Author: Tim Weilkiens

Swiss Engineering Day SWISSED 2016

Favorite SE methods that increase an organization’s competitiveness

Last week I was a panelist together with Bruce P. Douglass and Stefan Hänggi at the SWISSED conference in Zurich. The topic of the panel was “How does implementing Systems Engineering enhance an organization’s competitiveness?”. We had a very good discussion and since I was one of the panelists and not the minute taker I cannot…
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Nordic Systems Engineering Tour (NoSE) 2017

NoSE 2016 Tour Report

NoSE 2016 successfully finished in Warsaw today. The 4th Nordic Systems Engineering Tour was again a great event. The tour speakers started in Helsinki at Monday, headed then to Stockholm at Tuesday, Copenhagen Wednesday (in collaboration with the Systems Engineering Spring School), Hamburg at Thursday and finally Warsaw. Each location was enriched by talks of…
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Slackness

The Gap of Slackness

The figure shows the Gap of Slackness. The vertical axis represents the typical challenges for product vendors. They are for example more innovation, less time-to-market, less cost, and perfect quality. You can certainly mention more of them for your domain. The system curve along the time always increases and reflects the steadily increasing demand for…
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MBSE4U – Publishing on the Pulse of the Market

End of 2015 I have founded the publishing platform MBSE4U for MBSE books. A few days ago I have updated my social media profiles with MBSE4U and got a lot of responses. Therefore, a few short notes to clarify things. The mission of MBSE4U is to provide books with up-to-date content about model-based systems engineering.…
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Variant Modeling with SysML - https://leanpub.com/variantmodelingwithsysml

New book “Variant Modeling with SysML”

I have just published my new book „Variant Modeling with SysML”. It presents a method for modeling variants of system requirements and system architecture artifacts with standard SysML and a standard SysML modeling tool. About 10 years ago I published the method and SysML profile for the first time. Since then I have had many…
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The Myth of the Association

The association is a strange model element. And many myths about the association are going around. For example, think of all the discussions about the meaning and difference of aggregation and composition. Did you know that the concepts of aggregation and composition have not much to do with associations? I will not explain the association…
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SYSMOD book cover

New book: SYSMOD – The Systems Modeling Toolbox – Pragmatic MBSE with SysML

I am happy to announce my new book about SYSMOD. SYSMOD is a MBSE toolbox for pragmatic modeling of systems. It is well-suited to be used with SysML. The book provides a set of methods with roles and outputs. Concrete guidances and examples show how to apply the methods with SysML. Today SYSMOD or more specifically customizations…
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Call for Presenters: Nordic Systems Engineering Tour 2016

As co-founder and a member of the organizing committee I am proud to announce another NoSE tour: For the fourth time the Nordic Systems Engineering Tour will be on tour from May 23rd to 27th. The tour is a one-day conference with four different venues. Tour speakers will present at all venues, local speakers only at…
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New book: Model-Based System Architecture

I am happy to announce that my brand new book Model-Based System Architecture has hit the shelves. I have written the book together with my colleague Stephan Roth and two good friends from the MBSE community Jesko Lamm and Markus Walker. We have collected a set of best practices, principles, concepts, and definitions about model-based…
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Here it is! SysML 1.4

Recently I’ve asked Where is SysML 1.4? Due to some formal problems it took a long time to make an official publication of the new version SysML 1.4. The work on the SysML 1.4 was completed a long time ago. Now SysML 1.4 is officially published. You find the specification on the OMG server: https://www.omg.org/spec/SysML/1.4/ . I’ve…
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