Title: Assessing Required Rework in a Design Reuse Scenario
Abstract:Reuse of proven designs is a common practice in complex engineering systems. However, contextual differences between missions or products - that is, differences in objectives, destinations, environmen...Reuse of proven designs is a common practice in complex engineering systems. However, contextual differences between missions or products - that is, differences in objectives, destinations, environments, and constraints - mean that design reuse can rarely be a "copy and paste" effort. Some amount of rework can be expected to adapt designs from their native or original missions to new missions of interest. This paper develops a generalized process-driven approach for assessing the required rework effort to adapt a given design for a new mission or system. A more structured approach than what is available in the literature and practice, to date, is presented. The paper also describes how the process may be implemented primarily using SysML within an MBSE environment and thereby leverage the significant benefits of MBSE namely, digitizing and centralizing system information, and facilitating reuse via superior storage and access to information. The resulting process forms part of a larger MBSE Reuse Methodology for supporting system architects in making design reuse decisions.Read More
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-10-11
Language: en
Type: article
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