Tool Integration and Model Lifecycle Management

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.

Transformation Enablers

TechOps Domain

526 Working Group Members

153 Viva Engage

(Yammer) Members

53 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

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.
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.
PDES/LOTAR/TIMLM meetings are held weekly every Wednesday from 08:30 to 10:00 AM (Central Time USA).
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.
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.
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.

MBSE Interoperability Forum

The 1st Qrtr PDES/LOTAR/INCOSE MBSE-IF is being held Monday March 11 - Wednesday March 13th in Darmstadt, Germany. It is is a continuation of the MBSE Interoperability Forum held at IW 2024 on January 28th and Monday January 29th.

Topics of the presentations and discussions on March 12 include:

INCOSE IW 2024 outcome,
MBSE-IF update.
2024 Prototype, Develop IF Use Cases (Composites, CAD, Elec)
OMG RFP endeavor for a MBSE collaboration standard based on a DDP and SpecIF concepts.
INCOSE GfSE workshop update & discussion.
DDP ProSTEP IViP project update and discussion.
MBSE-IF / SE-IF update & discussion, for git.pdes-ch.org
Collaborating with AFNeT SE-IF,
collective Use Cases for MBSE-IF/PDM-IF presentation,
best practices and alignment with MBSE IF
A&D PLM Action Group MBSE interoperability presentation

The March 13 presentations, working sessions and discussions include:

UC3M - Results dissemination & 2024 work statement for prototyping
Engineering Analysis and Simulation WG overlaps, NAS 9300 P520 vs P600.
LOTAR Leadership Workshop Report-out working session.
Working session: final NAS 9300 P500 changes and feedback responses
Model Based Acquisition metamodel and OMG process.
Use of MoSSEC, and LOTAR P5XX for Model Based Acquisition.
*Review P500 for adequate requirements suitable for DoD Contracts
DEIX WG- TIMLM WG INCOSE integration

These sessions begin at 02:00 AM EST on both days. Zoom links are available on our Viva Engage site. There is no charge for attending and participating.

Planned Activities

Continue working with PDES and LOTAR to author the NAS 9300 series MBSE data standards to meet the needs of our digital transformation.
Continue weekly collaboration meetings.
Conduct Quarterly INCOSE/LOTAR/PDES Workshops in 2024
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!