Capella Day Stuttgart 2018

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Capella Day is organized by Obeo and Thales

Agenda

	Talks	Speakers
08:45 - 09:15	Coffee
09:15 - 09:30	Introduction and Welcome
09:30 - 10:30	Capella and Arcadia What Makes Capella Different? Arcadia by the example, an introduction	Stéphane Bonnet, Thales Corporate Engineering Jean-Luc Voirin, Thales Corporate Engineering
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Feedbacks on Experience The challenges of multi-disciplinary systems engineering Use of Capella in bid phase of railway signalling projects, experiences and challenges	Clément Grise, ArianeGroup Dr Michael Schaefer, Dr Michael Schaefer
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:10	Add-ons and extensions Team Collaboration and Document Generation with Capella Managing your Capella assets with Yuzu Reuse of Capella assets with pure::variants – How to capitalize on your assets?	Laurent Delaigue, Obeo Benoit Viaud, Artal Prof. Dr. Danilo Beuche, Pure-Systems GmbH
15:00 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 17:00	Community and Ecosystem Guide to Arcadia and Capella successful adoption The Capella Industrial Consortium Panel	Pascal Roques, PRFC Ralph Müller, The Eclipse Foundation
Closing

Talks

What Makes Capella Different?

Is Capella just another modeling solution?

After all, you also draw boxes and arrows. After all, you also model structure, data, interfaces, behavior. After all, you also have to define your own modeling guidelines and objectives.

So, what makes Capella different from the other modeling solutions out there?

What is the scope of Capella and its corresponding methodology Arcadia? How can you benefit from nearly 10 years of MBSE return on experiment? Why is open source a game changer? How can you contribute to shape the future of your own engineering environment?

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..

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Arcadia by the example, an introduction

What kind of engineering data are managed in Arcadia? How are they related and confronted to each other’s? How can this help in defining a solution and checking its adequacy with need? Answers to these questions will be illustrated by an insight inside an example model whose elaboration will be commented.

Jean-Luc Voirin, Thales Corporate Engineering Jean-Luc Voirin is Director, Engineering and Modeling, in Thales Defense Missions Systems business unit and Technical Directorate. He has been an architect of real-time and near real-time computing and mission systems on civil and mission aircraft and fighters. He is the principal author of the Arcadia method and an active contributor to the definition of methods and tools. He is involved in coaching activities across all Thales business units, in particular on flagship and critical projects.

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The challenges of multi-disciplinary systems engineering

In this talk you will learn how ArianeGroup is meeting the challenges of multi-disciplinary system engineering through MBSE and the introduction of the Arcadia Method and Capella.

Alain Huet, ArianeGroup Alain Huet is head of System Engineering Solutions at Airbus Safran Launchers, managing the adoption of MBSE. Working in the Airbus group for more than 35 years, he has been participating in the development of numerous defence and space programs such as satellites, launchers, space vehicles, and air traffic management. On these systems he has used and implemented processes, methods and tools to manage requirements, validation & verification, real time and hardware in the loop simulations.

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Use of Capella in bid phase of railway signalling projects, experiences and challenges

Capella and the underlying method ARCADIA are well known as system architecture tools used in the development phase of systems. But the preceding bid phase often require a creation of a rough system architecture, for example for the coordination of the interfaces to neighbouring systems.

This presentation shows how the different layers of ARCADIA and the corresponding implementation in Capella could be used to solve several problems occurring in the bid phase. Additional it illustrates the challenges resulting from the broad variability of solution in the railway signalling business.

 

Dr Michael Schaefer, Thales Deutschland Dr Michael Schaeffer is working since 1992 for Thales and the predecessor companies Alcatel and SEL as software and system architect in the following areas: Software architecture for mail line and urban rail control systems in Germany, Austria and Switzerland System engineering, mainly requirements analysis and management for Signalling Systems of several customers (in Germany (Deutsche Bahn), Saudi-Arabia, Denmark, etc.) System architecture, esp. model based approaches with several UML tools, as well as with Arcadia/Capella for large scale Signalling Systems Working as System Safety expert for Railway Signalling. In this context member of several standardization working groups of CENELEC As Lead System Architect for Main Line Rail Signalling in Thales Germany responsible for developing a Model Based Reference System Architecture to manage the variability of railway signalling solutions Since 2015 he is Certified System Engineering Professional (CSEP) of INCOSE.

