Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Today‘s product development is usually based on processes that include a high level of communication and documentation such as requirements matrixes or individual system specifications. However, companies figured out that this approach quickly reaches its limits in managing complex cross-divisional functions and avoiding errors in system or product development.

MBSE is a methodology that describes, combines and monitores all required information in one abstract model and therefore eliminates the communication of unnecessary information by only relying on the relevant data:

• All customer and/or product requirements
• The system architecture
• The description of the mode of operation of a mechatronic system including its behaviors

This makes it easier for engineering teams to

• get a better understanding of the problem
• recognize and master complexity
• improve communication between all parties involved in the project
• early detect and prevent errors through continuous traceability and
• transparent dependencies
• improve the handling of changes throughout all involved divisons