Digital Availability of Product Information for Collaborative Engineering of Spacecraft

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a system to collect product information from manufacturers and make it available in tools that are used for concurrent design of spacecraft. The planning of a spacecraft needs experts from different disciplines, like propulsion, power, and thermal. Since these different disciplines rely on each other there is a high need for communication between them, which is often realized by a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) process and corresponding tools. We show by comparison that the product information provided by manufacturers often does not match the information needed by MBSE tools on a syntactic or semantic level. The information from manufacturers is also currently not available in machine-readable formats. Afterwards, we present a prototype of a system that makes product information from manufacturers directly available in MBSE tools, in a machine-readable way.

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The different versions of the original document can be found in:

• http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12548

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30949-7_9

• https://elib.dlr.de/129607/1/1905.12548.pdf