Overview of IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering
IBM® Rhapsody® Systems Engineering is a web-based solution designed for systems engineering teams, enabling them to create smarter, more sophisticated, and more competitive solutions for their end users. It transforms increasing design complexities into a competitive advantage.
The inherent nature of systems, whether in their initial design phase or during subsequent upgrades, is characterized by a rapid accumulation of new capabilities outpacing the removal of obsolete ones. This inevitably leads to an escalation in complexity over time. As systems grow more intricate, they become increasingly challenging to comprehend, resulting in heightened unpredictability. Consequently, new behaviors emerge, often accompanied by unintended and potentially catastrophic side effects. However, this complexity is not without its merits. By adeptly harnessing and managing the intricacies of complex systems, organizations can develop smarter products, offer unique and differentiated solutions, and therefore improve their competitive edge in their respective market.
Rhapsody Systems Engineering is based on several key technologies briefly described below that allow customers to leverage the benefits on complexity while mitigating its associated risks.
Key features of Rhapsody Systems Engineering
- Built to support SysML V2
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Rhapsody Systems Engineering supports the new SysML V2 standard, helping practitioners design complex systems graphically, with dedicated graphic editors, customizable browsers and a configurable set of completeness and correctness checks. It also supports working with SysML V2 textual representations of the models.
To provide a consistent experience and modeling guidelines within and across projects in an organization, tools and methods experts can customize the tool to support the specific processes and workflows needed. This customization includes user-defined extensions, by using JavaScript or Python, for example that use the various APIs that are provided with Rhapsody Systems Engineering, extending well beyond the APIs defined by the SysML V2 standard.
- Web-based solution
- Rhapsody Systems Engineering offers modern and intuitive user experiences and workflows for everyone in systems engineering teams. This comprehensive support includes systems engineering practitioners and reviewers, domain architects, compliance and security officers, design partners and suppliers. A web browser and a URL is all you need to access the tool. Administrators benefit from it too, since the product is delivered as containers, easing the speed and simplicity of installation and product configuration.
- Harmony model-based engineering
- Harmony model-based engineering (HarmonyMBE) is an iteration of the Harmony workflow that simplifies model development and analysis workflows, providing a prescriptive process empowered by automations that reduce the amount of manual work required to create correct and consistent models that are based on the SysML V2 languages and at the size and complexity of real-word systems and systems-of-systems. HarmonyMBE is designed to simplify the use of SysML V2 and streamline complex model building tasks. For example, on creating a new project, the HarmonyMBE automation automatically builds a predefined model structure and layers, which helps you to quickly set up your projects with the main steps and placeholders of the Harmony process.
- Part of the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management solution
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Rhapsody Systems Engineering integrates with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management's open, federated, versioned digital thread for engineering artifacts, including its support for Global Configurations. It integrates through open services for lifecycle collaboration (OSLC) or other APIs with other downstream engineering domains, such as software design with production code generation, using IBM Rhapsody Developer and Rhapsody Designer, allowing customers to manage cross domain digital threads while bridging the gap between systems engineering and downstream software engineering using the unified modeling language (UML) or AUTOSAR Classic or Adaptive for automotive applications.
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