Validating Process Models in Systems Engineering Environments

Industrial Automation Tool Integration for Engineering Project Automation 2011.

工业技术;计算机科学

Wikan Danar Sunindyo ; Stefan Biffl

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PID  :  42436

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Systems engineering environments usually involve multi-disciplinary engineering domains, such as mechanical,electrical, and software engineering, to cooperate and reach thecommon goals, e.g., to produce good quality products in time.Validation of systems engineering processes is challenging,because typically there are large numbers of possiblecombinations of heterogeneous sub-processes to test. In thispaper, we propose a simulation-based approach to validatesystems engineering processes. Simulation-based processvalidation (SbPV) aims at improving the efficiency of processvalidation in the real world. We collect engineering processdata from the simulation of the systems engineeringenvironments and analyze the conformance with the designedprocess model. As a real-world use case, we describe aproduction automation system and use a prototypeimplementation of the proposed SbPV approach to link thereal engineering process information with the designed processmodel. Major result was the SbPV approach improved theefficiency of validating systems engineering processes and cancomplement testing of the sub-processes.