{"title":"Towards an Approach to Co-Execute System Models at the Enterprise Level","authors":"Jovita Bankauskaite, Zilvinas Strolia, Aurelijus Morkevicius","doi":"10.1002/inst.12472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12472","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, and large-scale system-to-system interactions are driving digital transformation in the industry. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is one of the core paradigms behind this transformation. MBSE practices are widely applied to enterprise (including system of systems and mission) architectures, which become a crucial part of successful digital transformation. The core challenge today is not only how digital continuity can be maintained by connecting different layers of models (such as system models to system-of-systems models), but also how to perform detailed analysis and simulation at the enterprise level model. This paper studies Systems Modeling Language (SysML®) as the standard language to model systems, Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) as the framework, Unified Architecture Framework Modeling Language (UAFML) as the language to model enterprise architectures and proposes an approach for end-to-end co-execution of the integrated enterprise model.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 1","pages":"18-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140042992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1002/inst.12475
Nils Kuelper, Thimo Bielsky, Jasmin Broehan, Frank Thielecke
{"title":"Model-Based Framework for Data and Knowledge-Driven Systems Architecting Demonstrated on a Hydrogen-Powered Concept Aircraft","authors":"Nils Kuelper, Thimo Bielsky, Jasmin Broehan, Frank Thielecke","doi":"10.1002/inst.12475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12475","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Aircraft development is a protracted process over many years. Novel concept aircraft with new energy sources and disruptive systems technologies are investigated during the aircraft conceptual design phase with the goal to achieve sustainable aviation. Current development cycles need to be accelerated to reduce time to market and development costs of novel aircraft, while still handling complexity and uncertainty of systems technologies. Therefore, a holistic framework for knowledgebased systems architecting using a model-based systems engineering approach is presented. This framework has the purpose to conserve and provide knowledge, that is, information, data, and experiences about existing systems architectures, to the engineer. The developed framework consists of a database concept, a method for model-based systems architecting, and an interface to the overall systems design software tool <i>GeneSys</i>. Based on evaluating different modeling languages and tools, <i>MathWorks System Composer</i> is selected as most suitable tool for knowledge-based systems architecting. The developed framework is then demonstrated by conserving and reusing formalized knowledge for the design of a novel hydrogen-powered concept aircraft. On-board systems architecture models are saved in a database and automatically recreated reducing development time. The complete graphical representation could not yet be stored in a formalized manner partly reducing the advantage of a clear representation of model-based systems architecting. However, this did not reduce automatic recreation and evaluation capabilities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 1","pages":"47-60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140042964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1002/inst.12477
Rae Lewark, Allison Lyle, Kristina Carroll, Casey Medina
{"title":"Think Like an Ecosystem: Transitioning Waste Streams to Value Streams","authors":"Rae Lewark, Allison Lyle, Kristina Carroll, Casey Medina","doi":"10.1002/inst.12477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12477","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>To meet the material demands of the future, transitioning waste streams to value streams is a vital step in ecological and economic sustainability. Linear production design disposes of resources before their optimal value have been realized and loses recyclable resources to waste streams. The economic infrastructure of the planet needs to be reimagined to meet human and ecological needs. The development and implementation of circular systems is key to the creation of sustainable global production. Through the analysis of the copper used in medical devices, we illustrate considerations systems engineers can take to close the waste-resource gap. Developing wasteless design mimics the resiliency seen in ecosystems and accelerates the evolution of the global economy to meet the needs of companies, the environment, and humankind.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 1","pages":"75-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140042966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1002/inst.12473
Aaron I. Rabinowitz, John G. Smart, Timothy C. Coburn, Thomas H. Bradley
{"title":"A Geo-Spatial Method for Calculating BEV Charging Inconvenience using Publicly Available Data","authors":"Aaron I. Rabinowitz, John G. Smart, Timothy C. Coburn, Thomas H. Bradley","doi":"10.1002/inst.12473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12473","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As governments and the automotive industry push towards electrification, it becomes increasingly critical to address the factors which influence individual car buying decisions. Evidence suggests that operational inconvenience or the perception thereof plays a large role in consumer decisions concerning battery electric vehicles (BEVs). BEV ownership inconvenience and its causal factors have been relatively understudied, rendering efforts to mitigate the issues insufficiently informed. This paper presents a method of producing an empirical equation which relates operational inconvenience to a small number of housing and local electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) infrastructure factors. The paper then further provides a method of applying the equation in a geo-spatial context allowing for the evaluation of the effects of policies in a geographical manner. this method enables future quantitative analyses concerning investment in EVSE infrastructure to be directly sensitive to BEV operational inconvenience due to charging.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 1","pages":"27-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140042993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1002/inst.12471
Charles B. Keating, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Joseph M. Bradley, Richard Hodge, James C. Pyne
