MBSE at GPDIS
It was exciting, my first day at my first GPDIS. The Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS) is a communications hub for industry principals to foster knowledge through the exchange of ideas, solutions, and methods. This year's lead topic is Value-Driven Autonomous Systems through Data Interoperability and the agenda is full of related presentation and insights. A good place for me to be and I am very thankful for the invitation. From Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to Additive Manufacturing (AM), it's really a good mixture.
Peter Bilello from CIMdata recently published an article, stating that the increasing number of acronyms around MBSE makes PLM-life hard. Yesterday, I got a better feeling what that means. SE, PLM, MBSE, MBD etc., one really has to take care not to mix up things. But taking this into account, one can dive into a huge knowledge-base, share innovative thoughts, and drive things forward.
Henrik Weimer from Airbus and myself had the pleasure to open the MBSE session at GPDIS. Inspired by the latest results of prostep ivip's project Smart Systems Engineering and concepts for a smart application of MBSE in industry we were proud to announce the collaboration of the A&D PLM Action Group and prostep ivip Association in the field of MBSE. Just looking at the response we got and the dynamic within the following Q&A session tells us, that we are on the right track. And that it is now the right time to start with a cross-branch collaboration to really apply MBSE in order to realize autonomous systems.
Adrian Murton from Airbus then gave insights regarding the industrial application of MoSSEC. It was pretty cool to see MBD processes monitored and steered.
Additionally, I was happy to be guest in a presentation and vivid live-demo of additive manufacturing by Zachary Etier and Blaine Baker from Northrop Grumman. Besides technical insights into the (process) challenges of a manufacturer, one figure really astonished me: ROI within 12 month. Wow! A brave new world, where the vision to print spare parts where they are needed instead of shipping them is right around the corner. And maybe, technologies like those currently realized in research projects like SAMPL can then help to ensure that only "Original Spare Parts" can be delivered be additive manufacturing.
Highlight of the day was for sure the keynote of Col Paul Harmer (Deputy Director of Engineering, US Air Force, HQ AF Material Command) and Dr. Paul Hartman (Air Force Digital Enterprise) - content-wise and presentation-entertainment. Interesting to understand the AF's Digital Engineering Strategy as well as the architectures and solutions which are currently in realization.
Looking forward to GPDIS' second day :)