MBSE to Model Based Enterprise / Engineering (MBE)

Today, industries work on extending the MBSE being a “capable systems engineering tool” towards being a complete digital transformation so called Model Based Enterprise or Engineering (MBE). In this whitepaper, we did not differentiate MBSE with MBE but discussed MBSE under the light of MBE where it is a broader and more capable approach made of multiple technologies to harness physical and virtual aspects of complete product lifecycle.

MBE - Model Based Enterprise/Engineering at the center of a product lifecycle

The diagram above attempts explain the MBE approach under a single setting divided into physical and virtual aspects of a complete product lifecycle. In virtual, it includes abstract concepts such as “dependencies” implying “relationships” or “configurations” both dynamic and static, whereas models and simulations are from all disciplines of engineering, management and operations.

At a high level, the physical part is about production, testing/Q&A, delivery, operations including product disposal and recycling. Under this level, there are plenty of variables, which are relatively independent such as stakeholders, services, products in physical or tools, infrastructure, requirements and data in the virtual part.

Especially, the “data” piece is critical as it is both “big data” and very diverse data including structured and non-structured data.

Under the abstracted definitions of ontologies, including semantics and agnostic relationships, and metadata standardizing the virtual connectivity. In the physical “realm”, we can talk about connectivity in global scale; high throughput ingestion and streaming, databases; relational, non-relational or object storage.

All of those aspects are connected via Digital Continuity with the help of Digital Threads and Orchestration with APIs, messaging, events and business logics as to be discussed in the following chapters.