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We present an overview of the industry, its current challenges, the role of digital threads, and how industry professionals are leveraging Syndeia to develop systems that are more efficient, quicker, and precise. This is followed by related blog posts from Intercax SMEs, offering additional resources.
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Challenges

Over the last fifty years, commercial electronics has shown a number of sustained trends:

  • Greater product functionality, generally supported by more software content
  • Greater product portability, requiring increased mechanical and thermal engineering attention

Greater product interconnectivity, with expectations of a spontaneous organization into networks like the Internet-of-Things.

Despite this, commercial electronics has been slow to recognize Systems Engineering as a discipline in the same way as defense or aerospace.

The role of Digital Thread

Digital Thread plays a crucial role in overcoming key challenges in IoT development by ensuring seamless integration across multidisciplinary components:

  1. Cyber-Physical Systems: Digital thread connects various models and systems, allowing for a unified view and ensuring that no design or analysis tool operates in isolation.
  2. Agile Development: Digital thread connects system models with configuration and project management tools, enabling quick adjustments and facilitating real-time updates and code generation from the system model.
  3. Security: Digital thread ensures traceability and visibility of all system connections, helping identify and address potential vulnerabilities across different system components and ensuring comprehensive security, safety, and reliability.
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How Intercax helps You

How Intercax Helps You Address Evolving Challenges in Commercial Electronics** At Intercax, we understand the growing complexity in commercial electronics, driven by increased functionality, portability, and interconnectivity. Through Syndeia, we integrate models across PLM, CAD, ALM, and simulation tools to create a unified system model. This enhances decision-making, accelerates development, and ensures secure, traceable solutions, helping you stay competitive in the evolving IoT landscape.

Resources

Syndeia®

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.

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Paramagic®

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.

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Advanced Support

Our Support plans are designed to give you the right mix of tools and access to expertise so that you can be successful with Intercax Syndeia while optimizing performance, managing risk, and keeping costs under control.

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Digital Engineering Projects

Digital Thread and Digital Engineering Services from Intercax are designed for organizations that need to accelerate integrated digital engineering for their systems and programs.

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Syndeia Training Program

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. 

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Blog Posts

Intercax has published two tech notes in the area recently, one on a mobile telephone “phablet” accessing a variety of cellular networks and one on a representative IoT product, a locater/pager in an office network. These technotes and associated models, videos and blog posts are listed below.

MBSE for Electronic Voting System Security – Part 1 (Rhapsody)
Dirk Zwemer
Recently I took the opportunity of the INCOSE International Symposium being in Washington DC to consider how modern approaches to Systems Engineering might impact an issue with ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBSE for Electronic Voting System Security – Part 1 (MagicDraw)
Dirk Zwemer
Recently I took the opportunity of the INCOSE International Symposium being in Washington DC to consider how modern approaches to Systems Engineering might impact an issue with ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBSE for Electronic Voting System Security [VIDEO]
Dirk Zwemer
On July 9, 2018, Dr. Dirk Zwemer, President of Intercax LLC, gave a presentation at the INCOSE International Symposium in Washington, DC, on “MBSE for Electronic Voting System ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Consumer Products | Part 5
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction In the first four parts of this blog series, we began to apply a Model-Based Engineering approach to the design of a washing machine, including hardware architecture, ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Consumer Products | Part 4
Dirk Zwemer
In the first three parts of this series, we showed how elements of the central SysML model for a consumer appliance could be connected via Syndeia to elements in PLM (PTC ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Consumer Products | Part 3
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction In addition to the features shown in the two previous parts of this blog series, Model-Based Engineering (MBE) must meet two more requirements:
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Consumer Products | Part 2
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction Requirements represent a bounding box of the product concept as a set limited by Stakeholder needs. They must be complete and consistent, which drives the use of ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Consumer Products | Part 1
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction Model-Based Engineering (MBE) is valuable for smaller systems, such as consumer products. The need for collaboration between different engineering disciplines is just ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Electronics | Part 4
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction Electronics is increasingly about networked products. Here, MBE becomes critical to electronic product development because it incorporates the network connection in ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Electronics, Part 3 - Integrating SysML Model With Other Applications
Dirk Zwemer
In Part 1 and Part 2 of MBE for Electronics series, we captured the high-level functional objectives and architecture of our system using SysML and a Model-Based Engineering ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE For Electronics | Part 2 - SysML Model For An Electronic Product
Dirk Zwemer
Electronic product developers have extraordinarily powerful software design tools at their command, but high-level hardware and software architectures and requirements are often ...
Dirk Zwemer

MBE for Electronics | Part 1 - SysML Model For An Electronic Product
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction Over the last fifty years, commercial electronics has shown a number of sustained trends:
Dirk Zwemer

Modeling Project and Product For Internet-of-Things (IoT) | Part 2
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction In Part 1, we created a SysML model for an IoT product and the system engineering project for developing the IoT product. This model is represented by the gray blocks ...
Dirk Zwemer

Modeling Project and Product for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) - Part 1
Dirk Zwemer
Introduction Every system development project has both product-specific and project-specific considerations:
Dirk Zwemer

Smart Home Internet of Things (IoT) Part 5 - Design, Simulation and System Architecture
Dirk Zwemer
In this fifth and final installment, we look at two examples from the important domains of CAD and simulation to illustrate the "Internet-of-Tools" concept as applied to our Smart ...
Dirk Zwemer

Smart Home Internet of Things (IoT) Part 4 - Smart Home to Smart Grid
Dirk Zwemer
This is the fourth in a series of technical notes describing the application of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to the specification, design, procurement and evaluation of ...
Dirk Zwemer

Smart Home Internet of Things (IoT) Part 3 - Procurement to Evaluation
Dirk Zwemer
The Internet of Things (IoT) holds enormous promise of new capabilities for users and new opportunities for businesses. It also presents enormous challenges to systems engineers. ...
Dirk Zwemer

Smart Home Internet of Things (IoT) Part 2 - Functional Design to Procurement
Dirk Zwemer
The Internet of Things (IoT) holds enormous promise of new capabilities for users and new opportunities for businesses. It also presents enormous challenges to systems engineers. ...
Dirk Zwemer

Smart Home Internet of Things (IoT) Part 1 - Requirements to Functional Design
Dirk Zwemer
The Internet of Things (IoT) holds enormous promise of new capabilities for users and new opportunities for businesses. It also presents enormous challenges to systems engineers. ...
Dirk Zwemer

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