Model Based System Engineering

1. The concept of “common language” or “common vocabulary” is of particular interest in systems engineering and project management.   Why is this concept of such significance to the application of MBSE?
The concept of language and vocabulary is of particular interest in systems engineering and project management because our/these disciplines span the breadth, and interact with all disciplines of science and engineering. Systems have mechanical, electrical, and chemical components and therefore in the process of system engineering, a SE will likely interact with a Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer and a Chemical Engineer.   Entropy to a Chemical engineer may have a slightly different meaning to Mechanical Engineer or Physicist.   Ambiguity in technical ideas, for different domains and fields is common.   Therefore it is crucial that what we communicate is comprehended with precision by all. There are efforts afoot by DOD, INCOSE and Vitech and other major players in the SE field to move towards a discipline standard of technical communication so that everybody shares the same context and meaning of words and ideas. In Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) this is even more significant because in MBSE you are trying to construct models that attempt to replicate system, subsystem and component behaviors, not just understand concepts.   Now the SE or MBSE not only needs to know what other disciplines are talking about but needs to be able to take their technical description and accurately reflect their meaning(values/processes, ideas, entities) in the model. An example of this is software language.   Software language can vary greatly based on which developer made the software. During a system development effort components would be modeled in differing software languages and could not be easily integrated as they using different base codes. Whether it computer languages/codes or just different lingo base on the various engineering/technology domains,   common...