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Team Collaboration and Document Generation with Capella

Your MBSE projects involve teams working concurrently? You need to produce many documents from the models of your systems?

During this talk, you will discover two Capella adds-on: Team for Capella and M2Doc.

Team for Capella allows users to collaborate on remotely shared models and representations, while M2Doc automates the production of MS Word™ files from your models.

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- ource technologies such as Acceleo, Sirius or Capella.

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Managing your Capella assets with Yuzu

To support reuse strategies, Capella provides the powerful mechanism of REC/REP that, along with libraries, allows to organize reusable building blocks. To go further, the latest version of Capella embeds a new modeling accelerator that drastically ease the creation process of a REC library. With these exciting features, no doubt that the number of libraries will keep increasing. And when you mix this with version management, the combinations rapidly explode. In all your production, how to find the right library?

Yuzu is an asset management solution - based on the OMG RAS standard - that will allow you to keep track of all the Capella projects and libraries. In addition to the business meta-information filled by the author, Yuzu automatically extracts additional data, metrics and dependencies from the Capella model and then publish the packaged model in a repository. Later, the powerful query engine allows you to search for a specific model, based on any meta-information or model content and download it along with all its dependencies. Never lose track of your Capella models again!

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. Active member of Clarity project, he also carries out coaching and consulting activities around Capella.

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Systematic reuse of Capella assets with pure::variants – How to capitalize on your assets?

Compared to single product development, developing and maintaining a portfolio of related products comes with additional challenges. A systematic approach is needed to realize a high reuse rate that minimizes the maintenance effort and maximizes the productivity.

Prof. Dr. Danilo Beuche will present how these challenges can be tackled for all assets of the development lifecycle using pure::variants, focusing on its integration with Capella.

Prof. Dr. Danilo Beuche, Pure-Systems Prof. Dr. Danilo Beuche is CEO of pure-systems GmbH. pure-systems is a software company specialized in services and tool development for the application of product line technologies in software-intensive systems He started to work in the field of embedded operating systems and software families in the mid 90's. He also received his PhD in this area. His work on tool support for feature based software development finally lead to the founding of pure-systems in 2001.

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Guide to Arcadia and Capella successful adoption

This presentation will focus on key factors in order to adopt MBSE successfully with Arcadia/Capella.

What are the questions to ask before embracing MBSE, how to organize teams, what are the key steps of adoption, what are the main pitfalls?

We will try to provide insight into recent Capella adoption efforts from various companies, lessons learned and best practices.

Pascal Roques, PRFC Pascal Roques is a Senior Consultant with more than 25 years of experience in consulting and training in modeling with SADT, OMT, UML, SysML and Arcadia/Capella, He is a regular trainer for Thales on Systems Modeling with Arcadia, long before Capella was open-sourced. Since 2008, he has led more than 140 Capella courses in France and Europe for more than a thousand engineers. Pascal is the author of the first book published on Capella at Elsevier - Iste Editions.

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The Capella Industrial Consortium

In the last few decades, companies have developed business models around open source providing services, extensions, courses and so on: Business friendly ecosystems around open source technologies like Linux, Eclipse, Apache have developed. In the late 2000's, the Eclipse Foundation started to replicate the best practices that made the success of the Eclipse platform to new domains, and to integrate industry players that were seen as software consumers at the core of these new ecosystems. The main driver for these new form of consortia was to use open source as a framework for open collaboration and open innovation.

The presentation will briefly discuss the challenges that industries are facing (cross-company, cross-domain, long-term availability, open innovation). After that, we will present the Capella Industry Consortium (IC) that has been created as a new Eclipse Working Group to develop the Capella ecosystem with vendor-neutral and open governance. It aims at fostering collaborations, sharing investment and best practices and leveraging Open Innovation to co-develop new MBSE capabilities. The scope of this Working Group focuses on the Capella tool, the add-ons and the underlying technologies.

Ralph Müller, The Eclipse Foundation Ralph Müller is currently the Managing Director of the Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH, a subsidiary of the Eclipse Foundation Inc., responsible for supporting the Eclipse open-source community and commercial ecosystem in Europe. With over 260 corporate members worldwide and over 150 projects, Eclipse is one of the world’s most successful open source communities. Prior to joining Eclipse in 2005, I have worked for Vector Informatik, IBM , OTI and Siemens. He has earned a degree as a Diplom-Informatiker from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

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