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4.4.3 Efficiently Managing Product Baseline Configurations in the Model‐Based System Development of a Combat System Product Family
Author(s) -
Mitchell Steven W.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2012.tb01358.x
Subject(s) - systems modeling language , scalability , computer science , product (mathematics) , baseline (sea) , systems engineering , component (thermodynamics) , process (computing) , product lifecycle , task (project management) , software engineering , scale (ratio) , new product development , software , engineering , unified modeling language , database , oceanography , physics , geometry , mathematics , marketing , quantum mechanics , business , thermodynamics , programming language , geology , operating system
Abstract Efficient management of product configuration baselines is a challenge in the evolution of any industrial scale product family. This is particularly true with current standards‐based system modeling tools, as the standards themselves are just beginning to address this problem in a scalable fashion. In the case of the Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical Systems (SWFTS) common submarine combat system, dozens of product configurations must be managed in parallel, with many of those baselines being updated several times a year. To support this activity a new SysML modeling technique has been developed for constructing hardware and software component bills of materials. It extends the concepts of libraries with SysML catalogs to bound the complexity of the task, improving the quality and efficiency of the systems engineering process. General Terms: Systems Engineering, System Evolution