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

Transformation Enablers

TechOps Domain

798 WG Members

161 Viva Engage Members

56 MBSE for PDES/LOTAR Consortia Members

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 standards used during the execution of their business processes in the product lifecycle.
  • To collaborate with data exchange 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 September 2024. The submittal was extended from May in order to incorporate all the comments from INCOSE 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. A joint INCOSE/PDES/LOTAR/GPDIS Summit is being September 23-26, 2024. This will include presentations and discussions on the impact of MBSE on Digital Threads and Digital Twins. You can find information on this Summit at (https://gpdisonline.com). Please check the GPDIS Website for registration information. Follow this link to see the agenda: GPDIS MBSE Workshop Agenda


2024 Third Quarter PDES-LOTAR MBSE Workshop

The LOTAR MBSE Working Group Sessions are being held Monday September 16 - Wednesday September 18 in Phoenix, Arizona.  

Topics of the presentations and discussions include:

  • INCOSE IW 2025 participation planning
  • MBSE-IF update and project planning.
  • NAS9300 Part 500 Review for submittal
  • Preparation for September 24 MBSE Workshop at GPDIS (Phoenix)
  • Koneksys Model Traceability Tool update and demonstration
  • Digital thread and Digital twin presentation and discussion
  • ADPMAG Global Collaboration paper
  • MoSSEC to Contextual Metadata paper
  • Cascade RFP Update
  • DE Taxonomy (DEIX WG and AIAA)

 

PDES-LOTAR Workshop Information and Registration

The presentations from these sessions will be available on our Viva Engage Community 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. MBSE/DTh/DTw Workshop at the 2024 GPDIS Summit in Phoenix, AX September 23-26, 2024 (https://gpdisonline.com)

Planned Work Products

  • INCOSE Model Portfolio Management Guide Model
  • NAS9300 - 500 series MBSE based LOTAR standard.
  • 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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