Last week we attended the yearly systems engineering conference https://www.tdse.org/ of the German chapter of INCOSE (GfSE). This event is de-facto the GoTo event for all stakeholders in Germany (and beyond) who are interested in the latest and greatest evolution in the field of systems engineering. A key part of this event is the to meet the continuously growing community and exchange with subject matter experts as well as leaders in systems engineering from industry and research. If you missed this event you should plan to be there next year!
With 400+ participants this event was well attended and distributed across a 3 day program. Dassault also attended as a sponsor and we were present in 3 areas: a booth including a nice end-to-end demo on our complete model based systems engineering portfolio as well as two tutorials executed by DS systems engineering specialists.
The two tutorials done on the first day were focused on model based FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis) as one of the activities to be done for safety critical systems. With CATIA Magic and the reliability analyzer plugin users can run an FMEA on the system architecture to ensure you keep continuity between what is specified in the architecture and what is analyzed in the FMEA (no stupid manual transfer of architecture and FMEA between different tools any longer). In the 3DEXPERIENCE platform we also provide an FMEA solution which serves as a complementary addition to the system architecture level analysis, as in 3DEXPERIENCE you can conduct the analysis also on a physical product structure level going down to component level. In both cases a major intent of an FMEA is derive new requirements e.g. to specify what diagnostics measure we need to implement into the system to be capable to detect a functional failure (which is sometimes very tricky to determine). The tutorial was executed by @YH @AT@TKand @AS.
The other inspiring tutorial was done by @CBand @JSreflecting how to build the mindset of a systems engineer which is an important part to make the introduction of systems engineering into an enterprise successful. Both tutorials together represented a key aspect of systems engineering: COLLABORATION!
Our booth including our demo turned out to be a frequently visited market place where we served on the one side visitors interested in our solutions and what new things we bring to the table to help companies solve their daily engineering problems with our system engineering solutions and beyond. In addition, our booth served as central hub for existing and new partners to meet and greet and exchange on joint perspective how to jointly help the community to drive the global adoption of systems engineering across all industries. The visitors feedback revealed we are bringing valuable solutions to the hands of an engineer.
Thanks to all involved helping to make our participation this year so successful as well helping to enrich the global systems engineering community with advanced knowledge. Also thanks to the visitors at our booth to share with us your perspective on the current state and future evolution of systems engineering in your companies as well as what you believe the market still needs from tool vendors such as Dassault to make the field of systems engineering even more attractive for new talents.
