Today, Intercax received a call from Mrs. Claus, the heart and soul of operations and logistics at North Pole. Seven days from the finale and at a time when hope and love cannot be delayed, Santa’s mission is at risk. Evolution of the Sleigh Delivery System (SDS) over the years has resulted in disintegrated silos of data managed by elves in requirements, architecture, hardware, software, analysis, and logistics departments. Part upgrades, requirement changes, and software re-configurations in the SDS are taking hours. Bernard (SDS chief-elf-architect), Tony Sparkgear (SDS chief-hardware-elf), and Codey Frostbyte (SDS chief-software-elf) and their teams are struggling with coordination within and across their teams. In addition, Santa has introduced a last minute major change to SDS payload requirements – everyone from the Naughty List will be moved to the Nice List – to amp up the Christmas spirit and give everyone a new beginning for 2025. This will significantly increase the gift payload on the SDS.

Mrs. Claus wants the digital engineering gurus at Intercax to step in to save Santa’s mission. On her request, Syndeia is now live for North Pole operations. There is nothing more that matters to Team Intercax than to ensure that digital threads earn victory for Mrs. and Mr. Claus’ mission 2024.

Over the next 5 days, the Syndeia digital thread platform will be used to integrate all SDS data silos and rapidly build, visualize, and navigate live digital threads. Changes done by any Elf team on the SDS will flow to other teams in seconds and not hours. Mrs. Claus will have a live dashboard to track mission status and resolve bottlenecks.

Good system engineering starts from requirements, which are unfortunately scattered in documents and databases managed by architecture, hardware, software, and cybersecurity elf teams. Prompt engineers at Intercax leveraged ChatGPT to seed a SysML 2.0 textual model of SDS requirements from the collection of documents provided by Mrs. Claus and the chief elves, as shown in Figure 1.

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After a series of prompts and data cleanup, we finally have an organized set of requirements. SysML v2 Submission Team’s pilot infrastructure on JupyterHub is used to validate SDS requirements in SysML 2.0 textual notation and generate requirement decomposition views, as shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3.

With a simple publish command, requirements are published to a central repository using the new SysML 2.0 standard API.

Syndeia digital thread platform is integrated with SysML 2.0 API providers. The Sleigh Delivery System Specification project is visible and its contents can be browsed on the Syndeia Web Dashboard.

SDS requirements can be explored in a graph view and loaded incrementally via the Syndeia Web Dashboard, as shown below.

SDS requirements scatted in multiple documents are now consolidated into a single source as a SysML 2.0 model, available in textual views and in live online dashboard via Syndeia.

Mrs. Claus is impressed by the rapid progress made by the Intercax team within hours after her call. She is looking forward to Day 2. The Intercax team will save Santa’s mission 2024!

Summary of Syndeia at North Pole for Santa Mission 2024

• Day 1 – This post.
• Day 2 – Sleigh Delivery System – Architecture and Digital Thread Dashboard
• Day 3 – 3D Sleigh Assembly model coordinated with System Architecture
• Day 4 – SDS Hardware, Software, and Verification Digital Threads go live
• Day 5 – Santa’s Mission 2024 with 8.2 billion landings made possible by Digital Threads