SYSTEMS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ENGINEERING RESOURCES RESOURCES Useful artifacts to improve your SE effectiveness DE, DE and More DE By PPI’s Robert Halligan FIE Aust CPEng IntPE(Aus) Indications are that engineering is in the early stages of a Digital Engineering (DE) revolution. Similar to other sources, PPI defines Digital Engineering as a transdisciplinary integrated approach to engineering that creates and uses computerreadable models and other digital data in the conduct and support of systemrelated activities throughout the lifecycle of a system. This emerging DE revolution is reflected in the devotion to DE of the entire March 2022 edition (Volume 25, No. 1) of the INCOSE systems engineering practitioners magazine, INSIGHT. The March 2022 INSIGHT articles are: 1. On the Road with Digital Engineering The authors provide a historical perspective of how the digital engineering concept evolved in the United States Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)), leading to launch in 2018 of its strategy to introduce digital engineering. Insights are offered on the lessons learned. 2. Digital Engineering Measures: Research and Guidance This article describes research conducted by the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) in collaboration with a government/industry Digital Engineering Measures Working Group to create the first formal measurement framework for digital transformation. The authors describe the research, formation of a causal measurement model, and initial specification of candidate measures. 3. Systems Modeling Language (SysML v2) Support for Digital Engineering This article contains much valuable information on SysML v2 that we have not seen in print before. 4. Being Digital: Why Addressing Culture and Creating a Digital Mindset are Critical to Successful Transformation The paper stresses the importance in digital transformation of cultural change occurring in synchrony with the inherent technological changes. 5. Constructing an Authoritative Source of Truth in a Changing Information Landscape This article describes many non-obvious issues including those related to requirements, best practices, and available tool capabilities in building and maintaining an Authoritative Source of Truth (ASoT), an ASoT being a fundamental ingredient of a Digital Thread implementation within Digital Engineering. 6. Creating the Digital Thread The author describes approaches to creating the digital thread, including detailed explanations of many types of trace links and their properties. An example digital thread well supports the descriptions.
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