Fact Sheet: Systems Modeling Language (SysML)

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Software Vendors

• Modeling methodologies (Harmony-SE, OOSEM, SysMOD, FAS-Method…)
• Many web information resources, e.g.
  • OMG SysML Knowledge Base
  • SE Body of Knowledge

Industry Users

• Use Cases
• Guidelines
• Best Practice Examples
• Literature (Books, Scientific Papers)
• Best Practices

What is the contribution of especially this format/ standard to Systems Engineering and/ or Collaboration:

• Simplify the model creation with SysML as a basis for visualization, complexity management and better handling of product views due to the product life cycle.
• One industry-wide SysML profile to address many areas of common interest such as Automotive Regulatory Requirement & Verifications, Automotive Structures, Automotive Feature definitions, Risk Management (-FMEA, Functional Safety, Fault Tree analysis), integrated Dynamical Analysis and Optimization, ALM and PLM Integration
• The Automotive Domain is witnessing rising SysML and MBSE adoption to cope with the pace of change-especially with Mechatronics seemingly entering every feature of the automobile.
• An Automotive SysML profile accepted by the industry is not known to exist
• If collaboration is not enabled, practitioners within the domain will create adhoc profile extensions and fragment the space.
• Competing profiles that conflict within the same domain are a failure mode that will impede accelerated adoption of SE in general.
• SE practitioners in a particular domain do become more efficient by extending the base SysML standard to meet their needs

What happens if we do nothing

• Software vendor solutions that will lock Auto OEMs into proprietary products not based on standards.
• Major and lower tier suppliers unable to support diverging OEM proprietary standards without adding significant time and cost which eventually gets shared with the OEMs.
• Supplier requirements not consideredà no collaboration possible