{"title":"Sustainability: A Complex System Governance Perspective","authors":"Charles B. Keating, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Joseph M. Bradley, Richard Hodge, James C. Pyne","doi":"10.1002/inst.12471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12471","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper explores the sustainability field from a complex system governance (CSG) perspective. In general, sustainability suggests maintenance at a specific rate or level. It is also frequently held as maintaining ecological balance to negate the depletion of natural resources. CSG offers sustainability a theoretically grounded, model based, and methodologically sound approach to better inform sustainability design, execution, and development for complex systems. CSG examines sustainability as an outcome-based product resulting from effective governance of an underlying system which produces sustainability. Thus, sustainability is proposed as a ‘systems engineered product’, whose design, execution, and development will be favored by CSG systems engineering. Following an introduction, two primary objectives are pursued. First, systems theory is used to provide an alternative view of sustainability. Second, a perspective of sustainability is developed through the paradigm of the emerging CSG field. The paper closes with the contributions, opportunities, and challenges for deployment of CSG for enhanced development, transition, and maintenance of sustainable systems.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 1","pages":"8-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140042991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1002/inst.12476
Sunkil Yun, Shashank Alai, Yongdae Kim, Tae Kook Kim, Jaehun Jo, Dahyeon Lee, Lokesh Gorantla, Michael Baloh
{"title":"Applying a System of Systems Perspective to Hyundai-Kia's Virtual Tire Development","authors":"Sunkil Yun, Shashank Alai, Yongdae Kim, Tae Kook Kim, Jaehun Jo, Dahyeon Lee, Lokesh Gorantla, Michael Baloh","doi":"10.1002/inst.12476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12476","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Systems engineering has become important in almost every complex product manufacturing industry, especially automotive. Emerging trends like vehicle electrification and autonomous driving now pose a system of systems (SoS) engineering challenge to automotive OEMs. This paper presents a proof-of-concept (PoC) that applies a top-down SoS perspective to Hyundai-Kia Motor Corporation's (HKMC) virtual product development process to develop a performance-critical component of the vehicle, the tire. The PoC demonstrates using the Arcadia MBSE method to develop a consistent, layered, vehicle architecture model starting from the SoS operational context down to the lowest level of system decomposition in the physical architecture thereby capturing top-down knowledge traceability Using the concept of functional chains, several vehicle performance views are captured that serve as the basis for architecture verification orchestration across engineering domains using a cross-domain orchestration platform thereby validating key vehicle/tire performance metrics that influence the tire design parameters. Preliminary results of the study show that applying a method-based modeling approach could provide several benefits to HKMC's current product development approach such as reduced time to model, SoS knowledge capture and reusability, parameter/requirement traceability, early performance verification, and effective systems engineering collaboration between the OEM, tire design supplier, and tire manufacturers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"27 1","pages":"61-74"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140042965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-12-30DOI: 10.1002/inst.12461
Christophe Alix, Jean-Luc Garnier, Mikael Le Mouëllic, Laurent Alt, Rob Vingerhoed, Mickaël Bouyaud
{"title":"AFIS Report on Challenges for the Near Future","authors":"Christophe Alix, Jean-Luc Garnier, Mikael Le Mouëllic, Laurent Alt, Rob Vingerhoed, Mickaël Bouyaud","doi":"10.1002/inst.12461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12461","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Systems engineering shall adapt itself with the changes of the world. System engineering communities like (AFIS 2022) and (INCOSE 2021) have been developing their visions with the identification of needs that systems engineering shall integrate to address new challenges. The systems engineering discipline shall be now considered at the enterprise level and be included in the governance of the project. Systems engineering and system thinking shall be deployed on all layers of the organization and horizontally to ensure the consistency the definition, production, and all phases of the lifecycle of the system within all involved organizations. The future is paved with unknowns. Systems engineering can integrate new methodologies, new posture to complete its analytical based tools to better face new kinds of complexity. These new challenges are often due to the reallocation of functions and responsibilities between human and machine in the context of autonomous systems. These collaborative socio-technical systems induce new questions for systems engineering which needs to integrate new domain of skills and interacts with new disciplines from the soft sciences.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 4","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InsightPub Date : 2023-12-30DOI: 10.1002/inst.12465
Romain Delabeye, Olivia Penas, Régis Plateaux
{"title":"WONKA: An Ontology-Aided Model-Based Systems Engineering Analysis for Early V&V on Heterogeneous Systems and Applications","authors":"Romain Delabeye, Olivia Penas, Régis Plateaux","doi":"10.1002/inst.12465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.12465","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This research is undertaken as part of the EU-funded EnerMan project aiming at improving the energy sustainability of manufacturing systems. In such a large project, with 22 partners over 10 countries, a first challenge addresses the collaborative design of an energy management system (EnMS) for the improvement of energy sustainability, while offering the flexibility and agility necessary for the diversity of the industrial cases studied and the partners involved. In a second stage, industrial use cases are generally too constrained to easily proceed to the verification and validation (V&V) of the scientific approaches tackling their challenges. In this context, our research contributions consist of methodologies and automated approaches to: (i) ensure the consistent collaborative integrability of developments, in a sustainable manufacturing context, and (ii) perform the verification and validation of such contributions on multiple systems, assessing their scalability on heterogeneous systems, environments, and missions in a V&V context.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"26 4","pages":"22-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}