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Systems Engineering December 2009 | Volume 12 Issue 4 A PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING What’s Inside Model-Based Systems Engineering: The New Paradigm President’s Corner SysML Tools Inclusive Thinking for INCOSE’s Future 3 RSA/E+/SysML No Magic/SysML RSA/E+/SysML Operational Factory Excavator Excavator Model System Model Scenario Executable Special Feature Scenario Introduction to this Special Edition on Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) 7 Interface & Transformation Tools SysML: Lessons from Early Applications and Future Directions 10 (VIATRA, XaiTools,…) Model-based Systems Engineering for Systems of Systems 12 Traditional Traditional Descriptive Tools Simulation & Analysis Tools MBSE Methodology Survey 16 Model Center NX/MCAD Tool Optimization Using Model-based Systems Engineering to Supplement the Excavator Model Certification-and-Accreditation Process of the U.S. Boom Model Ansys Mathematica Department of Defense 19 Reliability Factory CAD FEA Model Model Factory Executable and Integrative Whole-System Modeling via the Layout Model Application of OpEMCSS and Holons for Model-based Excel Dymola Dig Cycle Cost Model Systems Engineering 21 Excel Model Production MBSE in Telescope Modeling 24 Ramps eM-Plant Factory Model-based Systems Praxis for Intelligent Enterprises 34 Simulation 2009-02-25a The Challenge of Model-based Systems Engineering for Space Systems, Year 2 36 Integrating System Design with Simulation and Analysis The Use of Systems Engineering Methods to Explain the Using SysML 40 Success of an Enterprise 65 A Modeling Approach to Document Production 44 Technical Activites MBSE for European Space-Systems Development 47 Announcing BKCASE: Body of Knowledge and Curriculum SysML is the Point of Departure for MBSE, Not the Destination 54 to Advance Systems Engineering 69 Fellows’ Insight New Guidelines for Graduate Software-Engineering Education 70 Key Issues of Systems Engineering 58 Notes to the Editor What Are the General Principles Applicable to Systems? 59 Book Review: Reviewer’s Response to Author’s Reply 73 Forum Final Thoughts Are You Programmable, Inventive, or Innovative? 65 From the Chief Editor 76 INCOSE Professional Certification Now is the time! Get recognition for your systems engineering experience and knowledge through the INCOSE certifi cation program! Apply today. Visit www.incose.org and click on the CSEP icon to begin. 2 December 2009 | Volume 12 Issue 4 PResiDent’S CORneR and systems of tremendous variety. INSIGHT At the 2008 IW, I emphasized that our members are the Publication of the International President’s most important asset we have, and I want to reaffirm that Council on Systems Engineering judgment. INCOSE’s greatest strength is the generosity, skill, and dedication of its members. Our products are a direct result Chief Editor Bob Kenley [email protected] +1 260 460 0054 of that dedication and professionalism, and even as the chal- Assistant Editor Andrew Cashner Corner [email protected] lenges and products grow in complexity, our individual mem- Theme Editor Rob Cloutier [email protected] bers, often backed by our corporate members, are successfully Advertising Editor Christine Kowalski forging ahead in multiple initiatives that will enable continued [email protected] +1 858 541 1725 Inclusive Thinking for INCOSE’s Future Layout and Design Chuck Eng Pat Hale, [email protected] growth and success in applications of systems engineering. [email protected] +1 206 364 8696 Member Services INCOSE Central Office For those who are leaders of this organization, whether at [email protected] +1 858 541-1725 On the Web http://www.incose.org the chapter, national, or international levels, we must always Article Submission [email protected] wo years ago at the 2008 Interna- remember that we serve the members and the profession, and Publication Schedule. INSIGHT is published four times per year. Issue and article/advertisement submission deadlines are as follows: tional Workshop, I started my time allow that sense of service to guide our decisions. April 2010 issue – 15 February; July 2010 issue – 15 May; October 2010 as president with a message titled I see a bright future for systems engineering and the poten- issue – 08 August ; December 2010 issue –15 October T For further information on submissions and issue themes, visit the “Doing Serious Work Together While Hav- tial for an equally bright future for INCOSE. Perhaps the only INCOSE Web site as listed above. ing Fun!” As I write my last “President’s troubling current that has rippled through the past twelve years Advertising in INSIGHT. Please see http://www.incose.org/Products Pubs/periodicals/insight.aspx — or e-mail [email protected]. Corner,” I have been thinking about what as I have served on the board of directors is the tension between Subscriptions to INSIGHT are available to INCOSE members as part makes INCOSE valuable to me and what my national and global concerns, particularly in the United States. of their membership. Complimentary copies are available on a