{"title":"Connecting Business Development and Systems Engineering with ISO/IEC 29110 Standard in Small and Medium Enterprises of France","authors":"S. Galinier, Claude Y. Laporte","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544393","url":null,"abstract":"As systems are getting larger, customers as well as systems integrators need to work with more performing and innovative small and medium-size suppliers. To stay in the game, these small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have to face new challenges in order to develop their strategic positioning. The authors propose that many of these business development challenges can be addressed by SMEs by using a Systems Engineering framework such as the ISO/IEC 29110. AFIS, the French Systems Engineering association (French INCOSE chapter), and French government funded a 24-month project where a team of 8 experts, members of the AFIS and INCOSE, helped 6 enterprises, located in the south of France, in implementing Systems Engineering processes, using the engineering and management processes of the ISO/IEC 29110 framework, and measured the effectiveness of their actions. The selected enterprises are operating in a wide range of domains such as automotive, space and agriculture, and their size ranges from 10 to 150 people. The lessons learned show how these processes helped the SMEs to understand the benefits of Systems Engineering for their business development, to embrace a bigger point of view and understand how their business environment changes. Finally, the authors show how close the profiles of business developer and systems engineer are, based on systems thinking abilities.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127516972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Framework for Descriptive Models Quality Assessment","authors":"Dominique Ernadote","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544381","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous systems engineering projects use descriptive models structured by standard metamodels such as SysML, UML, or NAF. Model-based systems engineering is now so well established in the world of systems engineering that there is no longer questions about the usefulness of such modeling activities. However, it is still difficult to determine what is the current level of quality and how far the models are from the expected project objectives. This paper proposes a framework which reduces the pain of elaborating a quality process aside of the main systems engineering tasks so that a project manager can quickly be aware of the modeling progress statuses. The proposed framework is based on a modeling method which is itself modeled so that to allow a predefined set of modeling artefacts self-learning the quality aspects, and generating the appropriate dashboards at different levels of details.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"2625 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123360049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Low Powered Wireless IoT Sensor Network based on MBSE","authors":"Jihad Taha, V. Salehi, Frank Abraham","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544420","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the trend in System Engineering (SE) is shifting more and more in the domains of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Internet of Things (IoT) and will reach new height in demand. The complexity of those systems which are fundamentally different from those of the last decades in their own areas and are furthermore growing. To fulfil all requirements in those fields, a wider range of functionalities and components are needed, especially for IoT systems. In the interdisciplinary development, many conflicts occur. Thus, the complexity of the product demands a change of the development process itself. Most approaches lack in aspects of transparency, traceability and continuous development in general. Therefore, a neutral systematic approach is needed, which model-based systems engineering (MBSE) could provide. This paper applied MBSE in the domain of IoT in WSN development. Although MBSE emerged from system engineering/development, it essentially allows any developer in any discipline to understand relations between different system components in the central system model. The stages of this research are not fully developed yet but a high potential is expected. This holistic central system model is described by MBSE with tool, modelling language and method. The most promising modelling language for an interdisciplinary work in a real industrial content is SysML, which will be applied throughout the modelling tool following the RFLP principle of the V-model. These endeavours will then represent our result to show a more transparent continuous traceable solution in comparison with the existing application.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130827783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technological and Complexity Risk Analysis For Set Based Design Evaluation","authors":"I.H. Arroyo, C. Fortin","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544382","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates an adaptation of a novel technology risk assessment method within standard Systems Engineering techniques. An evaluation of technological risk using Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) is adjusted to make use of N-squared diagrams to measure systems architecture complexity, and finally risk appetite matrices are proposed as an early selection methodology to screen high-risk design points and manage adequate responses. This adaptation can facilitate early conceptual design architecture objective analysis in complex systems, making the initiation in methodologies like Lean Development less challenging for novel users.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132800781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic Model Search for System Model Composition","authors":"Gauthier Fontaine, O. Hammami","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544449","url":null,"abstract":"System engineering architecture evaluation based on simulation can take full advantage of model composition. Model composition requires proper selection of the adequate model from a large set of existing models available to the system designer. This task can be tedious is done manually and affects system designer productivity. We propose in this paper an automatic model search for model composition in system engineering design and simulation flow.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133247324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimentable Digital Twins for a Modeling and Simulation-based Engineering Approach","authors":"Ulrich Dahmen, J. Rossmann","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544383","url":null,"abstract":"Technical systems become more and more complex, causing system design and realization, as well as the effective management of engineering processes from different domains to increasingly challenging tasks. For this reason a continuous need for sophisticated cross-domain methodologies in order to handle complexity and to create reliable systems persists. This paper introduces a systematic approach for a methodology that connects the worlds from different engineering domains leading to a modeling and simulation-based engineering concept. Central aspect of this concept is the consequent application of modeling and simulation techniques at each stage of the development process to support both, the design and verification process. The paper further presents a realization approach for a simulation framework based on Experimentable Digital Twins and Virtual Testbeds. To get an impression of the application of the introduced concepts a first case study from a space project is presented at the end of this paper.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116830194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Ahari, Jan Novacek, A. Viehl, O. Bringmann, W. Rosenstiel
