BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES AND THEIR EFFECTIVE PRACTICE - A CASE STUDY ON NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Insight ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Navas ◽  
Philippe Tannery ◽  
Stephane Bonnet ◽  
Jean-Luc Voirin
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Angel Orellana Postigo ◽  
José Reinaldo Silva

Microgrid is a technically and economically viable opportunity to meet the demands of populations that, for various reasons, do not have access to electricity. The complexity of Smart Grid (SG) systems requires considerable engineering effort in the design process. Designing this type of complex system requires new approaches, methods, concepts and engineering tools. Where, requirements analysis plays a major role in better characterizing, understanding and specifying the domain of application that SG systems should solve. This work presents a systemic proposal based specifically on System Systems (SoS) which anticipates the formalization of requirements, aiming to understand, analyze and design SG within the scope of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). The definition of a microgrid from the SoS perspective is presented in order to provide a complete view of its life cycle. Requirements would be represented in an Objective Oriented  Requirements Engineering (GORE) approach, specifically using visual diagrams based on the Keep All  Objectives Satisfied (KAOS) method, where network operation and control will be formally represented. A case  study for small communities in the equatorial Amazon forest is used as a case study for the proposed method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2455-2464
Author(s):  
O. Bleisinger ◽  
S. Forte ◽  
C. Apostolov ◽  
M. Schmitt

AbstractDeveloping autonomous functions for complex systems leads to high demands on the consideration of dependencies to external actors in the usage phase. In Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), this can be achieved by modelling operational aspects. Operational aspects are model elements and their relationships to each other. In this contribution, modelling of operational aspects with a MBSE-approach will be demonstrated exemplary on a case study related to the development of a yacht with an autonomous docking assistant. Currently modelling operational aspects is not common in the civil sector.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruifeng Yang ◽  
Jianshe Kang ◽  
Zhenya Quan

Nuclear power plants are highly complex systems and the issues related to their safety are of primary importance. Probabilistic safety assessment is regarded as the most widespread methodology for studying the safety of nuclear power plants. As maintenance is one of the most important factors for affecting the reliability and safety, an enhanced preventive maintenance optimization model based on a three-stage failure process is proposed. Preventive maintenance is still a dominant maintenance policy due to its easy implementation. In order to correspond to the three-color scheme commonly used in practice, the lifetime of system before failure is divided into three stages, namely, normal, minor defective, and severe defective stages. When the minor defective stage is identified, two measures are considered for comparison: one is that halving the inspection interval only when the minor defective stage is identified at the first time; the other one is that if only identifying the minor defective stage, the subsequent inspection interval is halved. Maintenance is implemented immediately once the severe defective stage is identified. Minimizing the expected cost per unit time is our objective function to optimize the inspection interval. Finally, a numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed models.


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