limited basis. Back issues are available on the INCOSE Web site. To inquire hopes are for INCOSE and you, its members, in the future. For INCOSE has a destiny that is global, and will draw on the about membership or to order a copy, contact Member Services. the past twenty years, INCOSE has grown steadily in member- immense strength and resources of a global existence, pro- ©2009 Copyright Notice. Unless otherwise noted, the entire con tents are copyrighted by INCOSE and may not be reproduced in whole ship, influence, geographic presence, and domain scope. Our viding that we can establish a foundation that creates a level or in part without written permission by INCOSE. Permission is given for use of up to three paragraphs as long as full credit is provided. The profession has similarly increased in importance and impact, playing field for global collaboration. Yes, INCOSE began in the opinions expressed in INSIGHT are those of the authors and advertis- ers and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the editorial staff or until we stand on the threshold of a world so interconnected United States as NCOSE, and many of our senior members grew the International Council on Systems Engineering. that only systems thinking and the application of the methods from those roots, just as the systems-engineering profession, Who are we? INCOSE is a 7000+ member organization of systems engineers and others interested in systems engineering. Its purpose we know as good systems engineering can help us to forge while originally conceived in the telecommunications industry, is to foster the definition, understanding, and practice of world class durable solutions to world challenges. grew to its greatest strength in defense-and-aerospace-systems systems engineering in industry, government, and academia. INCOSE is com prised of chapters located in cities worldwide and is sponsored by A highlight of 2009 was the CNN Money Web site’s selec- development and operations. While we should remember those a corporate advisory board and led by elected officers, directors, and membership board. tion of the systems engineer as the number-one job in roots and be proud of them, the time has come to acknowledge 2009 INCOSE Board of Directors America, and, significantly, CNN asked INCOSE to recom- that we will achieve our greatest destiny only as a truly global President: Pat Hale, M.I.T. President-Elect: Samantha Brown, BAE Systems mend people who could represent the diverse jobs in today’s organization, pursuing our vision and mission as equal interna- Secretary: Bob Kenley, Kenley Consulting, LLC Treasurer: Ricardo Valerdi, M.I.T. systems-engineering marketplace. Many of you probably saw tional collaborators, and working to enable such collaboration Director for Leadership and Organizational Development: Bill Ewald, Macro the profile about our own Anne O’Neil of the New York City on a worldwide scale. Accordingly, at the final Board of Direc- International Director for Communications: Cecilia Haskins, Norwegian University of Science MTA, describing the challenges and satisfaction of her job as a tors meeting I presided over as president, the board unani- and Technology Director for International Growth: Tat Soon Yeo, Temasek Defence Systems chief systems engineer. It is a milestone to have CNN come to mously passed a resolution to “to conduct the due diligence Institute Director for Commercial Outreach: Henk van der Linden, SRON INCOSE and to highlight a job outside the defense and aero- necessary to (re)establish a U.S. national organization.” While Director for Strategy: Ralf Hartmann, EADS Astrium GmbH space domains. Defense is an important application space for it may not seem intuitive that a U.S. national organization is a Corporate Advisory Board Chair: Art Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology Member Board Chair: Jonette Stecklein, NASA systems engineering, but our profession’s influence has spread requirement for INCOSE to be truly global, I hope to convince Member Board Co-Chair: Richard Grzybowski, Corning Technical Director: Regina Griego, Sandia National Laboratory across many more domains of practice in the past decade, and you all that it is, for the following primary reasons: Managing Executive: Holly Witte, Universal Management Services, LLC the best practices we share have been put to use in products • INCOSE is currently established as a non-profit corporation 3 December 2009 | Volume 12 Issue 4 SpeciaL FeatURE in the state of California, which sometimes leads us to behave in a fashion that belies our international mission and goals, simply to comply with California corporate law. All of the other nations in INCOSE have formed national chapters under independent charters in order to comply with their legal and cultural frameworks and to serve both legitimate national considerations and globally shared concerns. • Non-North American chapters can and do invest their assets and efforts into products that serve national interests, as well as contributing to international products.
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