Digital Data package (DDP)

Summary

The lecture introduces the Digital Data Package (DDP), a consortium project involving 15 participants aiming to facilitate cross-company and cross-domain collaboration throughout the product lifecycle for systems engineering. The DDP addresses the lack of interdisciplinary communication by consolidating various data standards into a cohesive package, enhancing decision-making and design processes. The presentation covers the DDP's development, technical aspects, and its practical application, highlighting its agility, traceability, and communication capabilities, with future plans for standardization and expansion.

Takeaways

• 🌟 The Digital Data Package (DDP) is a consortium project involving 15 participants from various sectors aiming to support cross-company and cross-domain collaboration in systems engineering throughout the product lifecycle using linked MBSE standards.
• 📈 The DDP addresses the challenge of interdisciplinary communication and data exchange, which is often overlooked in current standards, by creating a comprehensive package that includes all relevant standards and their interconnections.
• 🛠️ The DDP is designed to be used across the entire V-model, incorporating a variety of relevant standards to ensure effective communication and data exchange at different stages of the product lifecycle.
• 🔍 The DDP development process involved an intensive analysis of the current situation, identification of use cases, development of a reference process, creation of a data model, and building of demonstrators through collaboration with other groups.
• 🔄 The DDP working group operates in an agile manner with monthly sprints, full-day workshops, and regular updates with other groups, which contributes to its success and efficiency.
• 🔗 The DDP focuses on content rather than documents, creating links within and across formats to present a comprehensive overview of the data, enhancing traceability and communication.
• 📚 The DDP integrates a wide range of authoring systems and proprietary formats into a few standardized documents, simplifying the process of handling diverse data types across the product lifecycle.
• 📈 The DDP architecture includes a functional data model that sorts and maps content from various standards in an intuitive way, facilitating easy navigation and access to necessary information.
• 🔑 The DDP allows for deep collaboration by linking to specific content, enabling users to jump directly to relevant documents or 3D geometries within the package for detailed discussions and analysis.
• 🔮 The DDP is set to be implemented in practical use cases, such as with R4L and Daimler, to test its effectiveness in simulation phases for early design stages, indicating a move towards real-world application.
• 🚀 Looking ahead, the DDP team is focusing on documentation, standardization, and collaboration with other groups, with plans to expand its use and continue development to accommodate more use cases and standards.

Q & A

What is the main purpose of the Digital Data Package (DDP)?

The main purpose of the DDP is to support cross-company and cross-domain collaboration during the entire product lifecycle for systems engineering, based on linked MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering) standards.

What is the significance of having a Digital Data Package in the context of digital transformation?

The significance lies in the ability to improve the quality and effectiveness of decision and design processes by facilitating interdisciplinary data exchange, which is currently lacking, thus enhancing the overall system description and communication between companies.

How does the DDP address the challenge of interdisciplinary links in system descriptions?

The DDP consolidates various standards into a single package and connects them with interdisciplinary links, allowing for a comprehensive view of the system and enabling effective communication between different company stakeholders.

What is the structure of the DDP in terms of its development and collaboration?

The DDP is a consortium project involving 15 participants from various sectors, including OEMs, suppliers, vendors, and consulting areas. It is developed through an agile approach with monthly sprints, full-day workshops, and continuous collaboration with other ProSTEP iViP groups.

How does the DDP ensure traceability and communication within the package?

The DDP provides a content overview that is linked to all the package information, allowing users to navigate and communicate effectively. It also includes a mapping between collaboration intent and the content needed for it, enabling easy navigation and understanding of the system.

What is the role of the ProSTEP iViP Association in the DDP project?

The ProSTEP iViP Association supports the DDP working group by providing tools for scrum planning, document management, and facilitating the sharing of documentation and regular updates with other groups working on different standards.

How does the DDP differ from the Integrated Collaboration Framework (ICF) working group?

While the DDP focuses on cross-company data exchange with linked data, the ICF is more about internal data collaboration within companies and sharing on cloud-based platforms.

What are the technical requirements and formats chosen for the DDP?

The DDP uses an own DDP XML for data dictionary models and HTML5 for presentation formats, chosen for their ability to fulfill the technical requirements identified through a questionnaire and prioritization process.

Can the DDP be extended to include data from other arbitrary applications used within a company?

Yes, the DDP can be extended to include data from other applications as long as they can be accommodated to the standard documents focused on by the SSB (Standardization Strategy Board) working group.

What is the future outlook for the DDP project?

The future outlook includes putting the DDP into practice with use cases, focusing on documentation and recommendation to establish it as a standard, collaborating with other ProSTEP iViP groups, and continuing to develop the project with other relevant standards and use cases.

How does the DDP handle the quality information framework?

The DDP intends to consider the quality information framework as part of its ongoing development and open works, ensuring that the validation and verification processes are well integrated.