management as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering.
Slides

 

Capella integration with RAT - Authoring Tools

When it comes to writing and managing requirements aligned with models in Capella, RAT, the Rich Authoring Tool from the REUSE Company, is the perfect companion. RAT provides AI and Natural Language Processing (a complete Semantic approach) to write the perfect requirements. The following functions are offered by RAT for Capella plug-in:

  • Quality: real-time quality assessment of rules such as the ones defined in the INCOSE Guide for Writing Requirements, the NASA Handbook, the ECSS rules followed by the Space industry, or others.
  • Consistency: using a set of patterns to come out with a consistent structure for your requirements across the organization.
  • Requirements-Models traceability and integration: requirements and models will always be integrated. RAT offers the names of the models in Capella to fill the placeholders as defined and agreed in the patterns, keeping a link to automatically change your requirements when the elements are renamed or edited.
  • Round-trip: bidirectional connectivity between Capella and DOORS, allowing adding or editing requirements in IBM DOORS seamlessly using the elements defined in a Capella model, make the most of the capabilities offered by DOORS and then synchronize your requirements back to Capella keeping all the references to the Capella elements and sections.
  • Accessibility: RAT aggregates requirements in a SMART Grid in Capella. Different grids can be shown based on the selection of elements in the model. The grid provides shorting, filtering, advanced search, or quality rates for each elements, among many other functionalities.
  • Integration with the SES Suite of REUSE Company: RAT for Capella plug-in is fully integrated with RQA - Quality Studio to tailor the quality rules, or check the completeness and consistency analysis between requirements and models. RAT for Capella is also fully integrated with KM – Knowledge Manager to provide additional content to your data dictionary or to tailor the patterns used by RAT.
José Fuentes - Capella Days Speaker

José Fuentes, The Reuse Company

José Fuentes obtained his degree in Information Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain).
After getting his degree, he founded, together with other 5 colleagues, an SME with the vision of streamlining the software development processes. After some years as product manager for some software tools aimed at software engineers, he and his company turned into the systems engineering discipline.
His professional experience is focused on the Management of software development projects, as well as training and consultancy activities related to project management (PMP), CMMI, requirements management… For more than 10 years, he’s been leading the team of developers in charge of creating the suite of tools Requirements Quality Suite in The REUSE Company.
This includes from the research stage to the commercialization stage. He has participated as the main company researcher in several EU projects like: AUTOSoft (4FP: SPRIT Project 25762) aiming to provide tools and methods for software reuse; and CRYSTAL (ART Call 2012: 332830) taking up the challenge to establish and push forward an Interoperability Specification (IOS) and a Reference Technology Platform (RTP) as a European standard for safety-critical systems. AMASS (ECSEL no 692474) in the field of assurance and certification of Cyber-Physical Systems; or REVAMP2 (ITEA3 No. 15010) aiming to conceive new generations of Product Lines. José is now COO at The REUSE Company, dealing with customers and partners in the fields of aerospace, defence, automotive, railway…
José is also actively collaborating with INCOSE. His main activity within INCOSE are: Member of the board of AEIS, the Spanish Chapter of INCOSE ; Technical director of AEIS ; Managing relationships with CABs at AEIS ; Main contributor to the INCOSE Guide for Writing Requirements ; Member of the Requirements and Ontology Working Groups
Slides