A Holistic System Lifecycle Engineering Approach – Closing the Loop between System Architecture and Digital Twins

• Published in: Procedia CIRP Vol. 84; pp. 538 - 544
• Main Authors: Thomas, Dickopf, Hristo, Apostolov, Patrick, Müller, Göbel, Jens C., Sven, Forte
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 2019
• Subjects: Closed-Loop Systems Engineering; Internet of Things; Model-Based Systems Engineering; System Lifecycle Management; System Lifecycle Management; Model-Based Systems Engineering; Internet of Things; Closed-Loop Systems Engineering
• ISSN: 2212-8271; 2212-8271
• DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2019.04.257

This contribution introduces an approach for the optimization of smart products and systems in the early development phases through a Closed-Loop Systems Engineering approach. This approach – holistic in terms of considering the overall system and its usage context, interdisciplinary, overreaching multiple lifecycle phases, and supported methodologically as well as tool-wise – combines aspects from both Model-Based Systems Engineering and Product resp. System Lifecycle Management to optimize the system by using advanced verification and validation methods and techniques, in particular Model-, Twin- and System-in-the-Loop, and seamless feedback of product usage data to the early development phase. This approach has been prototypically applied at the example of a test bed of an autonomous construction area system of systems.