Enhancing integrated design model–based process and engineering tool environment: Towards an integration of functional analysis, operational analysis and knowledge capitalisation into co-engineering practices

Abstract

This article presents the activities of Thales Alenia Space France in the scope of the continuous improvement of its concurrent engineering practices. It describes an on-going work and proposed solutions to extend the scope of this environment in 0/A/B1 phases with new capabilities to support system engineers work: • Capability to define the operational concept and main operational scenarios; • Capability to perform functional analysis and function allocation trade-off, enabling the distribution of functions between system segments and sub-systems; capability to produce easily accessible synthesis and dashboard to team and other stakeholders, enabling easy sharing of information and models; • Capability to capitalise on equipment data and equipment models. This article will cover both the process aspects and tooling support. It proposes in a first part to justify and describe the proposed evolutions starting from current practices. Then, a second chapter describes the proposed enhancements and finally the last chapter presents the proposed tooling implementation.