Global Configuration Management with a Cross Engineering Tools approach using Smartfacts
Tag und Uhrzeit: Montag, 27. April 2026, 14:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Modern system engineering requires managing requirements, architecture models, and design artifacts across different specialized tools. Without a clear global cross discipline configuration management (CM) strategy, maintaining traceability, version integrity, and alignment across these artifacts becomes difficult and risky.
This workshop presents practical methods and key principles for configuration and change management of system models in multi-tool environments. Using a Mars Rover development scenario, we illustrate how to define configuration items, establish end-to-end traceability, integrate models across tools, create multi-level baselines, and manage branching/merging and review workflows. The example implementation will be demonstrated with the Smartfacts platform. Through interactive exercises, participants will practice effective change control (such as CCB workflows), learn to plan and assess impacts of changes, and explore how AI technologies such as large language models (LLMs) may influence configuration management practices in model-based systems engineering.
Workshopgestaltung: Presentations, Demo and Group Exercises with a flipchart
Lernziele:
- Understand the basics of global cross discipline configuration and change management.
- Build configuration items (CIs) for system models and create baselines.
- Plan, control, document change, track impact.
- Assess the possible impact of AI/LLMs in System modelling and CM.
Voraussetzungen für die Teilnahme am Workshop: Basic understanding of Systems Engineering
Welches Equipment sollen die Workshopteilnehmer mitbringen? (z.B. Notebook, Tablet, usw.): nothing
Agenda des Workshops:
1. Foundations of Configuration Management (CM)
- Change Management Basics
- Workflow from change request to successful approval.
- Introduction to CM goals, benefits, roles, and key terms.
2. Managing a cross-tool system model
- Variant Management
- Methods for integrating requirements, models, and artifacts from different tools.
3. Cross tool system model demo on Smartfacts
- Multi Parallel Process- Tools: Requirements – Variant Model – Component Models
- Example with Codebeamer, Cameo Systems Modeller and Enterprise Architect integration on Smart-facts.
4. Configuration Management Basics
- Essential CM practices: CI definition, versioning, baselines.
5. Model Configuration Baseline
- Structure, validation, and use of stable model reference states.
6. Global CM with the Mars Rover example (demo)
- How requirements, component, software, and hardware CM work together in practice.
7. Discussion: Impact of AI/LLMs on System modelling and CM
- Opportunities, limitations, and sensible use cases for AI in CM.
Ben Hörömpöly
Ben Hörömpöly has spent the last fifteen years in enterprise software and safety-critical systems engineering, working across the automotive, medical, and aerospace sectors. As Principal Consultant at Kanzen Consult, he focuses on unifying engineering workflows, safety compliance practices, and the toolchains that support them. His career spans software consulting, systems engineering, and regulated ALM environments, giving him a practical and well-rounded perspective on complex lifecycle challenges. Certified in both automotive and avionics development frameworks and fluent in four languages, he brings an international outlook to advancing modern systems engineering.
Andreas Kreß
The software engineer Andreas Kreß has worked as a start-up product owner, requirements team manager and module project manager for critical customer projects in the technology industry. He is the inventor of a widely used SCADA tool and helped set up methods and engineering tool environments in Y2K IT projects, in large government standardization programs for federal tax office applications, and in the development of components for autonomous driving in the automotive sector. He is a connoisseur of the secrets of the art of system development. His focus is on the more advanced methods and tools of regulated and safety-oriented system technology and their support by high-performance tool chains.
