Implementing model-based systems engineering based on shared services: Concepts for industrial application

Two mega trends in product engineering require a re-thinking of established ways of working: The technical evolution to intelligent technical systems and the re-design of value creation networks, now integrating partners from all over the world. Due to this, there is a growing interest in the Systems Engineering (SE) approach. Yet, the implementation of SE in organizational structures is challenging for enterprises outside aircraft industry. Friedenthal suggests the deployment of a multidisciplinary SE-team responsible for requirements, architecture and analysis of the system as well as integrating and testing. We expect the shared service concept known from administration as promising to generate synergistic effects for a distributed value creation: Shared services centralize a subset of existing decentralized business functions in semi-autonomous business units. This promotes amongst others value generation, quality and improved service for internal customers. We present a first approach for implementing Model-Based Systems Engineering based on Shared Services