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.
MOSSEC

Transformation Enablers

TechOps Domain

526 Working Group Members

149 Viva Engage

(Yammer) Members

52 MBSE for PDES/LOTAR Viva Engage Members

Established in 1996

Chair

John Nallon

Co-Chairs

Mark Williams

Juan Mendo

Got a Question? Contact us at TIMLMWG@incose.net

Scope

The TIMLM WG is focused on the interoperability of tools, data, models and processes as they relate to a Systems Engineering process and methods throughout the acquisition and product development life cycles. The TIMLM collaborates with standards organizations such as PDES Inc., LOTAR, other STEP organizations and the INCOSE Standards Development Department to advance the data exchange standards to meet our stakeholders needs.

Goals

  • To provide the systems engineering community a reliable source of information about tool data exchange standards used during the execution of 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 interoperability, data exchange, use cases for applying  data exchange and interoperability standards and discussing interoperability accomplishments of in our systems engineering community

Activities and Coming Events

  1. Four PDES MBSE and LOTAR MBSE Workshops were conducted in 2023 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), examples of archiving models (LOTAR). Notes and summaries available on request and on our Viva Exchange site.
  2. The next Quarterly MBSE for PDES and LOTAR Workshop is being held in the First Quarter of 2024 in early March. Virtual meetings will be available.  Check our Viva Engage 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 accordingly.
  5. A pre-submittal review of the NAS9300-500 LOTAR for MBSE standard is in review and expected to be submitted for approval in March 2024.
  6. The Model Portfolio Management Guideline has been published as an INCOSE product and is available in the INCOSE Store for downloading. It is free to INCOSE Members.

IW24: International Workshop

At IW 2024 we held our first MBSE Interoperability Forum on Sunday January 28th and Monday January 29th.

The sessions introduced several published papers, tools and in-work standards that enable collaborative Model Based     Systems Engineering practices across Extended Enterprise environments.

Those in attendance participated in 12 presentations and open discussion sessions and 3 Working group collaboration sessions with the DEIX and SMS Working Groups and AFNET.

The sessions included: Mossec* (ISO 10303-AP243), Lotar for MBSE (NAS 9300-500), eFMI, Linking Requirements to FMUs, Traceability using TraceLynx, MBSE PLM Data Interoperability (CIMdata) and the OMG Systems Engingeering Interoperability Forum (SE-IF) to name a few.

 The presentations have been posted to our Yammer site and they were uploaded to the INCOSE IW 2024 platform where they will be available until March 1, 2024 for downloading.

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

Planned Activities

  1. Continue working with PDES and LOTAR to author the NAS 9300 series MBSE data standards to meet the needs of our digital transformation.
  2. Continue weekly collaboration meetings.
  3. Conduct Quarterly INCOSE/LOTAR/PDES Workshops in 2024
  4. Support for the emerging MoSSEC implementation and MBSE Interoperability forums

Planned Work Products

  • INCOSE Model Portfolio Management Guide Model
  • NAS9300 - 500 series MBSE based LOTAR standard.
  • Quarterly virtual workshops and 2 PDES/LOTAR in person workshops.
  • Weekly collaboration meetings with PDES Inc, LOTAR and INCOSE Working Groups
Find out more by visiting the  TIMLM Working Group Yammer community today!
 
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