Tool Integration & Model Lifecycle Management Working Group

Provides a forum for discussion of best practices, methods and processes that promote the development, validation and deployment of standards to advance data exchange capability of digital data created during a product development lifecycle.

Working Group Purpose & Mission

Mission:

The Tool Integration and Model Lifecyle Management WG provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of best practices, methods and processes that promote the development, the validation and the deployment of standards to advance the exchange of digital data between MBSE tools and toolsets.
MOSSEC

Several INCOSE working groups are working with the TIMLM Working Group on the development of the LOTAR NAS 9300-xxx series of Long Term Archival and Retrieval (LOTAR) of standards for MBSE. Our working group is directly supporting PDES/LOTAR working groups to develop the LOTAR for MBSE standards. Our Mou with PDES Inc. enables INCOSE to participate in ISO and LOTAR development with several other standards organizations as shown in the following organization model:  LOTAR_Overview

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TechOps Domain

798 WG Members

161 Viva Engage Members

56 MBSE for PDES/LOTAR Consortia Members (MBSE-IF)

Established in 1996

Chair

John Nallon

Co-Chairs

Mark Williams

Juan Mendo

Got a Question? Contact us at TIMLMWG@incose.net

 

Scope

The TIMLM WG is focused on the interoperability of tools, data, models and processes as they relate to a Systems Engineering process and methods throughout the acquisition and product development life cycles. The TIMLM collaborates with standards organizations such as PDES Inc., LOTAR, other STEP organizations and the INCOSE Standards Development Department to advance the data exchange standards to meet our stakeholders needs.

Goals

  • To provide the systems engineering community a reliable source of information about tool data exchange and interoperability  standards used during the execution of their business processes in the product lifecycle.
  • To collaborate with standards organizations and other supporting INCOSE Working Groups to characterize systems engineering tool integration and interoperability requirements for tools and data standards for the exchange of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) digital artifacts.
  • To promote the development, validation and deployment of standards that advance the interoperability, storage, archival and retrieval of digital data and artifacts produced by systems engineering processes.
  • To provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of information regarding tool interoperability, data exchange, use cases for applying  data exchange and interoperability standards and discussing interoperability accomplishments of in our systems engineering community

Activities and Coming Events

  1. PDES MBSE and LOTAR MBSE Workshops are conducted quarterly and are detailed on our Yammer site. 
  2. PDES/LOTAR/TIMLM meetings are held weekly every Wednesday from 08:30 to 10:00 AM (Central Time USA) and open to all interested parties.
  3. ISO-10303-AP243 (MoSSEC) has been approved by ISO and released to the public. PDES/INCOSE/LOTAR has embraced this standard for model exchange and is updating all specifications and standards accordingly.
  4. A pre-submittal review of the NAS9300-500 LOTAR for MBSE standard is in review and will be submitted for approval in March 2025. The submittal was extended in order to incorporate all the comments from INCOSE, SAE, LOTAR and PDES reviewers.
  5. A Model Portfolio Management Guideline has been published as an INCOSE product and is available in the INCOSE Store for downloading. It is free to INCOSE Members.
  6. Our next event will be the INCOSE International Workshop being held February 1-4, 2025 in Seville, Spain.
  7. Followed by the LOTAR 1st Quarter workshop in Hamburg, Germany March 9-13, 2025.

IW 2025 in Seville, Spain

 The TIMLM WG  has a 3 day agenda planned for IW 2025. 
Topics of the presentations and discussions included:
  •  Sat. Feb 1
    • System Structure and Parameterization (SSP) Standard Overview.
  • Sunday Feb 2 
    • Opening Plenary
    • SE Interoperability Conference Review
    • Digital Threads/Digital Twins
  • Monday Feb 3
    • Intro to Knowledge Graphs
    • Demo of Formala Student Car simulation and Dth/Dtw discussion
    • MBSE-iF - Introduction of OMG CASCaDE and the DDP
  • Tuesday Feb 4 - working sessions with other working groups.

The presentations from these sessions will be available on our Viva Engage Site for your use. 

Planned Activities

  1. Continue working with PDES and LOTAR to submit the NAS 9300 series MBSE data standards for publication.
  2. Conduct Quarterly virtual INCOSE/LOTAR/PDES Workshops and 2 PDES/LOTAR in person workshops.
  3. Conduct weekly meetings with PDES/LOTAR/INCOSE working groups with featured guest speakers from other standards organizations, tool vendors and member companies.
  4. Support for the emerging MoSSEC implementations and MBSE Interoperability forum
  5. IW 2025 Workshop in Seville, Spain February 1-4, 2025
  6. LOTAR MBSE Workshop in Hamburg, Germany March 9-13, 2025

Planned Work Products

  • INCOSE Model Portfolio Management Guide Model
  • NAS9300 - 500 series MBSE based LOTAR standard.
  • NAS9300 - 515 the Model Report
  • Subject Matter presentations on standards and interoperability to other organizations, standards developers, INCOSE Chapters and Working Groups.
Find out more by visiting the  TIMLM Working Group Yammer community today!
 
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