SESP 2023

System Information Management

About this theme

Information and data from the systems engineering process is increasingly captured, stored and maintained in digital form. The potential use and exchange of this data between disciplines, stakeholders and different phases along the life-cycle of a product open the possibility to improve completeness and consistency at system level. This consequently requires an increased effort to ensure the links and traces between different types of data and information, as well as the possibility to access and exchange this information in an unambiguous way.

As modelling and simulation facilities are becoming increasingly important for the overall system design and verification process, there is a growing need for the associated data repositories to store, retrieve and maintain the corresponding information adequately. Potential standards can form the basis for the specification on functional and data level in order to achieve semantic and functional interoperability between the different users of the data.

The objectives for System Information Management are:

support Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)
improve interoperability based on a common data model
improve re-use
improve configurability and flexibility
improve consistency
separating functionality and data, allowing different views and manipulation

Also here, the need of these aspects for the Digital Twin needs to be addressed by relevant contributions to the workshop.

Example of topics

System Modelling and Simulation in System Engineering
System Engineering Data repository
Data interoperability exchange with other spacecraft domains, e.g. design data, spacecraft database
System, Simulation and AIT Databases
Reuse of simulation products: models, architectures, procedures and databases
Model based specification – functional and data level
Model-based procurement approaches