IncQuery Group's presentation for the INCOSE Polish Chapter 20220310
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The document discusses the challenges in systems engineering, particularly focusing on the concept of the digital thread and how disconnected silos hinder effective model-based systems engineering (MBSE). It introduces the Incquery Suite, a set of tools designed to enhance traceability, validate model quality, and integrate engineering processes across various platforms, thereby addressing issues of completeness, correctness, and consistency. The document also highlights its application at organizations like NASA JPL to improve collaboration and efficiency in complex engineering projects.
IncQuery Group's presentation for the INCOSE Polish Chapter 20220310
- 1. The Genesis of Holistic Systems Engineering: Completeness and Consistency Management of the Digital Thread istvan.rath@incquerylabs.com István Ráth, CEO peter.lunk@incquerylabs.com Péter Lunk, Solutions Manager Dallas, TX, USA Vienna, Austria Budapest, Hungary
- 2. The IncQuery Group is an international team of engineering experts with a strong research and development background. We support systems engineers in several industries to create tailormade solutions. Automotive professionals, aircraft engineers, space engineers all trust us to make their systems work exceptionally, safer, faster, and more reliable. Who We Are
- 3. Global Partner Network Demonstrated history of successful collaboration with leading international organizations
- 4. Services Special software solutions for systems engineers. Our unique approach to engineering services is focused on your goals – be it consultancy for challenging R&D projects, customizing, tailoring, or integrating your toolchains so you can work better, or developing custom software from scratch, according to your specifications. Whether you need consultants, developers, analysts, researchers, solution teams or team leads, we work in many flexible ways to find the best setup for your business. Let us help your team achieve more Consultancy Customization Integration Development
- 5. The promised benefits of MBSE • Improved communication • Fewer defects / higher quality • To improve not just quality of SE, but the overall quality and value of engineering across the organization • Systems architecture as the “single source of truth” • Silos remain disconnected even though the goal of MBSE is to connect silos • Closed product ecosystems • Lack of good APIs and interchange formats The MBSE Value Chain is broken No global consistency Difficult customization Data lock-in Vendor lock-in
- 6. Digital Threads - The impact of disconnected silos Systems Engineering remains an isolated discipline – One of many silos next to mechanical, electrical, ALM/PLM, … As disconnected silos, what is the interface between architecture and disciplines? – It is often a document produced from an MBSE tool – Consequence: data reentry and/or copy-paste – No guarantee of completeness, correctness and consistency A lot of time and money is wasted! 9
- 7. Example: requirements to system design Requirements to System Design V-Model
- 8. Example toolchain • Overall documentation • Review reports • Requirements • Tasks • Systems design in SysML • Collaboration on SysML models • Published SysML models
- 9. The 3C Challenge: Building High Quality Model of Models • Scenario: –How to maintain the digital thread across JIRA and SysML? –The “3C Challenge”: correctness, completeness, consistency • Do I have all requirements mapped into SysML? • Are all requirements mapped to proper SysML elements? • Is the rest of the SysML model properly traced to these requirements? • Our take: no need for external tools for creating links –Use the tool of your choice to create engineering data –Use the tool of your choice to create links • As references in JIRA • Or as property values in MagicDraw
- 10. What causes 3C problems? • Input error • Forgetting/missing something • Copy/paste error • Incorrect mappings • Roundtripping gone bad • Change
- 11. Our take Light-weight approaches to create the digital thread Overlaid layer of digital thread analytics that can expose parts of the digital thread depending on the need/use-case Vendor-neutral federated toolchain
- 12. • Efficiently extract your engineering data from proprietary silos IncQuery Suite Change the way you do MBSE! • Set up detailed validation reports and analysis dashboards, and automated workflows by web-based interfaces that integrate seamlessly with modern tools • Create a unified, searchable, and analyzable representation of your complete digital thread
- 13. • Automatically validates your SysML or other engineering projects, using standard rule sets (e.g., OMG UML, SysML, UPDM, UAF, or others), or custom-built rules • Efficiently extracts your engineering data from open/ proprietary tools and repositories • Searches, queries, and analyzes your complete digital thread • Empowers the creation of in-depth, interactive, visual documents and dashboards by the incorporated Jupyter open-source ecosystem Validation Workflows and Reports Interactive Analysis Dashboard Engineering Data Queries Tool Integration Platform • Builds continuous integration/validation workflows, enabling the next generation DevOps for MBSE • Unique insight into your digital thread • Maintains a uniform, easily accessible, structured knowledge graph • Uses powerful graph query languages such as VQL, SPARQL • Uses ElasticSearch full- text search • Provides automated and customizable bridge components to perform information flow between tools
- 14. The IncQuery Suite Connects to:
- 15. INCQUERY MODEL VIEWER An easy-to-use web application to visualize and browse your projects in a structured and collaboration-focused way. INCQUERY DESKTOP A powerful add-on to SysML tools that lets you execute model queries and validation rules locally. INCQUERY SERVER An enterprise-class, scalable application that extracts data from silos and maintains the knowledge graph. INCQUERY INTEGRATOR DevOps-ready stand-alone applications to facilitate automated information sharing between engineering tools, with full traceability. INCQUERY VALIDATOR DevOps-ready stand-alone applications that provide automated model quality reports, based on standard and custom rules. INCQUERY ANALYZER A web-based workbench incorporating the powerful Jupyter ecosystem to validate and analyze your complete digital thread.
