Tool Integration & Model Lifecycle Management Working Group

Provides a forum for discussion of best practices, methods and processes that promote the development, validation and deployment of standards to advance data exchange capability of digital data created during a product development lifecycle.

Working Group Purpose & Mission

Mission:

The Tool Integration and Model Lifecyle Management WG provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of best practices, methods and processes that promote the development, the validation and the deployment of standards to advance the exchange of digital data between MBSE tools and toolsets.
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TechOps Domain

174

Members

1996

Established

Chair

John Nallon

Co-Chairs

Mark Williams

Gregory Pollari

TIMLMWG@incose.net

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Scope

The TIMLM WG is focused on the integration and interoperability of tools, data, models and processes as they relate to Systems Engineering processes and methods throughout the acquisition and product development life cycles. The TIMLM maintains collaboration with PDES Inc., ISO and STEP standards organizations, the INCOSE Standards Development Department and other INCOSE Working Groups as required to support standards that improve the exchange, archival and retrieval of digital artifacts produced by our systems engineering processes.

Goals

  • To provide the systems engineering community a reliable source of information about tool data exchange standards used while executing their business processes in the product lifecycle.
  • To collaborate with data exchange standards organizations and other supporting INCOSE Working Groups to characterize systems engineering tool integration and interoperability requirements for tools and data standards for the exchange of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) digital artifacts.
  • To promote the development, validation and deployment of standards that advance the interoperability, storage, archival and retrieval of digital data and artifacts produced by systems engineering processes.
  • To provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of information regarding tool integration, data exchange processes, use cases applying standards and the data exchange accomplishments of in our engineering community

Activities and Coming Events

  1. Four PDES MBSE and LOTAR MBSE Workshops were conducted in 2022 covering NAS 9300 Part 500 documentation product development, Boeing - MIC to AP243 Mapping, Data Exchange Solutions, Modelica, FMI and SSP for LOTAR models, SysMl v2 review (Friedenthal); using AP243 (MoSSEC), example of archiving models (LOTAR). Notes and summaries available on request.
  2. The next MBSE for PDES and LOTAR Workshop is being held in Toulouse, France March 21-22. Virtual meetings will be available from 7-9 AM PDT.  Stay tuned to our Yammer site for details.
  3. PDES/LOTAR/TIMLM meetings are held weekly every Wednesday from 08:30 to 10:00 AM (Central Time USA).
  4. ISO-10303-AP243 (MoSSEC) has been approved by ISO and released to the public. PDES/INCOSE/LOTAR has embraced this standard for model exchange and is updating all specifications and standards. 
  5. The Model Portfolio Management Guideline has been submitted for publication as a working group and INCOSE product. 
  6. MoSSEC Sessions are being planned for the MBSE Lightening Round at IS 2023 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

IW23: International Workshop Focus

At IW 2023 we conducted all-day MoSSEC Workshop on Monday January 30. The main sessions were presentation sby four tool vendors that are implementing MoSSEC data exchange portals. In additiona several open discussions on the MoSSEC standard impact to tools and processes, interaction with other standards and potential use cases were conducted with the virtual and attendending audience.

Topics included:

  • An introduction to MoSSEC
  • Siemens Digital Systems interactive presentation and demonstration of their MoSSEC implementation
  • Interactive presentation and demonstration by Modelon Inc.
  • Presentation on APROCONE WoW by Hexagon
  • Presentation by The REUSE Company implementation using their SES Systems Engineering Suite with a MoSSEC Connector
  • Discussions and whiteboarding about MoSSEC, Ontologies, OSLC and the interconnection of other standards
  • MoSSEC Implementation Forum Planning

MoSSEC: Modelling and Simulation information in a Collaborative Systems Engineering Context

Planned Activities

  1. Publish the Model Portfolio Management Guide for INCOSE publication.
  2. Continue working with PDES and LOTAR to modernize data standards to meet the needs of MBSE.
  3. Continue weekly collaboration meetings.
  4. Continue supporting quarterly PDES/LOTAR workshops.
  5. Support the ISO-IECJTC1-SC7_N8226_ISOIEC_CD_24641: Methods and Tools for Model Based Systems and Software Engineering reviews and comments towards a final ballot and signature for release.
  6. Support for the emerging MoSSEC implementation and User forums

Planned Work Products

  • INCOSE Model Portfolio Management Guide
  • NAS9300 - 500 series MBSE based LOTAR standards release
Find out more by visiting the  TIMLM Working Group Yammer community today!