Simple SysML for Beginners

David Hetherington is a leading Model-Based Systems Engineering(MBSE) consultant serving multiple defense and commercial industry sectors. He has extensive personal experience in designing and leading design teams for both software and hardware covering an unusually broad range of system types. These complex systems have varied from real-time control, to software internationalization, to offshore oil drillships, to enterprise software applications, to automotive radar chipsets, to electronic publishing, and more. In addition to MBSE, he has a strong concentration of domain knowledge in safety, reliability, maintainability, and diagnostics. He uses this broad domain knowledge in combination with his MBSE skills to assist clients at two levels:• Individual Skills - He teaches engineers across a wide variety of disciplines to sharpen their systems thinking and produce higher quality work products by using MBSE tools and techniques to clarify the requirements and objectives of their specialized designs.• Organizational Transformation - He supports executives faced with the challenge of bringing teams with legacy, siloed, "document-centric" development habits into the integrated digital engineering future. David is an active member of:• INCOSE - International Council on Systems Engineering• IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers• SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers• United States Naval Institute David speaks Japanese and German fluently as well as some Chinese and Spanish. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Olivier has an extensive background in electronics, with a special focus on microprocessors. Olivier moved to model-based development more than thirty years ago, first for software engineering, then for systems engineering. He has supported clients in developing rigorous specifications for major rail, automotive, aerospace/defense, medical, and embedded systems projects. During his long career in model-based development, Olivier has had the opportunity to work for several of the companies that have produced top model-based development tools. This experience has given him a nuanced understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each tool, as well as a strong understanding of where users run into difficulties understanding the tools and the modeling languages. He spends much of his time teaching the top SysML tools as well as teaching the Arcadia method and the open source Capella tool that supports it. He also coaches clients in developing their in-house tool methodologies, creates animated training materials, and serves as a mentor to senior product architects. He draws on his deep model-based development experience to help clients develop language and tools best practices all the way through the systems engineering "V" cycle - from the initial concept to field deployment and disposal. Olivier is a frequent conference speaker and serves clients worldwide - Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. He lives near Paris.

Frank holds a degree in communications engineering, as well as a master's degree in electronics design. He worked for many years in the development of embedded real-time systems, gaining crucial intuition about the issues that drive the architecture and design of systems products. In 2001, he joined I-Logix, which was co-founded by David Harel, the inventor of the UML state charts. I-Logix was the initial developer of the Rhapsody product, a Model-Driven Development (MDD) solution. Rhapsody rapidly became the industry-leading Model-Driven Development environment for Systems and Software Engineering. Rhapsody was the spark that ignited Frank's passion for Model-Based Systems and Software Engineering. Since then, Frank has become an expert in the intricate details of the UML and SysML standards. He has also been an enthusiastic and passionate Rhapsody user, trainer, and coach. Frank has supported many customers in the development and realization of their products and systems. As a trainer, he has led several hundred Rhapsody courses and touched the lives and careers of thousands of engineers around the world. The positive feedback from these engineers continues to inspire Frank on his journey though the ever more complex universe of model-based engineering and the emerging digital thread. Frank maintains a YouTube Channel called Rhapsody Guru where he regularly shares his experiences and insights. In recent years, Frank has been supporting client projects involving cross-domain hybrid environments using Rhapsody, CATIA Magic, and Sparx Enterprise Architect, as well as the open source Capella tool that supports the Arcadia method. Frank is committed to his family and likes to spend his free time camping all over Europe with his wife Leila and his daughters Yamina and Myriam, without whose encouragement and patient support this book would not have been possible.