Intercax
IntercaxThe air hums with the sound of high-tech enchantments and the cheerful chatter of elves hard at work. Twinkling fairy lights hang from the rafters, casting a warm, festive glow. Snowflake-shaped projectors emit holograms of digital threads woven by Syndeia. North Pole is moving in high gear before Santa’s liftoff in 2 days. Bernard, Tony Sparkgear (Chief-Hardware-Elf) and Cody Frostbyte (Chief-Software-Elf) want to ensure that hardware and software bills-of-materials (BOMs) are derived from the system architecture. North Pole digital engineering environment is using SysML 2.0 for the Sleigh Delivery System (SDS) architecture, Teamcenter for hardware BOM, Windchill for logistics BOM, GitHub for SDS software, and TestRail for verification. Syndeia is ensuring a consistent digital highway and seamless information flow across these silos.
Using Syndeia, Bernard drops the SDS architecture (SysML 2.0) to a folder in Teamcenter PLM, as shown in Figure 1. Syndeia automatically generates the multi-level BOM structure in Teamcenter from the SysML 2.0 part usage structure, as shown on the RHS in Figure 1 and in the Teamcenter Active Workspace view in Figure 2.
Bernard and Tony Sparkgear are elated to witness the seamless transformation. In addition, Syndeia has also woven digital thread relations between the SysML 2.0 artifacts and Teamcenter item revisions to ensure downstream change tracking and synchronization. Figure 3 shows these digital thread relations.
A new part logistics team at North Pole operations led by Holly Fleetfoot (Chief-Logistics-Elf) is also using Windchill PLM system. Using a similar transformation in Syndeia, an equivalent BOM structure for the SDS is generated in Windchill system, as also shown in the digital thread graph in Figure 3.
Cody Frostbyte is reviewing all the SDS software modules managed in GitHub and ensuring that verification tests for each module are being tracked in TestRail. Using Syndeia, Bernard and Cody Frostbyte have connected the SDS software sub-systems (SysML 2.0) with SDS software modules (GitHub) and corresponding test cases (TestRail). Figures 4 and 5 show the SDS software digital thread for the Navigation Software and the Naughty and Nice Verification Software respectively.
Syndeia is now maintaining a live digital thread for the Sleigh Delivery System. In the Digital Thread Explorer and elsewhere on the Syndeia Dashboard, the SDS elf-team can select any artifact from any repository and navigate to connected artifacts in other repositories, as shown in Figure 6.
For Santa’ mission 2024, Syndeia is weaving and curating a live data mesh across multiple authoritative sources of truth (ASoTs), such as SysML 2.0, Teamcenter, Windchill, GitHub, TestRail, Jama, and Jira.
A small enchanted snowstorm swirls above the Syndeia Dashboard, a visual reward for completing a major milestone. Bernard raises a cup of Mrs. Claus’ famous peppermint cocoa in a toast. “To flawless integration and digital threads using Syndeia — and to making Santa’s job easier!”
Summary of Syndeia at North Pole for Santa Mission 2024
- Day 1 – North Pole Calls Intercax for Digital Mission Possible
- Day 2 – Sleigh Delivery System – Architecture and Digital Thread Dashboard
- Day 3 – 3D Sleigh Assembly model coordinated with System Architecture
- Day 4 – This Post.
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