SEMANTIC INTEGRATION OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN DATA IN AN INDUSTRIAL SETTING

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Jones, David H.

Affiliations: Boeing Shared Services Group Applied Research and Technology Seattle, Washington U.S.A.

Abstract: Companies with complex, safety-critical products aircraft, power plants, automobiles, satellites, and spacecraft increasingly use computer-based models to design, analyze, and simulate the product. While model-based development has numerous, well documented benefits, the current practice has spawned significant new problems: large quantities of model data are locked in tool-proprietary representations, preventing efficient processes, limiting the choice of best-of-breed tools, and engendering inconsistent data. The paper describes an applied research prototype whose goal is to demonstrate effective data sharing between processes and tools used in designing commercial airplane systems. The prototype makes use of selected data interchange standards and repository technology to interchange data across two engineering specialty areas functional analysis and reliability analysis. The underlying issue described in this paper is the resolution of semantic heterogeneity of multi-disciplinary systems design data.

Journal: Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 15-26, 2000