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.