{"title":"CTEF: Collaborative Technology Evaluation Framework","authors":"A. Ahari, Jan Novacek, A. Viehl, O. Bringmann, W. Rosenstiel","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544418","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of advanced semiconductor technologies in automotive electronics introduces new qualification challenges. In this paper, we propose a framework that provides an environment for all partners in the supply chain to collaborate in seamless assessment of a new technology during all development phases. The framework enables the assessment of system characteristics such as reliability and power without requiring any intellectual property exchange. The proposed methodology adapts the continuous change of internal models automatically, supply chains and parameter interdependencies during the different design phases. It also supports early decision-making throughout system planning and the identification of alternative suppliers. The framework’s applicability has been evaluated exemplary by assessing the reliability of an autonomous car. We show that the overall car reliability can be improved by up to 7.4% by selecting appropriate suppliers and technologies.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132734317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System Maintainability Improvement using Allocation Procedures","authors":"L. Ciani, G. Guidi, G. Patrizi, M. Venzi","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544443","url":null,"abstract":"System maintainability performance represents a key factor in many manufacturing fields and high maintainability become a fundamental requirement of most manufacturing products. The core of this paper is to outline a procedure for obtaining maintainability indicators: the objective is to analyse how these indicators achieve the best fitting and how they fulfil the technical information. This analysis is helpful for many purposes e.g. compare different system solutions, achieve a better maintainability performance, and predict maintainability problems. The first part of the paper focuses on maintainability allocation procedures and the core of this study are the time characteristic-based maintainability allocation models: these methods are divided between high-level and low-level product models. The second part shows a case study on a generic complex system containing redundant blocks in order to test and validate the proposed method in two different cases: case a) where the MTTR (i.e. Mean Time To Repair) target of the system can vary between 1 hour and 8 hours; case b) where the MTTR target is 6 hours.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125582275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electric Circuit- and Wiring Harness-Aware Behavioral Simulation of Model-Based E/E-Architectures at System Level","authors":"Harald Bucher, J. Becker","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544434","url":null,"abstract":"To cope with the rising complexity of automotive electric/electronic architectures (EEA), model-based development at system level is well-established and typically realized in architecture description languages (ADLs) and high-level tools. In this paper, we extend a previously developed approach for automated cross-domain simulation synthesis of model-based EEA descriptions enabling system-level evaluation by a behavioral specification layer. The key contributions of this work are modeling extensions applied to a state-of-the-art EEA ADL to refine specified behavior during synthesis with electric circuits including wiring harness details modeled at the hardware layer. Preliminary experiments show that the novel combination of quantization- and SPICE-based synthesized circuit simulation, conducted in a discrete-event manner and applied to a buck converter, a typical device in an automotive EEA, increases simulation efficiency up to a factor of 2.0 compared to other state-of-the-art tools while preserving accuracy. Finally, another example EEA hardware network, modeling the dynamic current consumption of an Electric Power Steering actuator, applied to a realistic vehicle topology model demonstrates the impact of wiring harness refinements.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124223003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Björn Sillmann, Kristina Gruber, Thomas Glock, E. Sax
{"title":"Multi-Objective Optimization of System of Systems Architectures for Vehicle to Infrastructure Applications using an Evolutionary Algorithm","authors":"Björn Sillmann, Kristina Gruber, Thomas Glock, E. Sax","doi":"10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSENG.2018.8544390","url":null,"abstract":"In future, Electric vehicles (EV) will play a key role for an affordable and sustainable mobility in urban areas. Today, Electric Vehicles are often associated with a limitation of the usual mobility. Original Equipment Manufacturers try to reduce the drawbacks and to generate added values by connecting EVs with other individual systems, like Household Components, Photovoltaic Systems, and Home Energy Storage Systems, which builds a connected Smart Home. This correspondents to the concepts of System of Systems (SoS) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) applications. Due to a high number of variants of constituent systems, the overall development of such connected systems gets a combinatorial optimization problem. Today’s engineering methods don’t address the challenges of finding the optimal SoS architecture. This paper presents a new engineering methodology for searching, assessing, and optimizing the SoS architecture for V2I applications. The new methodology is based on a Non-Dominating Sorting Genetic Algorithm II for an intelligent exploring of the trade space for finding optimal configurations of constituent systems and their interfaces. Therefore, a bitwise representation of SoS architectures is introduced. The methodology is validated at a real data set.","PeriodicalId":192753,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120926630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}