Webinar 122 – Encouraging Broader Engagement and Collaboration across the Enterprise using MBSE Tools

As model-based methodologies and the tools to support the systems engineeringfunction are becoming mandatory in engineering projects, team managers arechallenged with encouraging all stakeholders to share information and decisionsfrom their own activities through the systems model as the “single source of truth”.Traditionally, this would be achieved by either forcing all stakeholders to learn touse the same tools as the systems engineers, or transfer the information throughdocuments, spreadsheets, emails, and frequent design review meetings. Eitherapproach introduces significant risk and can lead to missing or erroneous data,causing problems later in the process that can be extremely costly and disruptiveto the project.In this webinar, attendees will hear from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)about a recent pilot project that introduced ways to broaden engagement with theirSE practices using MapleMBSE, a tool that uses Excel as the user interface.MapleMBSE provides a technology that generates task-specific views into thesystem model, serving up the relevant information in tabular or matrix forms thatcan be directly edited, all with a live connection to the systems model.