Architecture and design definition processes: Return of experiment about complementary MBSE tools to model consistent architecture layers and to support design trade-offs through a set based concurrent engineering approach

摘要

In today's world, one current market trend tends to satisfy customers every day with better and cheaper products. This never-ending challenging contest pushes suppliers hard to find innovative solutions in order to keep one piece of the cake. As architecture and design translate requirements to form, mastering efficiently those two definition processes is critical to be able to stay in the race. What challenges design offices are facing today? How to define solutions that can satisfy all the system stakeholders? Which one would be the best? Based on an industrial case study, the purpose of this paper is to show how an integrated team of systems engineers went through system architecture and design, supported by two complementary MBSE tools.