InsightPub Date : 2026-02-15DOI: 10.1002/inst.70033
Wouter Leibbrandt, Jacco Wesselius, Frans Beenker
{"title":"TNO-ESI – Systems Engineering Methodologies for Managing Complexity in the High-Tech Equipment Industry: Our Roadmap","authors":"Wouter Leibbrandt, Jacco Wesselius, Frans Beenker","doi":"10.1002/inst.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inst.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The high-tech equipment industry brings complex industrial products to the market with high speed, enhanced functionality, a better cost-performance ratio, and greater integration into customer workflows. Driven by digitalization, the complexity of these systems continues to grow steeply. To manage this complexity, continuous innovation in systems engineering methodologies is needed. TNO-ESI targets to 1) create impactful and industrially applicable systems engineering methodologies and 2) provide innovation support to the industry to get these applied in an industrial context. The ESI research program is defined through a roadmapping process that follows two tracks: a roadmap that maps industry needs and related research and development requirements and a roadmap that describes the developments in the expertise areas necessary for addressing these industry needs. In this paper, we describe the ESI mission, our way of working and activities, and explain the roadmapping process and the roadmaps.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"29 1","pages":"41-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146217254","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 : 2026-02-15DOI: 10.1002/inst.70037
Laurent Alt, Mikaël Le Mouëlli
{"title":"How Large Scale Agile Can Operate Systems Engineering in the Future","authors":"Laurent Alt, Mikaël Le Mouëlli","doi":"10.1002/inst.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inst.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The significant shift happening today towards more connected, more automated, and more autonomous systems is bringing software inside all systems, and at the same time agile practices. Our experience of large-scale agile deployments in companies building or operating complex systems in automotive and aerospace shows that, whereas both approaches can easily coexist in isolated teams within the same company, major problems arise when coordinating them at the leadership level, where they are perceived as antagonist, and create misalignments, friction and quality issues. In this article, we propose to describe why it is important to make agile and systems engineering work together, how to do it, and how this impacts how we see value, systems, digital twins, and leadership. The following concepts of the FuSE agile roadmaps are addressed:</p>\u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ Agility with long lead time components and dependencies</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ Agility across organizations boundaries</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>▪ Orchestrating agile operations.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"29 1","pages":"53-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680431","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 : 2026-02-15DOI: 10.1002/inst.70038
Roar E. Georgsen, Geir M. Køien
{"title":"Very Small Entities (VSEs): Outsourcing Risk to the Supply Chain Is Placing Systems Security Engineering on a Clay Foundation, but Playing Games May Help","authors":"Roar E. Georgsen, Geir M. Køien","doi":"10.1002/inst.70038","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inst.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article addresses the inherent risk in a supply chain that comprises primarily Very Small Entities (VSE) with little to no security proficiency and limited resources and incentive to prioritize system security. In a globalized economy based on outsourcing and risk-sharing, most engineering activities occur in the smallest companies, even for large and complex projects. The Future of Systems Engineering initiative (FuSE) appropriately has agility at the core of its Systems Security Engineering (SSE) foundation concepts, and VSEs are by their very nature agile. However, the line between agility and chaos may be thin, and engineers at VSEs must often accept a level of restraint and rigidity beyond their comfort level to achieve functional agility. The primary challenge in VSEs is adding structure without the necessary resources to enforce compliance manually. We propose that VSE focus their initial efforts on FuSE SSE Foundation Concepts that play into their nature and strengths as dynamic human social activity systems. Improvements in security proficiency and stakeholder alignment do not necessarily require much formal structure, and digital tools combined with social strategies can add structure to a resource-constrained environment. Games can be excellent low-cost tools to provide structure while minimizing resistance, and Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering (AMBSE) using digital models can support automated enforcement. Here we use the card game <i>Elevation of Privilege</i> (EoP) as an example. Within the context of a SysML Threat Model integrated into a larger System Model, players naturally treat security requirements as traceable functional requirements. Automated model validation, re-usable components and patterns enforce a Zero-Trust architecture, a sufficiently formal trust model to provide evidence-based assurance, yet achievable for small companies with limited resources.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"29 1","pages":"19-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680545","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 : 2026-02-15DOI: 10.1002/inst.70035
Alan Harding
{"title":"Systems Skills … From Here to Diversity","authors":"Alan Harding","doi":"10.1002/inst.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inst.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Competency, the ability to do things, is at the heart of how systems engineers realise successful systems. Over the years INCOSE and partners have codified what this means, initially in the INCOSE UK Competency Framework (INCOSE UK 2010) later adopted globally by INCOSE and used as the basis of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Competency Framework (INCOSE 2018) which, notably, included a new area of professional skills. This article considers competency from the perspective of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (referred to as DEI) using a variety of sources including the recently published INCOSE SE Vision 2035 (INCOSE 2022) and a variety of competency frameworks to offer a view of how the skills and competencies of systems engineers need to evolve in the future. Five new competencies are proposed, as are opportunities to improve the definitions of five more.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"29 1","pages":"33-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146224440","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 : 2026-02-15DOI: 10.1002/inst.70032
Domenik Helms, Patrick Uven, Kim Grüttner
{"title":"Modular Over-the-air Software Updates for Safety-critical Real-time Systems","authors":"Domenik Helms, Patrick Uven, Kim Grüttner","doi":"10.1002/inst.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inst.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Automotive software is undergoing a rapid change toward artificial intelligence and towards more and more connectedness with other systems. For both, an incremental design paradigm is desired, where the car's software is frequently updated after production but still can guarantee the highest automotive safety standards. We present a design flow and tool framework enabling a DevOps paradigm for automotive software development. DevOps means that software is developed in a continuous loop of development, deployment, usage in the field, collection of runtime data and feedback to the developers for the next design iteration. The software developers get support in defining, developing, and verifying new software functions based on the data gathered in the field by the previous software generation. The software developers can define contracts describing the time and resource assumptions on the integration environment and guarantees for other dependent software components in the system. These contracts allow a composition of software components and proof obligations to be discharged at design time through virtual integration testing and runtime through continuous monitoring of assumptions and guarantees on the software component's interfaces. An update package, consisting of the software component and its contracts, is then automatically created, transferred over the air, and deployed in the car. Monitors derived from the contracts allow for supervising the system's behavior, detecting failures at runtime, and annotating the situation to be included in a data collection, fueling the next design iteration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"29 1","pages":"49-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147275025","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 : 2025-12-11DOI: 10.1002/inst.70022
Rindra Mbolamananamalala, Souad Rabah Chaniour, Vincent Chapurlat
{"title":"Proposal of a Model- and Pattern-Based Method for the Engineering of a Digital Twin System","authors":"Rindra Mbolamananamalala, Souad Rabah Chaniour, Vincent Chapurlat","doi":"10.1002/inst.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1002/inst.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The engineering and maintenance in operational conditions (MOC) of a digital twin system (DTS) remains today a difficult, time-consuming, costly and resource-intensive task. This paper proposes a method to support the stakeholders involved in such activity. It combines the principles and processes of model-based systems and software engineering (MBSSE), is inspired by the pattern-based systems engineering (PBSE) approach and is in line with the recent norms and standardization. An application on a real use case of the method is presented to illustrate the practical benefits of this contribution.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13956,"journal":{"name":"Insight","volume":"28 6","pages":"29-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730449","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}