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• What is PLM? a
• How Can MBSE Help?
• How Can I Improve My PLM Practices?
What Is Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM)?
 Defining
PLM disciplines
• PLM combines five distinct
o Systems Engineering
o Program Management (which includes Portfolio Management)
o Product Design
o Process Management for Manufacturing
o Product Data Management
• Many practices focus on one or two of these disciplines in depth,
but to be successful we know that all five areas (and more) are
needed to manage products through the entire lifecycle
 PLM Disciplines In-
• Depth
Further analysis shows
that the five primary PLM
disciplines have a
number of sub-
disciplines and products
• A complete PLM
capability needs all these
features
• It must produce the
deliverables in all these
areas
• To better understand
these requirements, we
need to understand the
lifecycle processes better
 The Product
Lifecycle • Many ways to visualize the
Current Operations Future Operations Demolition lifecycle, but they all have
and Maintenance
(Process
and Maintenance
(Process
and Disposal essentially the same phases
Management) Management) and steps
Operational
• We need to capture
Architecture
Development T&E information in each phase
and
Transition
and step to provide
understanding and
System Integration documentation for the design
Design
and Test and development of any
product
• SE and PM cut across the
Hardware/Software
Acquisition Systems entire lifecycle
(Product Design) Engineering,
Program & Data
Management
Processes During Design
Phase
System Analysis and
Requirements Control
Analysis

• Design and Analysis

Best Use: Functional Analysis processes consist
“Classical SE”
and Allocation primarily of classic
Best Use:
systems engineering and
Architecture program management
Developmen
t (To-Be) • Specifications, bills of
Synthesis
materials, and other
information needed to
Adapted from EIA-632
buy or build products
Best Use: Reverse
Engineering (As-Is) result

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Coming Up the Vee

• Once components
are procured, the
integration and
I&V Planning verification
Design Monitoring processes ensure
that requirements
Integration were met
• Customer
satisfaction and
Verification & transition to
Validation operation is a key
part of these steps

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How Can Model-Based
Systems Engineering
(MBSE) Help?
 Model-Based Systems Engineering
Definitionsystems engineering
• “Model-based
(MBSE) is the formalized application
of modeling to support system
requirements, design, analysis,
verification and validation, beginning
in the conceptual design phase and
continuing throughout development
and later life cycle phases.” – INCOSE
• But what does this mean in practical
terms?
 What Is
• Disciplines include, butMBSE?
are not limited to:
o Requirements Analysis and Management
o Functional Analysis and Allocation
o Physical Architecture Modeling (from block diagrams to CAD)
o Verification and Validation (including simulation)
• In other words all aspects of systems engineering and program
management
o Both SE and PM attempt to optimize cost, schedule, and performance
– one
for the system, the other for the program
• The main difference between SE and MBSE is the use of modern
software tools to capture data in a repository and convert this data
into information through analyses and visualization
 What’s a
Model? Combined Ontologies,
Drawings, and Execution Logic

Formal Computable Modeling Standards

Ontologies
LML
Formal Ontology Modeling Standards (e.g., DM2)
Drawings
SysML
No Formal Drawing-based Modeling Standards (e.g., IDEF)
Modeling

No Formal “Paper-based” SE
Modeling We need to move from today’s
state of primarily ad hoc and
Ad hoc “SE” paper-based practices to
computable modeling standards
 Benefits of
• Models
Models provide traceability in many dimensions
• Models can be automatically validated using simulation and rule
checkers
• Models can be interrogated
• Models can be reused
• Models can be easily changed

Clearly, PLM relies on models to be effective … MBSE

provides a means for developing and managing those
models
How Can I Improve My PLM
Practices?
 Do a Better Job of Systems
• Use a Engineering
complete systems
engineering environment
o Requirements View
o Functional and Physical
Diagrams
o Discrete Event and Monte
Carlo simulators
o Test Center
 Capture and Relate Program Management
Information
• Model management
processes
• Create work breakdown
structures
• Capture decisions
• Identify and manage
risks
• Gantt Chart and cost
• MS Project
interoperability
 Capture Product Design
• Information
Capture and visualize CAD files
• Decompose into database objects
• Capture artifacts from other, more
detailed analyses
• Develop design specifications from
models, automatically
• Develop test plans and capture
test results
 Better Manage Manufacturing
• Processes
Model and verify processes
using simulations
• Model states and modes
• Conduct FMECAs
• Interface with MPM tools
using SDK/APIs
• Integrate with high fidelity
tools
 Improve Your Project Data
• Capture keyManagement
attributes,
o part numbers
o part descriptions
o supplier/vendor information
o material data sheets ...
• Edit schema to meet special
needs
• Manage electronic files using
Artifacts
• Construct WBSs and BOMs
 Real Time
• Collaborate with Collaboration
your team
members across
multiple views
• Simultaneously
shows real-time
user status
• Group chat
• Project
notifications
 Scale to Meet the
• Test to millions objectsNeed
and
large number of
simultaneous users
• Responsive, even with large
databases
• Limited only by the hardware
you run it on (cloud-
computing)
Cold Start Server in
Database View in Seconds Average Dashboard View Average Database View in Average Simple Search
Entities in Project (s) Connections in Milliseconds (ms) Seconds (ms) Time in Seconds (ms)
10,000 0.63 33,540 102.04 250.50 234.54
100,000 0.78 334,980 108.60 294.84 260.81
500,000 0.78 1,674,180 156.26 240.00 260.39
1,000,000 0.69 3,348,180 204.71 211.22
2,000,000
10 Mil 33,481,282 600.81 812.00 533.69
 Easy to
• Overlays Use
• Roll over definitions
• Drag and drop
• Sidebar for Attributes
• Responsive
• All developed to the
latest web software
standards
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 Summar
y and manage your products
• PLM is critical for you to develop
throughout their lifecycles
• MBSE provides a formalized methodology for conducting
PLM
• Innoslate® provides all the features you need to perform
PLM