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At Airbus the existing knowledge / intuitions on the definition of product, industrial system and in-service support architectures, based on past market experience, is currently under a deep reviewed as the overall aerospace ecosystem is significantly changing and with an increasing speed. There's a need of support for multiple options evaluations opened by how all these different opportunities & threats at market level combines, to give way to possible new architectures / business models, and make some others dead ends. Within the DDMS Airbus digital transformation program we have therefore prioritized the launch of the development of a lean but complete efficient exploration of highly multi-dimensional design space anticipating foreseen ecosystems disruptions in the next decades.
Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is a paradigm for systems engineering through formalized domain models instead of documents. One of its goals is to achieve both better designs and design processes by clear, traceable representation of complex systems.
Recent progress is shown in an MBSE-based process applied to an overall aircraft design. It begins with requirements, functional, logical, and physical decomposition of the aircraft as well as supporting analyses. The process also encompasses enumeration of alternatives, coordination of analyses, and multi-attribute decision support. An MBSE approach coordinates multi-disciplinary analysis (MDA) and design space exploration (DSE) tools to have greater impact on design by providing traceable, reconfigurable linkage to system requirements. Future challenges are identified in the linkage between MBSE and methods of MDA and DSE.