Consulting for systems engineering with a focus on functional modeling

Through interdisciplinary development meetings, companies try to coordinate and improve complicated new developments at an early stage and to parallelize their implementation. Today, these coordination meetings are mainly informal. Presentations, 3D models, sketches and rough flow charts are used. In many cases, further collaboration takes place on demand. Functional descriptions are sometimes created initially, but are rarely kept up to date afterwards.

In order to gain an overview of complicated developments, we are convinced that a system must be broken down into several levels and thus abstracted. The resulting function modules can be described in the team using the notation developed by MetaCre8. In addition to the internal structure, the parameters and the behavior of the function are also defined. Following the team modeling, the software development team prepares the details for implementation.

Overall, the modeling effort is worthwhile for the following reasons:

• Function modeling replaces the classic function description.
• This approach leads to fewer errors during new development and therefore accelerates time-to-market.
• A modeling tool with code generation can further significantly reduce the effort required for software implementation.

With a proof-of-concept (PoC), you gain experience of how model-based systems engineering can be integrated into the existing development process. By moderating several functional workshops with your team and your case studies, MetaCre8 will show you which communication and methodological skills are required to be able to carry out modeling independently in the future. This will enable you to determine the training requirements for your team. The clear results of a PoC will help you for internal communication.