- 16. • Core of the IncQuery Suite • Connects to engineering repositories • Extracts data and converting it into a knowledge graph that can be easily accessed and processed further Powerful Queries at Your Fingertips An enterprise-class application that enables querying, analyzing and visualizing data in several ways
- 17. • Easily access all versions of all the projects • View structure and contents independently of the limitations of the original tool • Open several revisions at once, or review automatically generated changelogs • Easy-to-use web application to visualize and browse your projects • Browses your engineering data as captured in the knowledge graph at a fine-grained level • All your projects are reachable with just a few clicks • No need for third party software and client installations
- 18. IncQuery Model Validator provides seamless integration of model quality gates to your systems engineering process through a predefined set of validation rules as well as a means of customization for your own validation use-cases. The validator can be deployed as a standalone application, directly integrated into your favorite DevOps pipeline like Jenkins, TeamCity, etc. • SysML for MagicDraw/Cameo/Teamwork Cloud • 116 validation rules: OMG SysML 1.x Standard constraints + SAIC, UPDM, UAF • Enterprise Architect • Simple UML conformance checks to make sure your EA project is error-free • Advanced conformance checks for any UML profile; in particular, SysML • AUTOSAR • AUTOSAR Standard 4.3.1 revision constraints • Software Component template • ECU-C description template • Easy customization and extensibility • Create your own custom rules • We can support you in migrating your legacy rules (e.g., OCL, structured expression, Python) into the Validator Rulesets
- 19. • Integrated with • the popular Jupyter ecosystem through open-source Python libraries and the OpenAPI interface • documentation management systems such as the OpenMBEE View Editor or Atlassian Confluence • Easy-to-use analyst workbench to manage automated validation and analysis reports • Supports standards such as SysML, UPDM, UAF • as well as open-source libraries (SAIC Digital Engineering Validation Tool) • Custom rules can be defined by queries (e.g. SPARQL, ElasticSearch) • E.g. GENESYS.E3 naming consistency rule ààà
- 20. Toolchain • Overall documentation • Review reports • Requirements • Tasks • Systems design in SysML • Collaboration on SysML models • Published SysML models All connected • Digital thread analytics
- 23. Information flow added on external connection, but not on internal
- 25. • Use cases to be elaborated in SysML • Progress and assignee is tracked in Jira Transitioning from work breakdown to system modeling Completeness: Jira tasks in group are all mapped to SysML
- 28. Progress tracking • Historical analytics as the “progress bar” of a complex engineering process – Model Integrator / Reviewer can follow the “Requirements to System Design” transition process on a version control dashboard – Track progress via KPIs as the mapping completeness is improved – Identify and fix correctness issues quickly
- 29. A well-known and pioneering engineering research organization, NASA JPL's main profile is designing and manufacturing robotic spacecraft to explore the Solar System. IncQuery Labs is proud to help them on their engineering journey to dare mighty things. Computer Aided Engineering The Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) division of NASA JPL is one of the leading groups of experts with the vision to connect systems engineers with other domain experts to develop missions and systems using an open portfolio of tools in a shared environment. The mission is to increase efficiency by promoting seamless tool integration, decreasing redundancy and providing consistent information-paths along the complete digital thread. The CAE Systems Environment Closed ecosystems Challenging to reuse assets or migrate between vendors
- 30. • Uses IncQuery Server for data integration & as a quality analysis platform • Connected to MMS, OpenMBEE’s repository • Authored a wide range of engineering data (E.g., SysML models) in Cameo • Requirements captured in DOORS, or other documents published in the View Editor • Jupyter notebooks and others can be efficiently processed, validated and queried using a scalable graph or full-text queries • From 2019, JPL has used the IncQuery Suite in several ways, including: • The automated validation of SysML models, graph-like visualization of engineering data in combination with third-party libraries • Requirements analysis using OSLC and SPARQL • All taking advantage of the IncQuery Suite’s integration capabilities with the Jupyter ecosystem • JPL CAE uses OpenMBEE for their tool integration challenge • It enables engineers to work in the language of their choice and easily share and document their work across other tools Fostered collaboration and interoperability with full OpenMBEE support by IncQuery Suite
- 31. Takeaways • Disconnected / loosely connected silos are a significant problem today - breaking the MBSE Value Chain • We proposed a conceptual framework to fix this problem – Light-weight traceability approach – Digital Thread Analytics to tackle the 3C Challenge • Applicable to other tools / scenarios as well! • https://incquery.io
- 32. IncQuery Suite at MBSE CES 2022 • Ex No Magic World Symposium • One of the best SE tech conferences in the US • IQL sponsor since 2017 – Cameo Excellence Award 2019 • 2022 edition – Over 450 in-person attendees, 9 booths – Many good sessions – Tutorials, workshops, presentations … – Systems Engineering, Digital Thread, …. • Join us at the European edition in October! https://mbsecyberexperience.3ds.com/
- 33. T h a n k Y U istvan.rath@incquerylabs.com István Ráth, CEO peter.lunk@incquerylabs.com Péter Lunk, Solutions Manager