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The Benefits Of Contributions To Improving The Integrated Architect Model

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For a mission as large as this there is a need for the multiple stakeholders to be able to update the integrated architect model, rather than providing updates to their own private versions. When they have provided these updates there is also a need for the model to generate the products and representations they need within the required time period. The maximum benefit of this can be achieved if the end-to-end description serves as a single source of information for all the major stakeholders involved. A way of achieving this is to improve communication between stakeholders; more specifically the way feedback is processed about the tools being used. Currently major tools, such as SysML, have online forums and tutorials to help new used …show more content…

An insight they would of otherwise not had.

d. Improving Tool Performance

The stability of tools that are used for system-of-system architecture have yet to achieve the standard of stability and range that other model based tools have. The only way to improve this would be on a code level. Keeping open a direct channel with the tool designers can help this along. This channel can help to fix bugs and improve the tools capabilities.

7. Initial Conclusions

The initial conclusions drawn from this paper on how to improve the system architecture for future Orion missions would be the move towards one modeling tool across all stakeholders. This will not happen overnight and must be smoothly transitioned with the help of the core modeling team and online forums and tutorials. Other ways to improve the architecture would be to improve the tools themselves. This can be done with the open channel with the tool designer and other users. This again would benefit from online forums to help source bugs and to enhance the capabilities of the tool.
On a management level several lessons can be learned from the use of MBSE on Orion that can be used in the future on other missions.
The first lesson learned was the fact that the use of the terminology “Model Based System Engineering” often led to confusion amongst the stakeholders. To avoid this the team used the phrase “system engineering using a modeling approach”. Stakeholders and

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