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Digital Thread for Aerospace – Combining Hardware, Software, Human, and Environmental Systems.
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The global aerospace industry encompasses the development, production, and maintenance of aircraft, spacecraft, and defense systems. It includes both civil aviation and military applications, producing commercial airliners, private jets, drones, missiles, and satellites. Aerospace organizations have been among the earliest and most active adopters of systems engineering, applying it to projects from airliners to extra-planetary spacecrafts. These projects require long-term, multi-partner development of complex products and these products must function with high reliability in harsh and unforgiving environments. Savvy aerospace contractors and acquisition managers know that a Syndeia digital thread keeps them from the grave consequences of mission failure.
Aerospace organizations manage vast repositories of performance, physics, safety, and economic constraints; complex cyber-physical structures and behaviors; software components; workflow task requests; and KPIs with their verification test suites. The scale of these repositories is compounded by the fact that major aerospace endeavors—such as designing, producing, and maintaining a commercial passenger airplane or planning a Mars mission—often involve hundreds of independent yet collaborating companies.
In this complex environment, the digital thread plays a critical role in connecting and integrating these disparate repositories, ensuring that Program Office and Mission Assurance staff, including Deputy Program Managers and Systems Engineers, can rapidly access, trace, and analyze relevant data.
Today, aerospace professionals use Syndeia to provide rapid access to the many engineering repositories that store vital digital engineering artifacts for the many ongoing projects and to allow time-limited staff to determine which of the many repositories are relevant for just their specific digital thread project.They are using their digital thread project to quickly locate the tens of SysML models which hold their critical MBSE from their SysML collaboration servers, no longer hunting through thousands of archived SysML models to find the ones which matter. They are synchronizing their systems specifications in SysML with their CAD and PLM repositories at the speed of computer automation, no longer waiting for duplicative data entry across disciplines. Aerospace analysts are doing multiple-criteria decision analysis and trade space evaluation using data science pipelines that are empowered by project-relevant SWaP-C style aggregate information retrieved from the Syndeia digital thread connections.
Syndeia® is the digital thread platform for model-based engineering. It enables engineering teams to collaboratively and concurrently develop and manage a digital thread for any complex system/product.
ParaMagic® plugin for MagicDraw makes SysML models come alive! By executing constraint relationships in SysML parametric diagrams, systems engineers can run simulations and trade studies for complex systems from concept through final test.
Our Support plans are designed to give you the right mix of tools and access to expertise so that you can be successful with Syndeia while optimizing performance, managing risk, and keeping costs under control.
Digital Thread and Digital Engineering Services from Intercax are designed for organizations that need to accelerate integrated digital engineering for their systems and programs.
Intercax is dedicated to ensuring that Syndeia users gain a comprehensive understanding of the digital thread platform's capabilities. We provide live, online, instructor-led training sessions throughout the year.
Many of Intercax’s blogs and tech notes have used aerospace examples, especially the application of Syndeia to a UAV system. See the listing below. A space mission-specific example is described in the tech note on modeling “The Martian”, based on the book and movie.
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Modern engineering uses computer models and systems engineering (SE) is following this pattern. The basis of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is that the system can be captured in a single unified computer model, a single source of truth from which all required SE views and artifacts can be generated. Good MBSE practices can reduce errors and ambiguity, shorten development times, and improve collaboration between disciplines.