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Systems Engineering

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Usage

To model Systems using SysML in Enterprise Architect, you work through the following steps:

  • Create a Systems Engineering model to develop your system
  • Create a Requirements model to define the systems requirements and expectations
  • Create an Operational Domain model, which describes the environment that the system operates within, and the entities it interacts with
  • Create Constraint models to describe the systems operating characteristics using parametric models
  • Simulate the parametric models to verify their correctness and obtain the desired characteristic
  • Design the system's composition using SysML Blocks and Parts
  • Implement the embedded software using UML Classes and behavioral models
  • Create a Library of reusable SysML blocks, representing subsystems that can be reused on other projects, and other common Type definitions

SysML

Create a Systems Engineering model

Create a Requirements model

Create an Operational Domain model

SysML Parametric Models

Simulating a SysML Model

Compose System Design

Generate from Behaviour Models

Create Re-usable Subsystems

Example:

These steps are represented graphically in the following flow:

SEWorkflow

To create a Systems Engineering Model from a template provided with Enterprise Architect, follow the steps below

How To:

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1.

In the Project Browser, either:

  • Click on the New Model From Pattern icon in the toolbar
  • Right-click on a model root node and select the Add a New Model using Wizard context menu option, or
  • Right-click on a package and select the Add | Add a New Model using Wizard context menu option.

The Select Model(s) dialog displays.

 

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In the Select From field, click on the drop-down arrow and select Systems Engineering Model. Alternatively, if it is listed in the Technology panel, select the Systems Engineering Model item.

 

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In the Name panel, select the checkbox next to the Systems Engineering Model icon.

 

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Click on the OK button.

 

Example:

The following model structure is created in the Project Browser:

SEModel Browser

The Systems Engineering Model diagram, shown below, encapsulates the key components of the Systems Engineering model.

SystemsEngineering Model

Notes:

  • Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is available in the Systems Engineering edition and Ultimate edition of Enterprise Architect