4.4.3 Efficiently Managing Product Baseline Configurations in the Model‐Based System Development of a Combat System Product Family

Abstract

AbstractEfficient 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