Model-Based-Systems-Engineering (MBSE) as a Gamechanger in the Development Process of Railway Vehicles

Kurzfassung

For a majority of underperforming railway vehicle development projects, the failure can be traced back to an insufficient handling of the requirements. This exemplifies the risk caused by a missing or inconsistent Systems Engineering (SE) approach. SE and subsequently Model-Based-Systems-Engineering (MBSE) aims to provide the missing link between requirements, functions and architecture and system design. As the awareness of SE is still small in the railway community, so it is decided to implement a MBSE approach as a use-case for a subsystem to demonstrate the benefits.