Tool Integration and Model Lifecycle Management

Tool Integration & Model Lifecycle Management Working Group

Provides a forum for discussion of best practices, methods and processes that promote the development, validation and deployment of standards to advance data exchange capability of digital data created during a product development lifecycle.

Working Group Purpose & Mission

Mission:

The Tool Integration and Model Lifecyle Management WG provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of best practices, methods and processes that promote the development, the validation and the deployment of standards to advance the exchange of digital data between MBSE tools and toolsets.

Several INCOSE working groups are working with the TIMLM Working Group on the development of the LOTAR NAS 9300-xxx series of Long Term Archival and Retrieval (LOTAR) of standards for MBSE. Our working group is directly supporting PDES/LOTAR working groups to develop the LOTAR for MBSE standards. Our Mou with PDES Inc. enables INCOSE to participate in ISO and LOTAR development with several other standards organizations as shown in the following organization model: LOTAR_Overview

Transformation Enablers

TechOps Domain

798 WG Members

161 Viva Engage Members

56 MBSE for PDES/LOTAR Consortia Members (MBSE-IF)

Established in 1996

Chair

John Nallon

Co-Chairs

Mark Williams

Juan Mendo

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Scope

The TIMLM WG is focused on the interoperability of tools, data, models and processes as they relate to a Systems Engineering process and methods throughout the acquisition and product development life cycles. The TIMLM collaborates with standards organizations such as PDES Inc., LOTAR, other STEP organizations and the INCOSE Standards Development Department to advance the data exchange standards to meet our stakeholders needs.

Goals

To provide the systems engineering community a reliable source of information about tool data exchange and interoperability standards used during the execution of their business processes in the product lifecycle.
To collaborate with standards organizations and other supporting INCOSE Working Groups to characterize systems engineering tool integration and interoperability requirements for tools and data standards for the exchange of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) digital artifacts.
To promote the development, validation and deployment of standards that advance the interoperability, storage, archival and retrieval of digital data and artifacts produced by systems engineering processes.
To provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of information regarding tool interoperability, data exchange, use cases for applying data exchange and interoperability standards and discussing interoperability accomplishments of in our systems engineering community

Activities and Coming Events

PDES MBSE and LOTAR MBSE Workshops are conducted quarterly and are detailed on our Yammer site.
PDES/LOTAR/TIMLM meetings are held weekly every Wednesday from 08:30 to 10:00 AM (Central Time USA) and open to all interested parties.
ISO-10303-AP243 (MoSSEC) has been approved by ISO and released to the public. PDES/INCOSE/LOTAR has embraced this standard for model exchange and is updating all specifications and standards accordingly.
A pre-submittal review of the NAS9300-500 LOTAR for MBSE standard is in review and will be submitted for approval in December 2024. The submittal was extended in order to incorporate all the comments from INCOSE, SAE and PDES reviewers.
A Model Portfolio Management Guideline has been published as an INCOSE product and is available in the INCOSE Store for downloading. It is free to INCOSE Members.
A joint INCOSE/PDES/LOTAR/GPDIS Summit was held September 23-26, 2024. It included presentations and discussions on the impact of MBSE on Digital Threads and Digital Twins. You can find information on this Summit at (https://gpdisonline.com). Please check the GPDIS Website for registration information. Follow this link to see the agenda: GPDIS MBSE Workshop Agenda. Presentations are available on our Viva Engage Site.
Our next event will be the INCSOE International Workshop being held February 1-4, 2025
Followed by the LOTAR 1st Quarter workshop in Hamburg, Germany March 9-13, 2025.

4th Quarter LOTAR MBSE-IF Workshop

The LOTAR MBSE Working Group final workshop for 2024 was a virtual series of meetings held December 3-4

Topics of the presentations and discussions included:

INCOSE IW 2025 participation planning
MBSE-IF update and project planning.
NAS9300 Part 500 Review and tasking to finish for submittal.
Updated LOTAR MBSE Roadmap, deliverables and dependencies.
Demo and feedback of NAS9300 Part515 prototype: the Model Report.
Identified the need for a MBSE semantic metamodel for interoperability and set it as a CASCaDE priority use case.
NAS9300 Release 1 review of Chapter 7 and bibliography for EOY release.
Planning for the Q1 Virtual Workshop and Q2 Workshop in Hamburg, Germany

The presentations from these sessions are available on our Viva Engage Site for your use.

Planned Activities

Continue working with PDES and LOTAR to submit the NAS 9300 series MBSE data standards for publication.
Conduct Quarterly virtual INCOSE/LOTAR/PDES Workshops and 2 PDES/LOTAR in person workshops.
Conduct weekly meetings with PDES/LOTAR/INCOSE working groups with featured guest speakers from other standards organizations, tool vendors and member companies.
Support for the emerging MoSSEC implementations and MBSE Interoperability forum
IW 2025 Workshop in Seville, Spain February 1-4, 2025
LOTAR MBSE Workshop in Hamburg, Germany March 9-13, 2025

Planned Work Products

INCOSE Model Portfolio Management Guide Model
NAS9300 - 500 series MBSE based LOTAR standard.
NAS9300 - 515 the Model Report
Subject Matter presentations on standards and interoperability to other organizations, standards developers, INCOSE Chapters and Working Groups.

Find out more by visiting the TIMLM Working Group Yammer community today!