Is 2017 the year of the product?
To succeed and win against sophisticated competitors, product teams must excel at verifying their systems behavior and design as products progress through definition, development and the complete post-manufacturing product lifecycle.
There's a lot at stake, especially in today's connected world. Components and products have become systems ─ even "systems of systems" ─ where product designs require a mix of hardware, software, electronics and/or firmware. If Models Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is not tightly linked to Product Lifecycle Management software (PLM), product quality issues will emerge, putting brands, companies and their stakeholders at risk.
A recently published white paper addresses the way in which robust system behavioral modeling can be integrated with downstream design practices to produce better, safer products.
By integrating MBSE and PLM, product development organizations can overcome many of the current challenges of MBSE. MBSE-PLM integrations would allow product teams to:
- Communicate systems design intent and capture early feedback (by extracting MBSE outputs in easy-to-view formats and disseminating them to downstream, discipline-specific engineers)
- Create a contextual environment for multiple system sub-models, allowing conflicts to be identified earlier
- Create a complete digital thread that links requirements through design, manufacturing and service assets (via a traceable linkage from an MBSE model to discipline-specific hardware and software development outputs)
- Put MBSE models under formal revision and change control once detail design has started MBSE
Report: MBSE and PLM for Product Success
Read the paper entitled "MBSE and the Business of Engineering" to gain insight into the latest advancement in system-level thinking, to help inform senior engineering professionals responsible for the cross-discipline lifecycle of their products.