Modern systems have become more and more complex, requiring the use of a wide range of tools to successfully manage their development. Considering this situation, seamless connectivity and interactions between those tools is of paramount importance to build a consistent and valuable digital thread.

As many development programs involve different organizations, there is also a growing need for connecting digital threads together to facilitate decision making. This poses a challenge of building interoperable toolchains that enable collaboration, data exchange and global configuration management along the system life cycle.

Capella, while offering an excellent framework for program collaboration and systems of systems development with the ARCADIA Method, can participate in this endeavour by being integrated into a Synchronized Source of Truth (SSoT) that gathers all systems engineering assets. Some tasks and processes that would nurture this synchronized repository are:

• Bi-directional System/System element requirements synchronization and traceability,
• Requirements attributes and consistency check,
• Model synchronization between organizations,
• Model conversion (SysML to ARCADIA),
• Life Cycle-wide configuration management,
• Model element reports publication.

This talk will show how the integration of Capella models into SES ENGINEERING Studio’s multi-activity platform can benefit to collaborating organizations in development programs, ensuring data exchange and synchronization as well as ontology-controlled requirements management.

Jose Fuentes (The REUSE Company)

• Chief Sales Manager
• Former Product Manager of RQA and the Systems Engineering Suite
• INCOSE CSEP Certified
• Graduated in the INCOSE Institute for Technical Leadership
• Member of the board of AEIS – The Spanish chapter of INCOSE
• Active contributor to the INCOSE Guide to Writing Requirements
• Other certifications: ITIL
• Other interests: Project Management, Business Analysis, Risk Management

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This presentation is based on Horizon Europe Project Demo-BLog where the business needs where pre-defined, and the challenges focused on defining requirements at an abstract opportunity/problem space domain level for an automated renovation advice tool.

To accomplish this task, a System Definition process was undertaken to achieve the Engineering solution space domain. And to achieve the System Definition methodology the author decided to focus on first creating an Interface Control Document that consisted of high-level overview architecture of the target system CLEA (Digital Building Logbook) and the source system BDNB (Base de Données Nationale des Bâtiments).

However, the alternative architectures presented challenges such as how to validate the requirements at this stage. The chosen tool/technique was THALES (Model-Based System Engineering) – Capella Tool and Arcadia Methodology. The article presents this approach, which included: operational analysis, system needs analysis, logical architecture and discussions reflecting the physical architecture relating to the requirement phases of need understanding and solution architecture design.

The outcome of this presentation is The French Demonstration Preliminary Requirements and acknowledgement to the benefits of MBSE: Improved communications, Increased ability to manage system complexity, Improved product quality, Reduced Recycled Time, Reduced Risk, Enhanced knowledge capture and reuse of the information.

Alan Martin Redmond is a Senior Consultant & Project Innovation Manager and a Business Development Engineer. Where he focuses primarily on Mobility, Energy and Industry, and Defense and Security. Alan holds a Doctor of Philosophy, part of the Computer Sciences Commons and the Construction Engineering and Management Commons from Technological University Dublin; a Professional Certificate in Systems Engineering from UCIrvine, a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Toronto, Department of Civil Engineering. He is also a member of the ThinkMind // Modern Systems committee, international conferences of Modern Systems Engineering Solutions. Alan has extensive experience in European projects.

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