Enhancing integrated design model–based process and engineering tool environment: Towards an integration of functional analysis, operational analysis and knowledge capitalisation into co

This article presents the activities of Thales Alenia Space France in the scope of the continuous improvement of its concurrent engineering practices. It describes an on-going work and proposed solutions to extend the scope of this environment in 0/A/B1 phases with new capabilities to support system engineers work: ？？Capability to define the operational concept and main operational scenarios; ？？Capability to perform functional analysis and function allocation trade-off, enabling the distribution of functions between system segments and sub-systems; capability to produce easily accessible synthesis and dashboard to team and other stakeholders, enabling easy sharing of information and models; ？？Capability to capitalise on equipment data and equipment models. This article will cover both the process aspects and tooling support. It proposes in a first part to justify and describe the proposed evolutions starting from current practices. Then, a second chapter describes the proposed enhancements and finally the last chapter presents the proposed tooling implementation